A top expert on isolated Amazon tribes in Brazil was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest as he approached an indigenous group, friends and a police witness said on Thursday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few ...

LIMA, Peru—Pressed up against the remote jungle border with Brazil’s Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, Peru’s Amazonian region of Yavari Mirim has long been known as home to some of the last tribal ...

Peru is on the verge of rolling back several longstanding protections for Indigenous people and their territories, critics ...

When an Amazonian tribe tried to regulate the mines on their territory, they invited the violence of modern life into their ...

Disease decimated the isolated Nukak people of Colombia. Now, leaders are fighting deforestation to reclaim their lands.

The Indigenous leader on the threats to his Kayapó tribe, why ancestral knowledge matters — and the meaning behind his ...

This is where the crack is sold,” says Josiane Otaviano Guilherme, picking her way down a litter-strewn alley between the ...

There are many dangerous places in the world that no one has ever been able to reach. Today we will talk about such places.

Atxu Marima survived the flu that killed his family after a jaguar attack drove them from their Indigenous group in the ...

“North Sentinel [Island] is the Mount Everest of the missionary world,” the young American is told. “Start with something smaller.” John Allen Chau replies: “I’m not thinking small. I’m going big.” ...