Damiana standing in front of her husband’s grave. Photo courtesy of Patrick Borhaug/Survival As wife to the Chief of her Apy Ka’y community—one of the tribes of the Guarani people—Damiana’s family was ...

In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue. A lighthearted beginning to the commonly taught story retelling the “discovery” of the Americas often neglects the realities of what it ...

Brazilian indigenous activists are expected to protest in the capital Brasilia on Wednesday ahead of a Supreme Court verdict that could weaken tribes’ legal hold on swaths of ancestral land. At least ...

Brazil’s government on Friday sacked the head of its agency handling indigenous issues, a week after 13 members of one tribe were wounded in a bloody attack by ranchers in a land dispute. The justice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo of an Awa Guajá couple was taken only five days before their first contact with outsiders in 1992. "Uncontacted peoples ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) - In the 1980's Brazil's first indigenous Congressman, Xavante chief Juruna, went around with a recorder to tape conversations with other politicians because he ...

Illegal loggers have killed an Amazon warrior who guarded the forest and wounded another as indigenous tribes battle to save ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO — A handful of indigenous activists and researchers were celebrating a birthday huddled around a small pit fire when they noticed the flames devouring a building a few dozen yards away.

“Cough, catarrh and chest pain killed everybody. Everybody died… They weren’t buried. They were too weak to bury the dead. They were very ill so they didn’t bury them. The vultures ate them from the ...

If there is one image that encapsulates COP30, this year’s global climate change conference in Belém, Brazil, it might be this: Indigenous activists, in traditional clothing and regalia, storming past ...