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Protests by indigenous peoples against a planned gas pipeline have shut down rail traffic across eastern Canada, causing chaos for shippers and travelers.

NPR food and health correspondent Allison Aubrey joins us to talk about the myth that the explosion in popularity in quinoa has deprived the indigenous people of the Andes of their share.

Throughline host Rund Abdelfatah brings us the story of the origins of chocolate.

Climate change is transforming the Arctic, and putting indigenous communities in Alaska at risk.

Immigration is a hot-button topic, but it is not a new hot-button topic. From the time the first Europeans displaced the indigenous peoples in this…

Native American writer Tanaya Winder has been thinking about the Thanksgiving story of Pilgrims and Indians, especially as the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in North Dakota continue.

Sandra Guzmán once heard an alarming statistic: Every 14 days, an Indigenous language dies around the world. So she created a new multilingual project centered on Latin American women.

For a few minutes Saturday, the Moon will line up between the Earth and sun and block out all but the sun's outer edge. For many Indigenous cultures, a solar eclipse honors tradition.

Investigators are sifting through the remains of Brazil's National Museum, after a massive fire Sunday. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with anthropologist Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima, who fears his research on Brazil's indigenous cultures is gone.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Ashley Hemmers who lives on the Fort Mojave reservation, which encompasses areas of Arizona, Nevada and California, about climate change's impact on Indigenous communities.