When an Amazonian tribe tried to regulate the mines on their territory, they invited the violence of modern life into their ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — One of Brazil’s last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation said Thursday. The ...

The last member of an Indigenous tribe in Brazil has died, apparently of natural causes. The last member of a besieged Indigenous tribe in Brazil has died RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This story takes us to ...

An unidentified, indigenous man believed to be the last of his tribe has died in the western Brazilian Amazon. He was known as the "man of the hole" for his habit of constructing deep holes, some with ...

A top expert on isolated Amazon tribes in Brazil was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest as he approached an indigenous group, friends and a police witness said on Thursday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian anthropologists are looking for members of an Amazon tribe that has had little or no contact with the outside world to steer them clear of a rival indigenous group and ...

Like the North American Indian be fore him, the Brazilian Indian has had no worse enemy than the white man —and the white man’s ways. Early Portuguese colonizers and their descendants enslaved natives ...

Environmentalists in Brazil are mourning the death of a leading expert on uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, who was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest. Friends of Rieli Franciscato say he ...

Ethnologists of the Smithsonian Institution agree with Pope that “the proper study of mankind is man,” and that no detail is too small to be recorded. Recently, in dedication to this proposition, they ...

The Brazilian military wrapped up on Monday a three-week operation that provided medical care to the Amazon's Guajajara tribe hit by COVID-19, in response to criticism that Brazil was not protecting ...