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 ...

A huge fire engulfing a swath of Brazilian jungle threatens the existence of remote indigenous tribes and may have been started by illegal loggers invading the territory, Greenpeace said Wednesday.

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 prosecutors and Indigenous organizations are pushing for transportation guarantees for Indigenous voters in ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Deforestation of lands occupied by isolated indigenous tribes in the Brazilian Amazon more than doubled between July 2019 and July 2018 to the highest rate in more than a decade, ...

Along the river the Xavante people of Brazil call Owawê are many of the Indigenous tribe’s sacred sites, ancient villages and cemeteries. It is also where their ear piercing rituals are held, marking ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) - Leaders of native tribes in Brazil issued a rallying call to protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people from what they called the "genocide, ...

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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 ...

There are over 100 uncontacted tribes around the world. The vast majority are in Brazil. They are a vitally important part of human diversity, but they face catastrophe unless their land is protected.