BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a ...

Deep within the Amazon rainforest lives an Indigenous population whose history, traditions, and encounters with the outside ...

Miners walk for days to leave the Yanomami Indigenous territory ahead of expected operations against illegal mining in Alto Alegre, Roraima state, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. The government ...

Amazonian Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa wrote his 2013 book The Falling Sky: "A path of light opened before my eyes and unknown beings came towards me. "They had the appearance of tiny human beings ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — Many Yanomami, the Amazon’s largest Indigenous tribe in relative isolation, have been contaminated with mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a report ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis met Wednesday with a leader of Brazil’s Yanomami people, who asked for papal backing for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ’s efforts to reverse decades of exploitation ...

Yanomami from the Xitei and Waputha communities at a shelter set up by CASAI, the Center for Indigenous Health, in Boa Vista, Brazil, in March. The Yanomami come to Boa Vista to be treated for malaria ...

Claudia Andujar, "Collective house near the Catholic mission on the Catrimani River, Roraima state" (1976), mineral pigment print (from infrared film), 35.8 x 55.1 ...

This page was last updated in 2020 and may contain language which is now outdated. The Yanomami tribe has launched a global campaign to expel 20,000 gold miners from their land amid the coronavirus ...

For more than five decades, artist and activist, Claudia Andujar, has been photographing and defending the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous groups living in Amazonia. Her collection of ...