This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was tempting to think we were going back in time, slipping the bonds of the modern world for tribal life in one of the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Kayapó leaders and artists from the Central Brazilian Amazon are visiting Purdue University in early March. There will be a public film screening and discussion of Kayapó ...

Almost 20% of the Kayapó Indigenous Territory has burned in this year’s Amazon drought, the worst ever recorded in Brazil. The land has for years been subjected to illegal mining, cattle ranching and ...

A report reveals how Carbonext allegedly failed to adhere to international conventions and ignored Funai, Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency, in collecting signatures on contracts for generating ...

Krimej village indigenous Chief Kadjyre Kayapo, of the Kayapo indigenous community, poses for a photo on the path opened by illegal loggers (AP) The latest headlines from our reporters across the US ...

One day in 2014, Belém, a member of Brazil’s Kayapo tribe, went deep into the forest to hunt macaws and parrots. He was helping to prepare for a coming-of-age ceremony, in which young men are given ...

In a rainforest increasingly hollowed out by greed, Metuktire is a place where culture thrives and community endures. Tucked deep in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, the village is more than just home to ...

BRASILIA, April 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the new coronavirus reaches into Brazil's indigenous communities for the first time, one village trying to protect itself in the Amazon rainforest ...

Her face is painted, the crown of her head shaved, and her eyelashes and brows plucked in the traditional manner of her Amazon tribe. That tribe, the Kayapo, is the subject of the January National ...

The rule was ‘don’t go without a Kayapo.’ But one afternoon, even a member of the Brazilian indigenous tribe got Kimberley Whitestar lost in the jungle. It was last summer, during the University of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Battle cry: Tribal chief Kruwyt sees Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro as a ...

A stunning collection of pictures by Brazilian photographer Ricardo Stuckert offers a rare glimpse into the life of the remote tribes of Brazil. (Pictured) Asháninka tribe children play in the village ...