Nurse Lavinia Santos de Souza Oliveira first encountered an Indigenous population in the early 1980s. As an undergraduate student at the University of São Paulo (USP), she traveled with local doctors ...

The Volte Grande Project on the Xingu river is destined to be Brazil’s largest open-pit goldmine. But activists fear the environmental impact on indigenous communities. Caboco Juruna from the Juruna ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) – When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation, its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup. Wearing body paint and bird ...

In the Amazon, traditional communities and small producers use fire culturally. However, the main offenders in razing trees are large farms, followed by illegal miners, said Cristiane Mazzetti, forest ...

Anitta’s visit to the Kuikuro village in the Xingu Indigenous Park (MT) sparked controversy on social media. On that occasion, the singer took part in the Quarup, a funeral ceremony honoring the dead, ...

It’s the Cinemanifest Destiny of courageous white people to save the natives of unexplored territories from the ravages of the other white people, who are historically greedy for land, gold, ...

Every year during the dry season, the Kuikuro and eight other Indigenous groups of Upper Xingu gather to honor the dead. This important celebration, known as the Kuarup, marks the closure of a long ...

When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation in the Amazon, its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup. Wearing body paint and bird feathers, they join in ceremonial ...