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 ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) - Leaders of native tribes in Brazil issued a rallying call to protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people from what they called the "genocide, ...

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 ...

Nearly 150 Indigenous seed collectors from the Amazonian Bioeconomic Seed Network, the first of its kind in the state of Rondônia, traveled to neighboring Mato Grosso state to meet with Brazil’s ...

Michael Engel's curiosity about anthropology took him to the Xingu National Reservation in the Lower Amazon Basin, where he lived with the natives for a month. Aided by Brazil's top anthropologist, ...

Members of the Yarang Women’s Movement in Brazil have collected 3.2 tons of seeds over the past decade. The native seeds are sold to rural landowners and organizations to help replenish forests that ...

“They’re ripping out wood from our land. When we complain, they threaten us,”the cacique Wanggot, leader of the Yuru village of Arara ethnicity, told EFE at a meeting of various indigenous peoples in ...