Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the 1940s are being returned to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island ~humanities.history Article 518 words 8 votes
Navajo code talker who helped allies win Second World War dies aged 107 ~humanities.history Article 539 words 30 votes
Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States ~humanities.history Video 23:22, published Aug 3 2024 9 votes
National Museum of Denmark is handing over an iconic cloak belonging to an indigenous group in Brazil at a ceremony being attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ~humanities.history Article 338 words 14 votes
12,000-year-old Aboriginal sticks may be evidence of the oldest known culturally transmitted ritual in the world ~humanities.history Article 759 words 16 votes
The Sámi museum Siida in Finland was awarded the top prize at this year's European Museum of the Year Awards ~humanities.history Article 467 words 9 votes
Northern Sámi, a language spoken in the Arctic, has more than 300 words for snow and a special word for "frightened reindeer" – can it survive in a warmer world? ~humanities.languages Article 19 votes
The endangered languages of New York ~humanities.languages Article 1638 words, published Feb 22 2024 16 votes
The tragic story of this famous meteorite and the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him ~humanities.history Video 12:44 14 votes
How Denmark destroyed Greenland: Brief history of Denmark's colonialism in Greenland ~humanities.history Video 25:20 17 votes
The Florentine Codex, the oldest Indigenous encyclopedia, is now fully online ~humanities.history Article 1275 words 21 votes
In Kenya, a group of conservation scientists confront the cultural tradition of an indigenous tribe Article 1452 words, published Oct 13 2023 16 votes
North American bison slaughter left lasting impact on Indigenous peoples ~humanities.history Article 1183 words 31 votes
Navigating the ethics of ancient human DNA research archaeology anthropology ethics Article 2434 words, published Jan 19 2023 1 vote
Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why. ~humanities.history Article 5505 words 3 votes
Greenland offers a roadmap for how to get Inuktut taught in Nunavut's schools ~humanities.history Article 862 words 3 votes
Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi ~humanities.history Article 997 words 4 votes
The ingenious ancient technology concealed in the shallows ~humanities.history Article 3578 words 7 votes
Decolonizing Idaho’s road signs - A new effort will add Indigenous history to historical markers across the state ~humanities.history Article 1374 words, published Oct 26 2021 4 votes
This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first US Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later. ~humanities.history Article 1774 words 8 votes
Roads into Norway will get new signs with the country name also written in the indigenous Sámi language depending on the region ~humanities.languages Article 218 words 10 votes
The history of the Inuit peoples, the world's most extreme survivors Video 12:02, published May 27 2020 4 votes
Anne Barton, the great-granddaughter of Australia's first prime minister Sir Edmund Barton, has thrown her support behind a campaign to remove his statue from an Indigenous burial site ~humanities.history Article 640 words 7 votes
Report reveals Rio Tinto knew the significance of 46,000-year-old rock caves six years before it blasted them ~humanities.history Article 1066 words 10 votes
Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction ~humanities.languages Article 12 votes
Oslo's city council wants the Norwegian capital to have an official name in Sámi ~humanities.languages Article 300 words 4 votes
Inuit combine nine different Inuktitut scripts in one standard system language Article 682 words 7 votes
Navajo code talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories ~humanities.history Article 926 words, published Nov 27 2017 11 votes
Sweden to return remains of twenty-five Sámi people after more than half a century – historic event aimed at mending ties with the community ~humanities.history Link 7 votes
The last days of John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed in November 2018 by the uncontacted tribe on North Sentinel Island religion Article 10 830 words, published Jul 24 2019 11 votes
Ancient indigenous aquaculture site Budj Bim added to UNESCO World Heritage list ~humanities.history Article 557 words 8 votes
Is it time for truth and reconciliation in the US? ~humanities.history Article 1255 words, published Feb 16 2014 9 votes
This land is whose land? Indian country and the shortcomings of settler protest ~humanities.history Article 2937 words, published Jun 14 2019 4 votes
When the Māori first settled New Zealand, they hunted flightless, 500-pound birds ~humanities.history Article 1041 words 12 votes
Budj Bim indigenous eel trap site on verge of world heritage listing ~humanities.history Article 562 words 4 votes
Hey, that's our stuff: Masaai tribespeople tackle Oxford's Pitt Rivers museum anthropology Article 1616 words 14 votes
Cultural activist from Guyana's Wapishana tribe tries to revive a near-extinct language ~humanities.languages Article 1298 words 6 votes
Found: The earliest European image of Aboriginal Australians ~humanities.history Article 978 words 4 votes