Thousands of Brazilian indigenous tribe members clashed with riot police Tuesday while demonstrating in the capital, Brasilia, for greater rights. Some of the indigenous people were armed with bows ...

Brazilian indigenous activists celebrated Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled against a state seeking compensation for land that had been declared tribal reserves. The ruling against Mato Grosso ...

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Coronavirus is spreading fast through Brazil's indigenous populations, with deaths caused by the disease increasing more than five-fold in the past month, according to ...

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Environmentalists in Brazil are mourning the death of a leading expert on uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, who was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest. Friends of Rieli Franciscato say he ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — One of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation said Thursday. The ...

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 ...

Some politicians have criticized Google Earth as a potential tool for terrorists. Privacy groups have raised alarms that it can be used as a tool for voyeurists and ...