One official calls a newborn boy "a symbol of the resistance of the Akuntsu people, but also a source of hope for Indigenous ...

These tribes view modern machinery and deforestation as existential threats to their way of life. The simplicity of life among indigenous tribes includes a lack of basic technologies and an ...

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

Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists consider an alarming sign ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. APIWTXA VILLAGE, Brazil (AP) — It was just ...

A member of the Amazon Cinta Larga tribe leads federal police to a massacre site in the Amazon Rainforest in 2004. AP One of Brazil’s largest diamond deposits exists in the territory of the Cinta ...

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 ...

MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - Samela Sateré-Mawé, a 24-year-old biology student, has one guiding belief - if the rainforest dies so will her Amazon tribe. "Indigenous people are an extension of nature, ...

A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, the country’s Indigenous affairs agency and local witnesses said Thursday. The encounter occurred ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this frame from video provided by Survival International, Dabi Nishida, of the Yine Indigenous group, maneuvers a boat near a ...

APIWTXA VILLAGE, Brazil (AP) — It was just before dawn when the Ashaninka people, wearing long, tunic-like dresses, began singing traditional songs while playing drums and other instruments. The music ...