Babawru, a woman in her 40s, along with her mother and sister, believed they would be the last surviving members of the ...

Indigenous women in Brazil have traditionally been excluded from taking on leadership roles that were often filled by tribal patriarchs. But those roles shifted in recent years as threats against ...

Juma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, BrazilJuma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, Brazil — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators ...

Three women lived for years as the last members of the Akuntsu people, who were decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s and ‘80s.

When Brazil’s Indigenous protection agency announced that the Akuntsu people — a tribe reduced to just three women — had celebrated their first childbirth ...

As they advanced in age without a child to carry on the line, many expected the Akuntsu to vanish when the three remaining ...

The Mashco-Piro tribe, believed to be the world's largest uncontacted indigenous group, has been forced from their Amazon rainforest home in Peru ...

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 ...

Three women lived for years as the last members of the Akuntsu people, who were decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s and ‘80s In this photo ...

JUMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) — Until recently, the Juma seemed destined to disappear like countless other Amazon tribes decimated by the European invasion. In the late 1990s, the last ...