West Papua borders the independent nation of Papua New Guinea. The island has some 245 different tribal peoples. Indigenous peoples in West Papua and Papua New Guinea speak some 15% of the world's ...

Mixed-race people in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have long been socially acknowledged as a distinct ethnic group—a group whose individual members sometimes also oscillate between being subsumed by, ...

The Knasaimos peoples of the South Sorong Regency in Papua have been granted legal land rights over their indigenous lands. However, enforcing these rights remains challenging, with a lack of ...

Reportedly, the villagers believed that the man from the uncontacted Indigenous Amazon tribe contacted them to ask for fire.

Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will ... churches are full, Indigenous “customs and traditions are very much rooted,” Ravailoli said. “Sometimes for people, it’s not easy ...

Papua New Guinea has a population of more than 11.7 million people. With around 850 indigenous languages, it is the most linguistically diverse country on Earth, according to the World Bank.

Our stories are more important than ever before to present indigenous perspectives to the world, challenge colonisation, ...

It always seems to rain at night here in the mountains of Papua New Guinea. This is why Lidia and what's left of her people, the Meakambut, seek refuge in rock shelters—they're dry. Located high ...

Currently, the role of indigenous peoples has come to the fore again, including in politics, when Papua is about to be divided from 2 to 7 provinces, Politicians have agreed with the pemekaran ...

Physical similarities with indigenous tribes in Southern ... revealed strong genetic links to the neighbouring peoples in modern Papua New Guinea, Micronesia and parts of Oceania.

MELBOURNE--A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations that more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive by last Friday’s landslide and has formally ...