The native people, who fear the social and environmental impact of the project, accuse the company of not consulting them ...

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -At 93 years old, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire is urging Brazil to empower native peoples to ...

Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.

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 ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's government should hear native Indians before deciding on the construction of a controversial $17.3 billion hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, rock ...

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

Brazil set out to host this year's United Nations climate talks with a promise to spotlight Indigenous peoples whose way of life depends on the Amazon rainforest. Those groups are seizing the chance.

In the velvet darkness the posse of 16 white men crouched noiselessly at the jungle’s edge. Just beyond, in a clearing, glowed the campfires of their prey: a tiny band of Brazilian Indians whose men ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Police in Brazil's Amazon rain forest are investigating three native Indians suspected of murdering and eating a 21-year-old handicapped man in a rare case of cannibalism, local ...