The Mashco-Piro tribe, believed to be the world's largest uncontacted indigenous group, has been forced from their Amazon rainforest home in Peru ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few ...

Babawru, a woman in her 40s, along with her mother and sister, believed they would be the last surviving members of the ...

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PIRIPKURA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil – Jair Candor had been searching the Amazon rainforest for three days when he heard their voices. He had spent a decade documenting their tracks, but that day ...

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 ...

BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Native Indians in Brazil have found survivors from a military plane that crashed into the Amazon rain forest with 11 people on board, the air force said on Friday, without ...