A medical student with a passion for improving health in remote communities has won the AMA Indigenous Peoples' Medical Scholarship for 2008.AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, awarded the scholarship to Ms Gemma Johnston, a medical student at The University of Western Australia.
The Crow Nation welcomed Sen. Barack Obama on Monday afternoon before thousands of people, marking the Democratic presidential candidate's first campaign visit to a U.S. reservation.
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples last Sept. 13, with Japan among the 144 member states voting in favor. The U.N. estimates there are... Read more ...
RANCHO EL PENASCO, Sonora, Mexico – Indigenous Peoples from Canada, the United States and Northern Mexico are asked to bring their concerns and issues to the Zapatistas’ North American Summit, Oct. 8 – 9, 2007.
Chevron should stop hiding behind its bogus public relations campaign about protecting the environment and start putting its record profits to work by cleaning up the billions of gallons of toxic waste it deliberately dumped into Ecuador's rainforest, causing hundreds of deaths to indigenous peoples, said environmental activist and lawyer Pablo Fajardo in Quito, in response to Chevron's ...
