Enter the world of the shaman with the words of Davi Yanomami, the “Dalai Lama of the Rainforest”, and images taken by Claudia Andujar, winner of the Goethe Medal 2018 The spirit world is a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the Yanomami Indigenous Land, the largest in Brazil, leaders believe in their youths’ skills to maintain their ancestors’ legacy and safeguard ...

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based arthouse distributor KimStim has acquired North American rights to feature-doc The Falling Sky, about the threat to the existence of the Amazonian Yanomami people, ahead of ...

The haunting images of Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar are on exhibit at MAMU. Photo: Claudia Andujar/Banco de la República. Claudia Andujar has long been a window into worlds on the brink of ...

Entrancing at times and eventually hard-hitting, Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha’s feature amplifies the voices of Indigenous people speaking directly to those who threaten their existence.

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 ...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Yellow and green feathers radiating from his headdress, Davi Kopenawa strode onto the parade route with a mission in mind. All around him, the city of Rio de Janeiro was ...

Illegal gold mining is destroying swathes of protected Yanomami territory in Brazil. Authorities have discovered further illegal mining operations on Yanomami Indigenous lands in Brazil, casting doubt ...

The Yanomami child stares with blank eyes out of a body reduced to skin and bones by extreme hunger. The image of the Yanomami humanitarian crisis circled the globe early this year. On Jan. 21, the ...