Indigenous People

Guatemala full of questions after genocide conviction annulled

2013-05-21 18:15:00

MEXICO CITY — The Guatemalan high court's decision to annul the genocide conviction of former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt on Tuesday revived questions about his responsibility for the slaughter of some 1,700 ethnic Maya people. The...

Alison Wright, photographer, chases faces, grace

2013-05-15 06:00:00

Alison Wright got her first camera at age 10, a Kodak Instamatic. Then she learned there was such a thing as a photojournalist, a person who traveled the world taking pictures. So that was that. She had a career – a career that would eventually...

Critic's Pick: 'Kon-Tiki' stays true to a legendary adventure

2013-05-01 15:05:00

There's a big, raw-boned appeal to "Kon-Tiki," the Norwegian film based on its native son explorer Thor Heyerdahl and the 100-plus days he and a crew of six spent on a balsa wood raft crossing the Pacific to prove a point. Carried by currents from Peru to...

Over U.S. objections, Hopi tribal masks sold in France

2013-04-12 13:42:00

PARIS -- Dozens of Native American masks were sold at auction Friday despite objections by the Hopi tribe, which considers the items sacred, and the U.S. government. The 70 masks sold for a total of about $1.2 million after a French court approved the...

Huntington to host show on Junipero Serra and California missions

2013-03-26 16:40:00

The 21 Spanish missions stretching from San Diego to Sonoma have been emblematic of early California for centuries -- and have been the subject of reports for generations of grade schoolers. The Huntington Library announced Tuesday it will host an...

Grammys 2013: Gotye, Fun. victories show pop's winning appeal

2013-02-11 07:00:00

Since at least 1989, when it was universally ridiculed for bestowing the hard rock-metal award on Jethro Tull over Metallica, the Recording Academy has lived in fear of seeming terminally out of touch. British neo-folkies Mumford & Sons won the evening'...

Grammys 2013: Juanes to perform at USC in charity event

2013-02-04 16:00:00

Some pop stars like to pump up their charitable and global-citizen bona fides, particularly around awards season time. Then there's Juanes, the Colombian rocker who actually practices the kind of civic consciousness that other celebrities merely...

For Baltasar Kormakur, an extreme route to the Oscar shortlist

2013-01-05 05:05:00

Baltasar Kormakur has had one strange career. After starting out as an actor in his native Iceland in the mid-1990s, he soon added directing to his dossier. He began with small Icelandic-language slacker films like “101 Reykjavik,” segued to...

Artist to unveil Metro Gold Line bridge design in Arcadia

2012-12-12 08:20:00

In Southern California, one of the surest ways to get people to notice public art is to put it near a freeway.� This week, officials are scheduled to unveil a new bridge in Arcadia for the Metro Gold Line extension. The bridge, designed by Minnesota...

Russell Means dies at 72; American Indian rights activist, actor

2012-10-23 00:00:00

Russell Means, who gained international notoriety as one of the leaders of the 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 and continued to be an outspoken champion of American Indian rights after launching a career as an actor in...

Universal Language

2012-06-01 16:39:52

In pursuit of the Yucatan Peninsula's gray ghosts

2012-06-07 10:34:00

Welcome to the end of the road. If you're going to Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, it stops here, near the tip of a long, skinny peninsula about 100 miles south of Cancun. Scrub jungle encroaches on the village, fishermen wait for the opening of lobster...

A group of indigenous people from Chichicastenango municipality take part in a ceremony to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the country's civil war peace agreements at the National Palace of Culture in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2012-12-29 00:00:00

, Brazil. More than 1,000 indigenous peoples are residing at the site through the conference. Indigenous groups oppose Brazil's Amazon forest policies including the controversial Belo Monte dam project.

2012-06-19 00:00:00

An indigenous child from Kayapo tribe attends first indigenous assembly for the "Rio +20" Conference at Kari-Oca village in Rio de Janeiro June 14, 2012. Indigenous people from around the world are visiting the village for the "Rio +20" United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.

2012-06-14 12:54:00