APIWTXA VILLAGE, Brazil (AP) — It was just before dawn when the Ashaninka people, wearing long, tunic-like dresses, began singing traditional songs while playing drums and other instruments. The music ...

New photos and rare video of an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the Peruvian Amazon show a collection of the people emerging from a rain forest – perhaps due to encroaching logging operations. The ...

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Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...