Tribunal upholds Indians’ land rights
A Brazilian federal tribunal has upheld the government’s recognition of the Apyterewa Indigenous territory, home to the Parakaná Indians in the Amazonian state of Pará.
A Brazilian federal tribunal has upheld the government’s recognition of the Apyterewa Indigenous territory, home to the Parakaná Indians in the Amazonian state of Pará.
Eight Indians, including five children, died in the Javari Valley in the Brazilian state of Amazonas in December.
Kayapó Indian leader Raoni has delivered a letter to Brazil’s President Lula, telling him, ‘We will not accept mining on Indigenous land’.
The Matis Indians of Brazil, stars of tomorrow's episode of 'Tribe' on BBC TV, are facing an epidemic which has already killed members of this tiny tribe.
Indigenous peoples and NGOs have met in the Amazon town of Altamira in Brazil to discuss their concerns about a series of hydroelectric dams planned for the Xingu river, one of the Amazon's main tributaries.
Brazilian Indians have reacted with anger to Pope Benedict XVI's claim during his recent trip to Brazil that their ancestors had been 'silently longing' to become Christians when Brazil was colonised 500 years ago.
The Ikpeng tribe of the Xingu Park in Brazil have written an impassioned letter demanding that plans to build a hydroelectric dam on their river be halted.
The Indians of the Javari Valley in the Brazilian Amazon have warned that rates of malaria and hepatitis in their communities are spiralling out of control, and that uncontacted tribes in the area are in grave danger.