Swiss-born photographer Claudia Andujar has spent five decades fighting to protect the rights of Brazil's Yanomami tribe. But the feisty octogenarian says her battle is not over. Andujar began ...

When 20-year-old Mimi Nichter (née Beeber) was released from a 20-day Palestinian terrorist hijack hostage ordeal in 1970, she was hit with a barrage of “Far Out! Tell us all about it." To which, raw ...

PALIMIU, Brazil—As two helicopters from Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama and the police landed in a clearing in the heart of the Amazon, the hard-bitten men who make a living illegally panning for ...

Five Indigenous Yanomami infants have reportedly died from a preventable respiratory illness called pertussis, or whooping cough. The outbreak began Jan. 7 in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in ...

Napoleon Chagnon, a cultural anthropologist whose studies of the indigenous Yanomami people of the Amazon rainforest made them famous but whose methods provoked intense disputes among other ...

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Anthropologists in Brazil have released a set of rare photos of an uncontacted Amazon tribe in an effort to save the group from the encroachment of illegal gold miners. The aerial photos show a ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - A federal court ordered the Brazilian government on Friday to expel an estimated 20,000 illegal gold miners from the Yanomami indigenous reservation to protect one of the most ...

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