Yawalapiti children climb a tree to jump into the Xingu River in the Xingu National Park, Mato Grosso State, May 7, 2012. In August the Yawalapiti tribe will hold the Quarup, which is a ritual held ...

Dozens of Amazon indigenous leaders have gathered in the heart of the threatened rainforest to form an alliance against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policy and his threats to ...

CONQUISTA DO OESTE, Brazil (Reuters) - The savannah scrubland where Chief João Ponce once hunted deer and wild boar in Brazil has given way to neat rows of soy and corn that a tractor sprays with ...

Fishing for dinner in a river full of stingrays. Celebrating a maturation ceremony with an indigenous tribe. Witnessing Brazil’s land struggles firsthand. Eight Massachusetts high school students ...

Facing the worst outbreak of forest fires in three years, cattle ranchers and indigenous tribesmen in the southern Amazon have teamed up to extinguish nearly two dozen blazes over the past three ...

CUIABA, Brazil – Body paint in place of uniforms. Bare feet instead of high-tech shoes. And a loose notion of competition that assigns little value to winning. Welcome to the 12th Indigenous Games ...

SIDROLANDIA, Brazil — Early one morning in May, gunfire rang out in a rural encampment of the indigenous Terena tribe in southwestern Brazil, killing Oziel Gabriel, who had been carrying a bow and ...

CORREGO GRANDE, Brazil — At one time, Jose Aogua’s ancestors could gaze out to the distant horizon, across miles of verdant savanna, and still not see the limit of their land. The hunt was plentiful ...

Promised land decades ago, they have begun forcing the issue by occupying farms. Brazilian Indians of the Guarani-Kaiowa tribe, group together as they invade a private ranch that they consider part of ...

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 ...