Looking at the landscape of dry and cleared mountains around her house, Marta Xavier de Oliveira remembered when it was a ...

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.

SÃO PAULO — The Ashaninka Indigenous people — who recovered their territory in the Brazilian border with Peru from settlers three decades ago, established and sustained their own governance, and grew ...

SAO PAULO, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Marcio Karai straddles a tree trunk near his home on the outskirts of Brazil's Sao Paulo, setting a small cube before him. The wooden box will serve as a new hive for a ...

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 ...

TOCANTINIA, Brazil — Fire began crackling like approaching rain on a recent morning in the Xerente Indigenous Territory in Tocantins in northern Brazil. But the Indigenous residents weren't afraid and ...

MARICA, Brazil — When Sávio Conrado Mura left his Indigenous village of stilt houses located deep in the Amazon rainforest in early April, he departed with the hopes of representing his people as a ...

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 ...

The recently concluded United Nations climate summit held at the edge of the Brazilian Amazon drew heightened attention to the vast rainforest's critical role in regulating global temperatures, and ...

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 ...