New Mexico is one of 17 states to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “The fact that New Mexico celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a wonderful feeling.

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico – Pope Francis on Monday denounced the centuries-old exploitation and social exclusion of Mexico's indigenous people and said the world should instead learn ...

Indigenous people are being targeted for resisting development projects. Mexico is now the most dangerous place for environmental activists like them. Opinion: How Mexico's Indigenous communities ...

In Mexico, 71.9% of the indigenous population, which encompasses 8.3 million people, lived in poverty in 2016, according to a census conducted by the National Council for Evaluation of Social ...

Book Reviews. Autonomous Mexico What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state. Thaddeus Russell | From the August/September 2021 issue ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the sixth year in a row, Indigenous Peoples’ Day is being recognized as an official holiday in New Mexico. Here is what is going on for it. In 2019, Gov. Michelle Lujan ...

New Mexico is one of 17 states to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “The fact that New Mexico celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a wonderful feeling.

In April 2011 the people of Cheran, an indigenous Purhepecha community in Michoacan, Mexico, took up arms to expel the illegal loggers who had decimated their forests. In the years since, the wild ...

MEXICO CITY — A major reform approved by congress last week is supposed to limit harmful practices by the mining industry and improve protections for the environment and Indigenous peoples.

Of more than 23 million Indigenous people in Mexico — nearly 20% of the population — well over half live in poverty, according to government data from 2022.

About 12% of New Mexico’s population is Native Americans, but it’s still rare to see them in political positions. A new ...