New studies reveal that Rapa Nui's society was resilient and adaptive, challenging the long-standing myth of ecological collapse.

On Tuesday, April 22, the special event "One Earth, One Sky, One Home: Connecting Ancestral Knowledge to Future Generations" ...

Indigenous Peoples sustain at least 40% of the most ... will share insights from their ancient cultural traditions. The Rapa Nui delegation from the Comunidad Indígena Ma'u Henua, in the Pacific ...

The new study shows that about 10 percent of the ancestry of the pre-European contact Rapanui was Indigenous ... peoples from ...

It takes six hours to get to this remote destination that has almost no phone service, rolling green hills and volcanoes.

From volcanic outposts in the Pacific to icy Arctic glaciers, these eight islands are the most remote in the entire world.

So much so that just as the tree does not allow us to see the forest, the moai does not allow us to see the people. The constant ... the relevance of an indigenous approach to archaeological research ...

A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui ...

Negotiators are calling for involvement in the agreement’s decision-making process, not just an acknowledgement of their ...

In Native Hawaiians’ genealogical stories, says Solomon Kahoʻohalahala, the coral polyp is considered the oldest ancestor, ...