Indigenous (iTaukei) people across Fiji have historically protected their freshwater and marine areas in memory of chiefs and community members who have passed away. These are called aquatic funerary ...

Death is a shared commonality of the human condition, yet the rituals that attend it vary significantly across cultures and religions. The one commonality is that while the nature of death itself does ...

Every year, five hours west of Mexico City on Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán, residents flock to the island of Janitzio to visit the graves of their departed relatives. On the evening of Nov. 1, the ...

A day after Indigenous Peoples' Day, the Milwaukee County Parks Department removed a plaque from a 2,000-year-old Indigenous burial mound in Lake Park. The department justified the removal because it ...