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TORIBIO, Colombia (AP) — One of the stiffest blows in years to the prestige of Colombia's military wasn't inflicted by its leftist rebel foes and didn't claim a single soldier's life. It was dealt by ...

Thousands of Colombian Indians plan to protest government policies on Tuesday in the country's second-largest city, marking more than a week of demonstrations against the nation's free-market economic ...

Armed with tablets, dozens of indigenous and Venezuelan migrant children in Colombia's northern desert region are learning at ...

Survival’s research shows that more than 95% of the world’s uncontacted peoples live in the Amazon, with smaller populations ...

With ritual chants and plumes of smoke, an indigenous leader performed an ancient ceremony to bless the community-run fruit ...

A Protestant pastor has been ordered to leave his home and church in southwestern Colombia by the local indigenous council. The ultimatum warns of unspecified punishment if he and his family remain.

TIBU, Colombia (AP) -- Hundreds of Bari Indians, most clad in loincloths and carrying bows and arrows, came down from the hills in their first march ever Thursday to demand that the state-owned oil ...

BOGOTÁ—A protest by U'wa Indians that has shut down Colombia's second-longest oil pipeline for a month and cost the government more than $130 million will continue after Friday talks aimed at ending ...

"List of missionary societies. (a) Societies working among the lowland Indians. (b) Other societies mentioned in the text": p. [vi]. LOWLAND INDIANS OF AMAZONIA A SURVEY OF THE LOCATION AND RELIGIOUS ...

A week before what the Indigenous Krenak people now call “the death of the river,” they say they could feel it coming. The birds stopped singing, the air grew heavy, and an ...