For most of the past 500 years, to be an indigenous person in the Americas meant to be eliminated, assimilated or ignored. It is a story that makes for painful reading, but at last, that story is being told. As nations gain a deeper, more accurate understanding of what happened, they are finding ways to redress past wrongs. Indigenous peoples are beginning to receive new respect for claims to their rights, their land, and their identity.

• Equal rights, equal respect
  
• Between the old and the new
  
• Communities to reform schools
  
• Pilgrimage to Warisata
  
• Winding path of laws and reforms
  
• Native peoples by the numbers
  
• Financing for change
  
• Indigenous and in charge
  
• A spokesman for indigenous rights
  
• Ancient spirituality in a modern world