The Niwano Peace Foundation will award the 43rd Niwano Peace Prize to Benki Piyako, an indigenous spiritual leader of the Ashaninka people in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, in recognition of his ...

Babawru, a woman in her 40s, along with her mother and sister, believed they would be the last surviving members of the ...

The Mashco-Piro tribe, believed to be the world's largest uncontacted indigenous group, has been forced from their Amazon rainforest home in Peru ...

An 'uncontactable' tribe hidden deep in the Amazonian rainforest are the most secluded in the world - yet they are facing a ...

One official calls a newborn boy "a symbol of the resistance of the Akuntsu people, but also a source of hope for Indigenous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo of an Awa Guajá couple was taken only five days before their first contact with outsiders in 1992. “Uncontacted peoples ...

When Brazil’s Indigenous protection agency announced that the Akuntsu people — a tribe reduced to just three women — had celebrated their first childbirth ...

Not even three months after John Chau’s deadly venture in the Indian ocean, another American missionary has generated controversy over trespassing on protected indigenous land. Steve Campbell, a ...

As they advanced in age without a child to carry on the line, many expected the Akuntsu to vanish when the three remaining ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andre Correa do Lago, President of COP30, walks past indigenous people blocking the entrance to the COP30 climate summit. Thorsten ...

BELEM, Brazil — Indigenous people filled the streets, paddled the waterways and protested at the heart of the venue to make their voices heard during the United Nations climate talks that were ...

BRASILANDIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River on Tuesday as it aims to expand production in untapped regions despite protests from ...