Federal prosecutors, who accuse the Brazilian state of genocide in their civil suit, said hundreds, if not thousands, of tribe members died between 1968 and 1977, when highway BR-174 was built.

Brazilian Indigenous tribe leader Celia Xakriaba pictured at a press conference on November 12, 2019, in the French capital Paris. THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images. Brazilian indigenous leader ...

Members of the Waimiri-Atroari tribe in Brazil's Amazon recounted before a non-indigenous judge last week how hundreds in their community were slaughtered by the military decades ago so that a ...

An isolated Brazilian tribe hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest has vowed to “take up bows and arrows” against government forces threatening their territory with deforestation.

Brazilian government sends drones to spy on tribes that have never seen the outside world. By Mike Wehner. Published Aug 24th, ... the video was shot near Brazil’s border with Peru, ...

Brazil has a policy of not contacting such tribes but working to prevent the invasion of their land to preserve their autonomy. Funai estimates 68 isolated populations live in the Amazon.

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil, Jan 16 (Reuters) - In the 1980's Brazil's first indigenous Congressman, Xavante chief Juruna, went around with a recorder to tape conversations with other ...

It’s hard to believe that in 2014, with the majority of the world’s population living in cities there could be as many as 600 “uncontacted Indians” living in the rainforest on the Brazil ...

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, Brazil — Coronavirus is spreading fast through Brazil’s indigenous populations, with deaths caused by the disease increasing more than five-fold in the past month ...

Brazil's government wants to harness the hydroelectric power potential of the Xingu River to meet the country's energy needs. But the ancestral… Brazilian Tribes Say Dam Threatens Way of Life ...