Race and ethnicity

Nawal Hirsi, right, goes snow tubing with her family as part of a group promoting outdoors activities by Muslim women, at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove, Minn., on Jan. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Nawal Hirsi, right, goes snow tubing with her family as part of a group promoting outdoors activities by Muslim women, at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove, Minn., on Jan. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

Minnesota

Scarves over headscarves, Muslim women’s outdoors group tackles snow tubing in Minnesota

JAN. 8, 2025

Indigenous Spirituality Peyote Church
The property of the late Amada Cardenas, who was one of the first federally licensed peyote dealers, alongside her husband, to harvest and sell the sacramental plant to followers of the Native American Church, in Mirando City, Texas, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Race and ethnicity

Trust-building pays off for AP journalists documenting threats to sacred peyote 

JAN. 3, 2025

Mexico Cenotes Rights
A man looks down from a bridge into the Santa Cruz cenote in Homun, Mexico, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Race and ethnicity

Indigenous Mayans seek personhood for sacred underground lakes in Yucatan  

DEC. 20, 2024

Chronic Absenteeism Indigenous Students
Attendance Clerk Katrice Grant speaks to siblings Melanie Pacheco, 8, left, and Marilynn Pacheco, 5, in the hallway before heading to their classrooms, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, at Algodones Elementary School in Algodones, N.M. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales)

COVID-19

Native American students miss school at higher rates. It only got worse during the pandemic

DEC. 13, 2024

FILE - A U.S. squad armed with guns and hand grenades closes in on Japanese holdouts entrenched in dugouts during World War II on Attu Island, Alaska, in June 1943. (U.S. Army via AP, File)
FILE - A U.S. squad armed with guns and hand grenades closes in on Japanese holdouts entrenched in dugouts during World War II on Attu Island, Alaska, in June 1943. (U.S. Army via AP, File)

Japan

Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion

DEC. 10, 2024

A man looks down from a bridge into the Santa Cruz cenote in Homun, Mexico, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man looks down from a bridge into the Santa Cruz cenote in Homun, Mexico, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Mexico

Indigenous Mayans want their sacred cenotes to have personhood status

DEC. 9, 2024

Attendance Clerk Katrice Grant speaks to siblings Melanie Pacheco, 8, left, and Marilynn Pacheco, 5, in the hallway before heading to their classrooms, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, at Algodones Elementary School in Algodones, N.M. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales)
Attendance Clerk Katrice Grant speaks to siblings Melanie Pacheco, 8, left, and Marilynn Pacheco, 5, in the hallway before heading to their classrooms, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, at Algodones Elementary School in Algodones, N.M. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales)

COVID-19

Native American students miss school at higher rates. It only got worse during the pandemic

DEC. 3, 2024

FILE - Rescue workers and people gather on the rubble of a house hit in an Israeli airstrike in Baalchmay village east of Beirut, Lebanon, on Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
FILE - Rescue workers and people gather on the rubble of a house hit in an Israeli airstrike in Baalchmay village east of Beirut, Lebanon, on Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Conflict

Lebanon’s Shiite Muslims pay high price in war between Israel and Hezbollah

NOV. 25, 2024

Climate COP29 Indigenous Peoples Photo Gallery
Members of various Indigenous communities pose for a photo while attending the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. From top left, Saina Ekaterina Savvinova, 53, of Yakutsk, Russia, Antumalen Ayelen Antillanca Urrutia, 26, of Huapi Island, Chile, Sydney Males, 27, of Otavalo, Ecuador, Big Wind Carpenter, 31, of Wind River Reservation, United States, Flora Vano, 39, of Port Vila, Vanuatu, Puyr dos Santos Tembe, 47, of Belem, Brazil, Mingma Chhiri, 40, of the Khumbu Pasanglhamu Municipality District, Nepal, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, 41, of N'Djamena, Chad, Ninawa Inu Pereira Nunes, 50, of Feijo, Brazil, Marynne Rimbao, 42, of Unda village, Papua New Guinea, Didja Tchari Djibrillah, 30, of the Mayo-Kebbi East, Chad, and Jackson Michael, 40, of the Borneo, Malaysia. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Climate

Photographer at UN climate conference takes intimate portraits of Indigenous attendees and asks about effect of climate change on their communities

NOV. 22, 2024

Election 2024-Alaska-Native Voting
A polar bear and a cub search for scraps in a large pile of bowhead whale bones left from the village's subsistence hunting at the end of an unused airstrip near the village of Kaktovik, Alaska, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson

Elections

AP braves a white-out blizzard to deliver an exclusive on voter disenfranchisement in Alaska

NOV. 8, 2024

APTOPIX Election 2024 Arizona Navajo Nation Emptiness Photo Essay
A battered U.S. flag flutters in the wind on the Navajo Nation in Dilkon, Ariz., Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd

Elections

AP spans the huge Navajo Nation to show rare campaigning for Native votes

NOV. 8, 2024

FILE - This undated photo from a court document provided by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana shows golden eagle feet recovered by law enforcement officers from a Washington state man's vehicle. (Courtesy of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana via AP, File)
FILE - This undated photo from a court document provided by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana shows golden eagle feet recovered by law enforcement officers from a Washington state man's vehicle. (Courtesy of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana via AP, File)

Animals

Poachers are exploiting the high demand for eagle feathers that are sacred among Native Americans

OCT. 30, 2024

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