RIO DE JANEIRO — Lawmakers in Brazil approved a proposal that opponents argue will gut Indigenous land rights and environmental protection. The fast-track approval highlights the strength of Brazil's ...

* Indian supporters celebrate decision * Critics say ruling impedes progress By Raymond Colitt BRASILIA, March 19 (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court upheld the creation of a native Indian reservation ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian Indians are demanding the swift demarcation of their tribal lands, which they say are being invaded by loggers and ranchers. Leaders from some 70 Indian tribes, ...

It was once the cattle farm of a former congressman, but now his stately house in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul is a burned-out shell. Thatch huts are being built in the shade of ...

In the velvet darkness the posse of 16 white men crouched noiselessly at the jungle’s edge. Just beyond, in a clearing, glowed the campfires of their prey: a tiny band of Brazilian Indians whose men ...

Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.

The Kayapo ethnic leader said to the King in his native language via a translator that he had waited a long time to speak to ...

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s government on Monday began removing thousands of non-Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Police in Brazil's Amazon rain forest are investigating three native Indians suspected of murdering and eating a 21-year-old handicapped man in a rare case of cannibalism, local ...