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People carry the coffin of slain Catholic priest and activist Marcelo Pérez prior to a mass at the main plaza in San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)
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Hundreds mourn priest and Indigenous peace activist

By The Associated Press
Catholic nun Paola Clericó, holding a poster of missing person Fernando Ivan Ornelas, and Veronica Rosas with a photo of her missing son Diego, ask a resident if he recognizes either man and invite him to join a Mass with members of their search collective "Uniendo Esperanzas" or Uniting Hope, in Mexico City, Sunday, July 21, 2024. The collective of people with missing family members held a Mass on the birthday of Ornelas who disappeared five years prior. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
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One day, their children didn't make it back home. Faith helps these Mexican mothers' search for them

By Associated Press
Communal police forest officers walk on seized pine logs they found hidden in the brush along the road while on patrol, on the outskirts of the Indigenous township of Cheran, Michoacan state, Mexico, Jan. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
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Indigenous community police come under fire from drug cartels

By The Associated Press
Mexican-Triqui artist Carlos CGH, wearing a black and red “gabán,” a garment native to the Triqui people in western Oaxaca, performs during a celebration of Indigenous peoples at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Mariana Martínez Barba)
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An Indigenous Triqui artist embraces his roots through contemporary rap

By Associated Press
This is the view upriver from Lee's Ferry of the Colorado River from the Spencer Trail. (Photo by Al_HikesAZ, Creative Commons)
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Arizona, Nevada and Mexico will lose same amount of Colorado River water next year as in 2024

By Associated Press
Ruling party presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum greets supporters as she leaves a polling station after voting in the general election in Mexico City, Sunday, June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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The first woman elected to lead Mexico faces pressing issues

By The Associated Press
Indigenous women walk their donkeys loaded with firewood for cooking in Plan de Ayala, a Tojolabal village in the Las Margaritas municipality of Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Two women are on Mexico’s ballot for president while women in some Indigenous areas have no voice in their own villages. However, with help from younger generations, some Indigenous women are pushing for change. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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A woman will likely be Mexico's next president

By The Associated Press
A Purepecha Indigenous woman tosses confetti during a rest stop by a group walking from Erongaricuaro, where residents kept a flame alive for one year and are taking it to Ocumicho in Michoacan state, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. To mark the new year, based on an ancient lunar calendar, a new flame will be lit during a “New Fire” ceremony on Feb. 2. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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Indigenous group welcomes the New Year with New Fire ceremony

By The Associated Press
A view of the archaeological site Yaxchilan in Chiapas state, Saturday, July 9, 2022. (Eduardo Verdugo, AP)
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Why some Mayan ruin sites are unreachable

By The Associated Press
Members of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, EZLN, attend an event marking the 30th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising in Dolores Hidalgo, Chiapas, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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Zapatista indigenous rebel movement marks 30 years

By The Associated Press
Visitors look at a replica of the U.S. Supreme Court adorned with different varieties of poinsettias on display at the U.S. Botanic Garden, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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The checkered history of the poinsettia's namesake

By The Associated Press
Ivana Carolina Canol Pech is a tourism student at the Mayan Intercultural University of Quintana Roo who helps maintain Melipona bees at the university and explains their significance to visitors. (Grace Finnell-Gudwien/Medill News Service)
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Sacred bees are vital to Mayan culture

By Grace Finnell-Gudwien
People parade during the Guelaguetza festival in Oaxaca, Mexico, Saturday, July 15, 2023. During the government-sponsored event, 16 Indigenous ethnic groups and the Afro-Mexican community promote their traditions through public dances, parades and craft sales. (AP Photo/Maria Alferez)
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Mexico's Indigenous promote heritage during festival

By The Associated Press
In a photo provided by Roxanne Cruz-de Hoyos, Gabriel Trujillo conducts field research for his doctorate in Arizona. His research across North America was tragically cut short last week in Mexico, where Trujillo’s father says he was shot seven times. Authorities discovered his body on June 22 in the state of Sonora, in northwest Mexico — days after his fiancée reported him missing. (Roxanne Cruz-de Hoyos via AP)
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An Indigenous scholar's research took him to Mexico and a violent death

