Grand Entry at the Black Hills Powwow in Rapid City, S.D. As I sit at my grandmother’s oval-shaped wooden table, I feel a warm summer breeze through the open window. I ask her again how to pronounce ...

What do we mean when we say “indigenous”? In biology, a plant or animal is indigenous to a place if it has adapted so well to the environment after millions of years of evolution. In social science, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. Released in late 2022, the 46-page guidance document ...

Virginia Gewin is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon. Although racial-justice initiatives around the world have sparked a renewed focus on the need to recruit and retain more people from minority ...

Lara A. Jacobs, editor; Oregon State University Press, 2025; 440 pages; $39.95. In recent years, in Alaska and elsewhere, Indigenous knowledge has found respect and inclusion in scientific research ...

As the world grapples with adapting to a warming planet, Indigenous Peoples are experiencing unique climate-related challenges exacerbated by centuries of having their land overtaken by settlers and ...

There are an estimated 476 million indigenous peoples in the world, living across 90 countries. They speak an overwhelming majority of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages and represent 5,000 ...

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As the world gathers this week in Addis Ababa for the second stocktake of the U.N. Food Systems Summit (UNFSS+4), the urgency of transforming food systems into more resilient, sustainable and ...