Indigenous lands are nonetheless under attack, stripped every year of thousands of hectares of native vegetation. Near the Capoto/Jarina territory, in an area inhabited by other branches of Raoni’s ...

How A Brazilian Chief Is Protecting Amazon From Illegal Miners, Loggers While Brazilian Chief Raoni Metuktire's homeland has so far managed to ward off the worst threats, one looms larger than ...

Indigenous territories have lost less than 2.0 percent of their native plant species since 2008, compared to 30 percent on non-Indigenous lands, according to the Socio-Environmental Institute, a ...

Kayapo territory has lost the equivalent of 22,000 football fields of forest to illegal gold mining, according to Greenpeace, which notes the growing presence of organized crime groups such as ...

You don't need a GPS to find the home turf of the Amazon's most famous resident, Brazilian Chief Raoni Metuktire. As you approach his Capoto/Jarina Indigenous territory in Mato Grosso state, large ...

The name with the most votes was Kayapó, which the zoo says comes from the indigenous people of Brazil. (South America is one of the native regions in which giant anteaters are found.) ...

The story of the wealth gap in Massachusetts has mostly been told in context of Black and white residents – leaving the Native American perspective largely ignored. A new report released Tuesday from ...

4. The indigenous peoples of the Amazon The indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest have a rich history of body modification, including piercings. Many tribes, such as the Kayapo and Yanomami ...

Abstract Blood samples from native Indians in the Kararao village (Kayapo), were analysed using serological and molecular methods to characterize infection and analyse transmission of HTLV-II.

Despite the Kayapo’s long-running suspicions, which stretch back nearly 20 years, Raoni’s inner circle believed he could not abandon Dutilleux. It was a decision, they said, rooted in the ...