Canada’s Assembly of First Nations (AFN) elected a woman as national chief for the first time.

The Canadian indigenous group that discovered some 750 unmarked graves near a former residential school last month has announced the takeover of its own child welfare services under a deal with the federal government.

A group of protesters have toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II in Canada amid growing outrage over the treatment of Indigenous children in notorious residential schools.

Riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a group of indigenous people protesting outside Brazil’s Congress against a bill that would undermine recognition of protected reservation lands.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has criticized the Catholic Church for ignoring its role in running many indigenous residential schools in the country following the recent discovery of the remains of more than 200 children at one former school.

The discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former residential school in Canada has reopened wounds among indigenous survivors of colonial Canadian schools.

Canada's Indigenous communities remain under boil-water advisories one year into the Covid-19 pandemic.

Leaders of Brazil’s indigenous communities say evangelical missionaries preach people against coronavirus vaccination in remote villages.