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One the first stop of their "Sink or Swim" tour, Quinton "Yung Trybez" Nyce and Darren "Young D" Metz of the Snotty Nose Rez Kids performed their new single "I'm Good" at Mississippi Studios in Portland, Oregon on September 7, 2022. (Photo by Jarrette Werk / Underscore News)
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Surviving the pandemic with the Snotty Nose Rez Kids

By Underscore News
Smoke rises from a processing mill at a palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia, on Sept. 8, 2018. The punishing effects of palm oil on the environment have been decried for years. (AP Photo)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Government pardons, environmental concerns and words that matter

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Three national Indigenous leaders held a news conference after the Pope’s speech to call for maintaining a unified front in dealing with the boarding school history. They are, from left, Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald; Métis National Council President Cassiday Caron; and Natan Obed, national president of the Inuit Tapirit Kanatami. (Photo by Miles Morrisseau/ICT)
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Indigenous leaders from Canada will attend Queen's funeral

By Miles Morrisseau
Melanie Howarth, center, places a rose for a friend who lives in Oakville, Canada, on top of a Canadian flag as thousands of mourners lay flowers and pay their respects near the gates of Buckingham Palace in London on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Indigenous people in Canada conflicted over death of Queen Elizabeth II

By Miles Morrisseau
This 2017 photo shows Dragon Boat races in Darling Harbour in Syndney, Australia. (Photo by Marc Dalmulder via Creative Commons)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Dragon boats, environmental woes and police misconduct

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
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Young Inuit chart their changing landscape

By Hakai Magazine
Investigators gather in front of the scene of a stabbing in Weldon, Saskatchewan, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. A series of stabbings at a the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby village of Weldon left 10 people dead and at least 18 others wounded. One of the suspects, Damien Sanderson, 31, was found dead Monday but his brother, Myles Sanderson, 30, remained at large late Monday. (Heywood Yu/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Canada rampage suspect death prompts fresh investigation

By The Associated Press
The U.S. criminal case against acclaimed Canadian author and comedienne Dawn Dumont Walker has been put on hold while she addresses charges filed against her in Canada.  She was arrested Aug. 5, 2022, in Oregon City after Canadian officials said she attempted to fake her death and that of her son to flee Canada. She had been set for a hearing Sept. 7 at the federal courthouse (shown here) in Portland, but officials announced they were putting the charges on hold for now.  (Photo by Steve Morgan via Creative Commons)
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Acclaimed author fights charges in Canada

By Karina Brown and Miles Morrisseau
Investigators examine the crime scene near a memorial of flowers outside the home of Wes Petterson in Weldon, Saskatchewan, Canada, on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. Petterson, 77, was among 10 people killed in a series of stabbings in the area on Sunday. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)
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Canada grieves after ‘horrific’ massacre in isolated Cree community

By Miles Morrisseau
Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore speaks while Regina Police Chief Evan Bray, left, looks on during a press conference at RCMP "F" Division Headquarters in Regina, Saskatchewan, on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson allegedly stabbed and killed 10 people between James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, Saskatchewan, on Sunday morning, and the pair are presently at large. (Michael Bell/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Fears high as Canadian police search for stabbing suspect

By The Associated Press
Map of incident location. (Google maps)
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Mother of two among 10 dead, 15 injured in violent Saskatchewan stabbing spree

By APTN National News
Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore speaks while Regina Police Chief Evan Bray, left, looks on during a press conference at RCMP "F" Division Headquarters in Regina, Saskatchewan, on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson allegedly stabbed and killed 10 people between James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, Saskatchewan, on Sunday morning, and the pair are presently at large. (Michael Bell/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Multiple stabbings reported on James Smith Cree Nation

By The Associated Press
Fishermen move their wooden boat between the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. A ban on fishing in Tonle Sap has caused an outcry because legal fisherman are being caught up in the enforcement efforts. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Iron mines, fishing bans and honors for ‘Uncle Jimmy’

