>CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Aborigines in white body paint danced and sang traditional songs in Australia’s national Parliament on Tuesday in a historic ceremony many hoped would mark a new era of ...

LONDONLONDON — Four Aboriginal spears that were taken to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago were returned Tuesday to Australia’s Indigenous community at a ceremony in Cambridge ...

During the 2000 Sydney Olympics, millions watched a figure appear that looked as ancient as it was otherworldly. The Wandjina — a traditional Aboriginal sky spirit has a mouthless face, huge eyes, and ...

The practice of finger-cutting among the Dani tribe of Indonesia is indeed real, albeit increasingly rare. When grief strikes the Dani people of Papua, Indonesia, women express their sorrow through a ...

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games are now memory. But they were also in memory. To me, a historian of American Indian history, the opening and closing of the Games provides a profound example of how ...

A local council in New South Wales has vowed to stop flying Indigenous flags following a tight vote to change protocols.

Winners for this year’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker and Practitioner Excellence Awards have been ...

If you’re tuning in to the Paris Olympics, you probably aren’t just looking forward to the feats of sporting excellence – you probably caught the cultural spectacle of the opening ceremony, too. These ...

Borderlands e-journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, The Politics of Suffering (2015), pp. 1-6 (6 pages) In this brief memorial essay, we pay tribute to the late Uncle Ray Jackson, President of the Indigenous ...