By The Associated Press
The Popocatepetl volcano spews ash and steam, seen from Santiago Xalitzintla, Mexico, May 24, 2023. Mexico lowered the alert level on the Popocatépetl volcano by early June 2023 after its eruptions of gas and ash had drawn the attention of the international community. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
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Preserving the sacred knowledge of El Popo

By The Associated Press
Roxana Ruiz shouts slogans during a march in memory of Diana Velazquez, who was making a call outside her home in 2017 when she was disappeared, raped and killed, in Chimalhuacan, State of Mexico, Mexico, July 2, 2022. Ruiz, who killed a man defending herself when he attacked and raped her in 2021 was sentenced to more than six years in prison, a decision her legal defense called “discriminatory” and vowed to appeal Tuesday, May 16, 2023.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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'Defending my life isn't a crime'

By The Associated Press
In this Oct. 12, 2020 file photo, a pedestrian takes a photo of graffiti on a temporary metal barrier set up to protect the perimeter of the Christopher Columbus's statue which was removed by authorities on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico Cito. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021 that the statue will be replaced by a statue honoring Indigenous women. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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How Mexico City's mural movement transformed

By The Associated Press
Canadian Member of Parliament Leah Gazan, Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation in Saskatchewan, presented a motion approved unanimously in Canada's House of Commons calling on the government to declare an emergency over missing or murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. Gazan, is a member of the New Democratic Party from Winnipeg Centre, Manitoba. She is shown here campaigning on Sept. 24, 2019, in Winnipeg as NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh looks on.  (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Protests, reforms and Aboriginal art

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Indigenous leader Nando Potiguara raises a copy of the Brazilian Constitution during a protest against miners working on Yanomami Indigenous land, outside the National Indigenous Foundation in Brasilia, Brazil, on Friday, May 6, 2022. The sign reads in Portuguese "Justice for the Yanomami."(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Traditional knowledge, depleted resources and well-deserved recognition

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Omar Hernandez walks with his daughters on land he sold for the construction of a section of the Maya Train, near the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Hernandez hopes to sell organic honey he produces to tourists. He had to relocate his hives though, worried the heavy machinery would scare them away. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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Worries abound that Mexico’s Maya Train will destroy jungle

By Associated Press
This image taken from video provided by Fort Huachuca shows a wild jaguar on Dec. 1, 2016, in southern Arizona. An environmental group on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help reintroduce the jaguar to the Southwest, where it once roamed for hundreds of thousands of years before being whittled down to just one of the big cats known to survive in the region. (Fort Huachuca via AP, File)
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Environmentalists want jaguars reintroduced to Southwest

By The Associated Press
Border Patrol agents patrol along a line of shipping containers stacked near the border on Aug. 23, 2022, near Yuma, Ariz. The Cocopah Indian Tribe is welcoming the federal government's call for the state of Arizona to remove a series of double-stacked shipping containers placed along the U.S.-Mexico border near the desert city of Yuma, saying they are unauthorized and violate U.S. law. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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Tribe welcomes call to take down border containers

By The Associated Press
A Yaqui Indigenous family walks past the cemetery where slain water-defense leader Tomás Rojo is buried, outside a church where they arrive to celebrate the Virgin Mary in Potam, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Mexico has become the deadliest place in the world for environmental and land defense activists, and the Yaqui Indigenous people of northern Mexico are still mourning the killing of Rojo in June 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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Mexico is world's deadliest spot for environmental activists

By Associated Press
Migrants wait to be processed after crossing into the United States near the end of a border wall Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, near Yuma, Ariz. A border wall with Mexico isn't the issue it was during Donald Trump's presidency but plans for more barriers in Yuma, Ariz., is a reminder of obstacles that the federal government always faces: difficulty working on tribal lands and private property. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Tribal land a major spot for crossings

By The Associated Press