RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The renowned chief from the Amazon rainforest and the Belgian filmmaker appeared to be close friends at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Far from the flashing cameras, however, ...

BELEM, Brazil, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Raoni Metuktire, an Indigenous chief from Brazil's Amazon, will urge the region's head of state meeting here this coming week to step up their efforts to preserve the ...

RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — It was considered to be among the world’s most productive partnerships between an Indigenous chief and a Westerner. For five decades, the Amazonian tribal leader and ...

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 ...

Raoni was born sometime in the 1930s — nobody knows the precise year — in the Metuktire branch of the Kayapo tribe. By then, the first Amazon rubber boom had ended after nearly three decades of often ...