Yanomami meet to discuss mining and health
Two hundred Yanomami representatives, from Brazil and Venezuela, are meeting this week for the third general assembly of Hutukara, the Yanomami Association.
News from the Yanomami
Yanomami denounce illegal gold miners
Two Yanomami Indian communities have written to the Brazilian government, denouncing the invasion of their land by illegal gold miners.
Yanomami slam government over mining
Yanomami and Yekuana Indians from two communities have denounced the Brazilian government’s attempts to persuade them to accept large-scale mining on their land.
UK’s Channel 4 to expose mining on Yanomami land
The acclaimed Channel 4 current affairs series, ‘Unreported World’, is to broadcast a documentary tomorrow exposing the devastating effects of illegal goldmining on the land of the Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon.
Yanomami - ‘Mining project will bring death to our people’
Yanomami Indian leaders in Brazil have claimed that a project to open Indigenous land for mining would ‘bring death’ to their tribe.
Land invasion forces Yanomami into local town
A group of Yanomami Indians have spent the past ten days camped in a local Brazilian town following the invasion of their land by goldminers and ranchers.
Illegal goldminers invade Yanomami land
More than a thousand illegal goldminers have invaded the land of the Yanomami Indians in Brazilian Amazonia.
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami threatened with death
A rancher who is illegally occupying land within the Yanomami Indigenous territory in Brazil has threatened to kill renowned Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa.