The quarterly magazine has addressed issues of both immediate & long-term concern to indigenous peoples throughout the world.

Issues include:

Volume 9, Number 3 1985: Nation, Tribe and Ethnic Group in Africa

Volume 15, Number 2 1991: Western Oceania

Fall 1995: Culture, Resources and Conflict

Spring 1996: Voices from the Commons

Winter 1997: Traditional Music in Community Life

Winter 1999: Uprooted

Spring 2000: Problems in Paradise

Summer 2001: Endangered languages

Winter 2001: Intellectual Property Rights

Summer 2002: Nurturing the Sacred

Volume 35, Issue 3: Living in Two Worlds

Volume 36, Issue 2 June 2012: 40 Years of Advocacy

May 2013: Turning Rights into Reality