The Orang Asli population in Thailand is forecast to rise. However, the total number is still far behind that across the border in Malaysia, which is home to more than 170,000 Orang Asli people.

Four Karen Indigenous men stand behind a banner reading, “We are one, Indigenous peoples in Asia,” outside the Thai Prime Minister’s office on Feb. 17, as part of the #SaveBangKloi campaign.

Legislation in 1981 that made Surin a Thai national park curbed the Moken right to traditional forestry methods, and Myanmar developed legislation in the 1990s that likewise disregarded the needs of ...

[Non-Indigenous] people will say no, that’s outdated, that’s too ancient,” Cayetano said, speaking in Spanish, his second language, but one he was forced to learn.

The release of “Avatar: The Way of Water” has put the series’ creators in hot water yet again, as Indigenous people criticize what they call the movie’s glamorization of colonialism and ...

Many Christian denominations in recent years have repudiated a doctrine that was used to justify the subjugation of Native and Indigenous people. That's now playing out in local congregations.

The Indigenous Effect: Native People in Film. Over the past few years, Indigenous film and television have finally started to break through on mainstream platforms, and the National Museum of the ...