Digital Journal

Brazil’s indigenous tribes to protest as court decision looms

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 ...
VICE

Brazil’s Indigenous Tribes Won’t Give in to Murderous Cattle Ranchers

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 ...
Good Men Project

Indigenous Tribes Upset at Cargill’s Continuing Exploitation of Brazil’s Amazon

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 ...
Digital Journal

Brazil sacks indigenous agency chief after attack on tribe

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 ...
Yahoo

Half of all uncontacted Indigenous tribes may disappear by 2036

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 ...
TRT World

Indigenous people stage protest at COP30 entrance in Brazil

Dozens of Indigenous activists in traditional clothing blocked the main entrance to the UN COP30 summit in Belem, demanding a meeting with President Lula and protesting projects threatening the Amazon ...
Reuters

Brazil's tribes stride into digital age to defend their culture, forests

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 ...
KSL

Tribes gather for Brazil's Indigenous Games

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WRAL

Loss of Indigenous Works in Brazil Museum Fire Felt ‘Like a New Genocide’

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.
Grist

After COP30, Indigenous advocates celebrate gains while warning of unfinished work

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 ...
Survival International

Self-isolation is why uncontacted tribes survive today

“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 ...