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QandA: Colleen Thurston (Choctaw), on Her New Short Film About the 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz Island

Non-profit news outlet Retro Report recently released a short film, , about the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island, which sparked a wave of Native American activism in the 1970s. Native News Online sat down with the film’s producer, Colleen Thurston (Choctaw Nation), to discuss how the occupation of Alcatraz was the beginning of the modern Indigenous rights era, what inspired her to create this film, and what she would like Native and non-Native audiences to gain from watching. ....

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Long after Indigenous activists flee Russia, they continue to face government pressure to remain silent

More than six years after Pavel Sulyandziga, an Indigenous activist from Russia, left the country to seek political asylum in the US, he continues to face harassment by the Russian government. ....

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Trailblazing PhD student honored for pioneering East Asian anthropology research | University of Hawaiʻi System News

Yi-Yu Lai won the 2023 Outstanding Graduate Paper Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology. ....

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"The Future of the Amazon": UCSB's Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies hosts international conference

Dozens of scholars, researchers, activists and policymakers from institutions across the globe arrived at UC Santa Barbara for a three-day international conference from Oct. 25-27, aimed at discussing the crucial questions at the heart of geopolitical, economic and environmental futures across the “Global South,” with an emphasis on the Amazon region. The conference, titled “The ....

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70 Tourists Detained On Riverboat In Peru To Be Released

A group of tourists on a river boat cruise in the Peruvian Amazon were detained Thursday by Indigenous activists protesting an oil spill. ....

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