Indigenous

Topic description and stories

Study uncovers earliest evidence of humans using fire to shape the landscape of Tasmania

15 Nov 2024

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier...

Map discovery: American ‘hero’ plotted massive land grab and broke peace treaty

07 Feb 2022

A newly decoded map shows that the famous explorer William Clark planned the theft of 10.5 million acres of Indigenous land in Missouri, USA in the...

The great university land-grab

06 Apr 2020

Over 50 American universities built their fortunes using 11 million acres of Indian land, signed over amid violence, corruption and coercion. A major...

A head-hunter's skull from Nagaland which was worn on the chest of a Konyak warrior who had captured an enemy head.

Another India exhibition gives voice to India’s most marginalised communities

08 Mar 2017

Hundreds of objects which tell the story of 100 million of India’s most marginalised citizens – its Indigenous and Adivasi people – are to go on...

Enawenê-nawê men check basket and bark traps for fish before reinserting them into the weir’s upriver face

Man v fish in the Amazon rainforest

11 Nov 2016

The Enawenê-nawê people of the Amazon rainforest make beautifully engineered fishing dams. Living alongside this indigenous community, Dr Chloe Nahum...