Now many of Brazil's 850,000 indigenous ... Only one of them is in the Amazon. Still, many tribes remain on edge, recalling epidemics that ravaged native populations in recent memory.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – One of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation said Thursday.

marking the first time in decades that members of an uncontacted tribe had chosen to visit a settled population. Brazil's National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) said they later travelled to the area ...

More than half the world's 100 uncontacted tribes live in Brazil or Peru, Survival International says ... an official in the Brazilian government's Indian affairs department, as saying. "This is very ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – An Indian tribe that has had no formal contact with Western civilization has been located in a remote Amazon region, federal authorities said Friday. The Metyktire tribe ...

For recently contacted Indian tribes, simple respiratory diseases can ... Spooner said by phone from London. Just 818,000 of Brazil’s 191 million people are indigenous, according to the most ...

A remarkable story of survival has emerged in Brazil, involving an indigenous Indian tribe that was thought to have died out more than half a century ago. The authorities have identified about 250 ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil, Jan 18 (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 ...

Brazil's National Indian Foundation via AP The last member of a besieged Indigenous tribe in Brazil has died, apparently of natural causes. Activists are holding up his legacy as a symbol of both ...

RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — A newly released video captures the first fleeting images of an indigenous tribe living in Brazil’s Amazon jungle that is thought to have had very little contact ...

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is home to dozens of Indigenous tribes that have chosen to remain ... policy is the responsibility of the National Indian Foundation, or FUNAI, the federal agency ...