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One of the best known indigenous and environmental rights leaders was murdered in her hometown in Honduras. Renee Montagne talks to human rights activist Annie Bird about Berta Cáceres' death.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Canadian Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Carolyn Bennett about research that indicates as many as 4000 indigenous women have been killed or disappeared.

The Marcus Performing Arts Center recently hosted an inaugural Native Heritage Celebration to expose the community to Indigenous cultures.

The InterAmerican Commission for Human Rights had called on Honduras to give Cáceres protection. Local media cite police as saying she was killed during a robbery at a house they were not guarding.

Many Native American languages are endangered. With the help of his mentor, a 12-year-old in Michigan hopes to help preserve his language through robotics.

Indigenous leaders are speaking with Pope Francis about abuses committed against them by Catholic priests and school workers.

The Canadian government has agreed to pay more than $30 billion to compensate Indigenous children who were taken away from their families and put into the child welfare system.

All across the country, people are re-creating, reinterpreting, acting out history in some way. These living historians remember the past — and they don't mind repeating it.

Alice Furlaud (FUR-low) begins a series of "postcards" on the ost-World War Two period. In today's segment, Alice describes how her usband-to-be, who served in the Marines during the War, learned of the iroshima bomb and his relief at being spared from invading Japan.

More than 7.5 million Filipinos got COVID vaccines in just three days this week — an impressive milestone in the country's battle against the pandemic.