*** For decades, the governments of Amazon nations showed little interest in protecting these groups; they often viewed them as unwanted remnants of backwardness. In the 1960s and ’70s Brazil tried, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few ...

Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few tribes still living in ...

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JUMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators at times competes with the forest, a sign that ...

MP: “Really? I know the Amazon a bit. Where in the Amazon?” KB: “With a small tribe of Indians—the Waurá. There are only a few hundred of them.” MP: “I came back from their territory just five days ...

But they do practice one chilling custom: like other Amazon Indians, they sometimes kill their babies. “We’ve never seen it happen, but they’ve told us they do it,” Magna says. “I know of one case ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazil’s government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few ...

(Adds survivor quote, details) By Raymond Colitt BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Nine people survived a crash landing on a river in Brazil's Amazon rainforest after native Indians alerted authorities who ...

BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Native Indians in Brazil have found survivors from a military plane that crashed into the Amazon rain forest with 11 people on board, the air force said on Friday, without ...

A Times story about the arrival of high-speed internet in a remote Amazon tribe spiraled into its own cautionary tale on the dark side of the web. By Jack Nicas Jack Nicas wrote the original story on ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — It was dusk on April 14 when Francisco Kuruaya heard a boat approaching along the river near his village in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. He assumed it was the regular delivery boat, ...