It was once the cattle farm of a former congressman, but now his stately house in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul is a burned-out shell. Thatch huts are being built in the shade of ...

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

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Dramatic new photos said to depict previously uncontacted Indians in the ...

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, May 10 (Reuters) - Brazilian Indians complained in an open letter to Pope Benedict on Thursday that the government threatened their livelihoods with big infrastructure projects and ignored ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. More than half a millenium after the first Catholic missionaries landed ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian Indians are demanding the swift demarcation of their tribal lands, which they say are being invaded by loggers and ranchers. Leaders from some 70 Indian tribes, ...

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 ...

SAO PAULO — About 300 Amazon Indians prevented workers from entering or leaving the construction site of a hydroelectric plant that protesters say is on an ancient burial ground, Brazil's official ...

BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Native Indians in Brazil have found survivors from a military plane that crashed into the Amazon rain forest with 11 people on board, the air force said on Friday, without ...

Brazil has become a global powerhouse when it comes to agriculture. Yet there's friction in the country's rural heartland: Cattle ranchers and... Brazil's Indians Reclaim Land, Citing Promises, Using ...