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A woman models a creation by a local designer at a Chola fashion show, promoting the Andean style and beauty of Aymara women, in Viacha, Bolivia, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

In Bolivia’s scrappy highlands, proud Indigenous Cholas take the runway by storm

Associated Press

A pedestrian walks past a vote Yes poster for the Voice referendum in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday, Sept. 26, that opinion polls suggest Indigenous Australians overwhelmingly support a proposal to create their own representative body to advise Parliament and have it enshrined in the constitution. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Australian prime minister says he’s confident Indigenous people back having their Parliament ‘Voice’

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

May Sarah Cardinal sits for a portrait outside the Law Courts building in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on Thursday, May 25, 2023. Cardinal said she was pressured into having her tubes tied when she was 20. “The doctor told me: ‘There are hard times ahead and how are you going to look after a bunch of kids? What if your husband leaves?' ... I was afraid if I didn’t go through with it, they would be angry with me, and I didn’t feel like I had a say.” (AP Photo/Amber Bracken)

Canada’s Indigenous women forcibly sterilized decades after other rich countries stopped

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, July 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope seeks prayers for his ‘penitential’ Canadian pilgrimage

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

FILE - Local residents navigate the Amazon River near Leticia, Colombia, Sept. 7, 2019. Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high rates of deforestation in the Amazon. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

New Colombian president pledges to protect rainforest

By Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

Indigenous people attend the funeral of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira at the Morada da Paz cemetery, in Recife, Pernambuco state, Friday, June 24, 2022. Indigenous groups, family and friends paid their final respects to Pereira as he was laid to rest in his hometown of Recife. Pereira was killed in the Amazon region with the British journalist Dom Phillips. (AP Photo/Teresa Maia)

Indigenous and family mourn expert killed in the Amazon

By Lucas Dumphreys and Muricio Svarese - Associated Press

Providence schools get $3M grant to boost teacher diversity

Associated Press

Brazil officials warn clash looms between Indigenous, miners

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2021 file photo, Healthcare worker Vanda Ortega, from the Witoto Indigenous group and dressed in traditional clothing, is the first woman to receive the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd, during the start of the vaccination program in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. Navigating complex waterways to reach remote communities in Brazil’s Amazon is only the first challenge for health workers vaccinating Indigenous and riverine people against COVID-19. Upon arrival, they face something they never anticipated: people refusing to take the shot. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Fear of COVID-19 vaccine grows in Brazil’s remote Amazon

By DIANE JEANTET and FERNANDO CRISPIM - Associated Press

Pataxo men take part in a protest against the proposal by Brazil's president to transfer the responsibility of health services from the federal level to municipal governments, outside the Ministry of Health, in Brasilia, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Indigenous groups in Brazil protest health care changes

By ANNA JEAN KAISER - Associated Press