Pahnin Mekragnotire, a 40-years-old Indigenous man of the Kayapo tribe, observes logs left by loggers during a surveillance patrol on the Menkragnoti Indigenous Land to defend the territory against ...

Almost 20% of the Kayapó Indigenous Territory has burned in this year’s Amazon drought, the worst ever recorded in Brazil. The land has for years been subjected to illegal mining, cattle ranching and ...

BRASILIA, July 29 (Reuters) - Indigenous people who see a threat to their ancestral lands from the construction of a railway to carry grains to a port in the Amazon on Monday pulled out of a work ...

Includes notes and photographs of Nimuendajú's "Nördliche Kayapó." Audiovisual and digital materials are restricted. Please contact the archives for information on the availability of access copies.

Some 3,000 Indigenous people gathered in Belém for the climate summit, and there were more than 400 representatives from 361 ...

BRASILIA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Brazilian federal prosecutors and civil rights groups are opposing a project to build a grains railway in the Amazon rainforest because of its potential impact on ...

In the photo taken with his phone, Takakudjyti Kayapó holds a round-bellied silver matrinxã fish in front of his chest, the fingers of his left hand wrapped around the base of its tail and the fingers ...

Out of the window is Brazil's cattle country. Huge Texan-style ranches are interspersed with ugly towns that grew up around Brazil's westward expansion of the 1970s and 80s. It's almost impossible to ...