XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) – When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation, its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup. Wearing body paint and bird ...

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Director-writer Cao Hamburger's epic drama follows three Brazilian brothers and their lives in the tribe Xingu. By Neil Young Xingu Berlin Film Festival Still - H 2012 Three Brazilian brothers find ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - When Europeans first arrived in the Amazon rainforest, their smallpox decimated local tribes. Then rubber tappers, gold miners and settlers brought malaria, measles and influenza.

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil, Jan 16 (Reuters) - In the 1980's Brazil's first indigenous Congressman, Xavante chief Juruna, went around with a recorder to tape conversations with other politicians ...

Indigenous Amazonians have blocked a major highway in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso to protest a series of hydroelectric dams planned on the Xingu river, one of the Amazon’s largest tributaries, ...

Xingu National Park, created in 1961 and home to several indigenous tribes, is a protected wilderness area and reserve deep in the heart of Brazil. In the mid-20th century, tribes along the Xingu ...