Communities where women marry multiple men exist all over the world. They often have one thing in common - IN FOCUS: From Himalayan hamlets to Amazonian tribes, the increasingly rare tradition is tied ...

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 ...

Mawé, a 24-year-old biology student, has one guiding belief - if the rainforest dies so will her Amazon tribe.

One of the most important Indigenous organizations is fragmented, jeopardizing its objectives of protecting the Amazon and the Amazonian peoples who inhabit it. In January 2023, Fany Kuiru Castro, a ...

One of Brazil’s largest diamond deposits exists in the territory of the Cinta Larga — an indigenous tribe in the country’s ...

For generations, women in the U.S. fought hard to earn the same privileges as men. Their efforts secured the rights to vote, own land, open a bank account and more. While these women awaited basic ...

A California judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon against the New York Times and TMZ ...