Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people ...
As they advanced in age without a child to carry on the line, many expected the Akuntsu to vanish when the three remaining ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The people who live in a section of the Amazon rainforest are facing extinction and fighting for their survival as the full force of the 21st Century reaches their doorstep and ...
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 ...
Opponents fear that mining will expose the tribe to harmful pollution and hurt tribal unity, while supoorters think it will raise their standard of living. The project, expected to soon break ground, ...
A Brazilian official who spent his career working to protect uncontacted Amazon tribes died after an arrow struck him in the chest, the country’s indigenous affairs agency, FUNAI, has confirmed. Rieli ...
LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...