Pacific nation of Nauru wants to change its name as it moves on from colonial past

Island may soon be called Naoero – an Indigenous name that honours the country’s heritage and identity ...
Grist

A Biden effort to conserve oceans is leaving out Indigenous peoples, report finds

President Biden’s administration wants to create the largest non-contiguous protected ocean area in the world, but a new paper says the effort is failing to take into account the rights and ...
Grist

A rare celebration of Indigenous Pacific cultures underscores the cost of climate change

More than 2,000 people are gathering in Hawaiʻi this week and next for the 13th Festival of Pacific Island Arts and Culture. It’s the largest gathering of Indigenous Pacific peoples in the world. And ...
EurekAlert!

Pacific curators restore Indigenous voices to colonial-era collections

Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections, at the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) from 6th December 2024 to 21st December 2025, examines ...
News Tribune

Pacific Northwest Indigenous doulas are helping Native women reclaim birthing practices

Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services is a group of five indigenous doulas who provide culture-specific help to Native pregnant women and continue assistance through the first 1,000 days of the ...
Government Executive

Indigenous Pacific wildfire survivors on Maui can finally get FEMA help

AnnDionne Seletin normally finished work as a housekeeper at The Westin in West Maui after 5 p.m., but August 8 was different. With a hurricane passing south of the island and the power out, most ...

I Found Proof Evidence That an Indigenous Explorer Beat Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Coast by a Century

A century before Lewis and Clark, Indigenous explorer Moncacht-Apé reached the Pacific. Mike Bezemek unravels his mysterious ...
Oregonian

New Indigenous culture exhibits open at Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria

The display cases in “Cedar and Sea” are like many others in museum exhibits, full of traditional objects such as baskets, fishing hooks, carving tools and boxes. But compared with many other ...