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
The U.S. criminal case against acclaimed Canadian author and comedienne Dawn Dumont Walker has been put on hold while she addresses charges filed against her in Canada.  She was arrested Aug. 5, 2022, in Oregon City after Canadian officials said she attempted to fake her death and that of her son to flee Canada. She had been set for a hearing Sept. 7 at the federal courthouse (shown here) in Portland, but officials announced they were putting the charges on hold for now.  (Photo by Steve Morgan via Creative Commons)
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Celebrated Canadian author accused of kidnapping son, faking their deaths

By Miles Morrisseau
Paddlers aboard three Maori waka canoes prepare to salute the King Tuheitia and others on the Waikato River during celebrations on Aug. 21, 2007, for the first anniversary of the coronation of the king at Turangawaewae Marae in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand. At the annual celebration on Aug. 20, 2022, the king called for politicians to stop using Maori issues for political gain. (AP Photo/NZPA, Stephen Barker)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: A king speaks out, Indigenous justice and help for horse people

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Pedro Josse Velasco Tumina, waves the flag of his indigenous people, outside the hotel where the annual general meeting of paper giant Smurfit Kappa was taking place on Friday, April 29, 2022, in Dublin, Ireland. Tumina traveled all the way from Colombia to demand the return of his ancestral lands from Smurfit Kappa, which operates paper plantations across the Central American nation. (Stephen S T Bradley/AP Images for SumOfUs)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Child welfare, saving primates and backlash from farmers

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Susan Aglukark is the most celebrated Inuit musical artist in Canadian history, having won four Juno Awards in 11 nominations since the release of her debut album, "Arctic Rose, in the early 1990s. (Photo courtesy of Susan Aglukark)
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Canada’s ‘Arctic Rose’ Susan Aglukark continues her epic journey

By Miles Morrisseau
Workers walk in front of logs waiting to be transported deep in the forest of Baram region in Sarawak state, Malaysia, in this file photo from Dec. 12, 2007. In 2022, however, the Penan Indigenous community apparently convinced at least one logging company to pull out of the area. The Penan people had filed a police complaint against Samling Timber and was preparing to blockade the area when, on July 15, 2022, they realized Samling had pulled out the area. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Logging victory, land payback and world tattoo expo

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Shuar Indigenous men listen to Ecuador's speakers at the opening of a new village, Comunidad del Milenio Panacocha in Ecuador's Amazon region, on Jan. 16, 2014, in this file photo. The Shuar people in 2022 finally won national protections for some of their lands in the ancestral Tiwi Nunka Forest, which provides a home  and sustenance for the Shuar Indigenous community of El Kiim.(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa/FILE)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Climate change, landback and another prison death

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Pope Francis looks at a woman wearing a flag with the slogan Every Child Matters" on it at the end of a meeting with Indigenous people in Quebec City on Friday, July 29, 2022, part of his papal visit across Canada (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Pope visits Nunavut for final apology of his Canadian tour

By Associated Press
People displays a banner during Pope Francis mass at the National Shrine of Saint Anne de Beaupré in Quebec City, Canada, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Pope Francis celebrates Mass in Quebec and gives marching orders to the country's priests, deacons and religious sisters. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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'Rescind the Doctrine' protest greets pope in Canada

By Associated Press
Si Pih Koh, Cree, who sang an emotional protest to Pope Francis with tears streaming down her face in Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada on July 25, 2022, was at peace by the time she followed the Pope to Lac Ste. Anne on Tuesday, July 26, 2022. (Photo by Miles Morrisseau/ICT)
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Papal Visit: Singer at peace after captivating world with protest song

By Miles Morrisseau
Local communities have been banned for three months from entering mangrove forests like this one in Sundarban in Bangladesh, shown in 2009, to protect wildlife during breeding seasons. But 59 people were arrested in the forest in June in an attempt to feed their families. (Photo by Alamgir Hossain/USAID Biodiversity & Forestry via Creative Commons)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Apologies, arrests and accolades

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
People watch for Pope Francis to arrive for mass in Edmonton, during his Papal visit across Canada on Tuesday July 26, 2022. Pope Francis apologized to the Indigenous communities for the Roman Catholic Church's role in the residential school system. (Jason Franson /The Canadian Press via AP)
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Pope honors grandparents after Indigenous apology

By The Associated Press