Gangs and drug traffickers are increasingly encroaching on Ashaninka land and using the rivers in the Amazon and adjacent ...

By Letícia Klein IBIRAMA-LA KLÃNÕ INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — Zág, pronounced “zã,” is the Xokleng word for the Brazilian ...

Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples said Friday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Peru’s Ministry of ...

On a vast island in northern Brazil, an unusual debate about cattle and conservation is taking place. Federal authorities last year ordered the removal of herds from protected Indigenous territory ...

When you think of a South American rainforest, you probably don't imagine biting winds, heavy frosts and freezing ...

Delegation sent to Brasília after gunmen from organised crime group enter homes in western Amazon ...

BRASILIA — Thousands of Indigenous people marched in Brazil’s capital on Tuesday to protest what they say are violations of their land rights by large corporations advancing farming, logging and ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous people from across Brazil gathered in the capital for the annual Free Land Encampment rally to demand that the government honor longstanding promises, like the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A week before what the Indigenous Krenak people now call “the death of the river,” they say they could feel it coming. The birds stopped singing, the air grew heavy, and an unusual ...

MARICA, Brazil, May 6 (Reuters) - From a village on the coast of Rio de Janeiro state, Indigenous people have founded a professional soccer team made ‌up solely of players from across Brazil, turning ...

Brazil's indigenous movement renewed its call for the creation of a National Indigenous Truth Commission (CNIV) through a ...