When Portuguese colonisers arrived in Brazil in 1500 the country had at least five ... Some of this can be accounted for by tribes like the Naua, who lost their cultural traditions through contact ...

Jonathan Yardley's e-mail address is [email protected]. LOST WHITE TRIBES The End of Privilege and the Last Colonials In Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Brazil, Haiti, ...

They said some 250 members of the long-lost Naua tribe, which once dominated Brazil's state of Acre, emerged from their jungle isolation. "They said they should not have to leave their land ...

A leader of the Cinta-Larga — an indigenous tribe who for centuries lived in isolation in the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil — Pio knew that tensions were high between his people and the white ...

As Flávia Milhorance and André Spigariol of the New York Times report, the man’s death marks the first recorded disappearance of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil ... are being lost to rapacious ...

together with the National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (Funai), the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama), and Federal security and armed forces.

wants the territory to become a preserve to honor the memory of the lost tribe, according to Survival International. Six other known uncontacted tribes in Brazil, as well as many more across the globe ...

Real tribe. Not really lost. Turns out, the photos were a hoax to call attention ... one of the handful of sertanistas - experts on indigenous tribes - working for the Brazilian Indian Protection ...

This story takes us to the western Amazon, to one of the most remote parts of Brazil. Deep in the rainforest ... nor the name of his tribe. MARTIN: And Watson says that's the point.