On Nov. 7 in Brazil, Indigenous people from the Tupinambá and other ethnic groups occupied the Tapajós River with small boats for several hours, halting barges carrying soybeans and other commodities ...

Paving roads in the Amazon rainforest has long brought deforestation that threatens the people who live there. The same ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indigenous tribes in Brazil are demonstrating to demand more legal protections for their homelands in the face of massive ...

The Indigenous community’s relationship with Catholic institutions has been central to Sateré-Mawé resistance to ...

BRASILIA (AP) — Raoni Metuktire, the Amazon’s most internationally famous Indigenous leader, on Wednesday said he still supports President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and will campaign for his ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian indigenous leaders began a four-day tribal gathering in the Amazon on Tuesday to plan their opposition to far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's push ...

From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous people from across Brazil gathered in the capital for the annual Free Land Encampment rally to demand that the government honor longstanding promises, like the ...

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, ...