Fifty Munduruku warriors hack their way with machetes through the undergrowth of the Amazon rainforest, marking the borders of their ancestral lands to finish a task that the Brazilian government has ...

Three women lived for years as the last members of the Akuntsu people, who were decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s and ‘80s.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's government should hear native Indians before deciding on the construction of a controversial $17.3 billion hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, rock ...

As they advanced in age without a child to carry on the line, many expected the Akuntsu to vanish when the three remaining ...

Babawru, a woman in her 40s, along with her mother and sister, believed they would be the last surviving members of the ...

On Feb. 3, at the request of an association of the Indigenous Cinta Larga people in the Amazon, the Brazilian Supreme Court ...

Sao Paulo — Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the ...

The Mashco-Piro tribe, believed to be the world's largest uncontacted indigenous group, has been forced from their Amazon ...

State-run energy firm Petrobras faces resistance from Indigenous groups for its goal to open Brazil's northern coast to oil drilling. An environmental agency denied Petrobras a license for exploratory ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to his people less than 24 hours later, Brazilian ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s government agreed to release photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few ...