A top expert on isolated Amazon tribes in Brazil was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest as he approached an indigenous group, friends and a police witness said on Thursday.

When an Amazonian tribe tried to regulate the mines on their territory, they invited the violence of modern life into their ...

More uncontacted people live in Brazil's Amazon rainforest than anywhere else in the world. Consisting of about 100 isolated groups, they are aware of the outside world and some have limited trading ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) A Brazilian government expedition has made contact with members of a remote Amazon Indian tribe never before exposed to Western culture, a local news agency said Sunday.

The Brazilian military wrapped up on Monday a three-week operation that provided medical care to the Amazon's Guajajara tribe hit by COVID-19, in response to criticism that Brazil was not protecting ...

Indigenous rights group Survival International condemned a US missionary organization Wednesday for a project to use a helicopter to try to evangelize isolated tribes in the Brazilian Amazon. An ...

After the death in the Brazilian forest of an Indigenous man who was thought to be the last of his tribe and who shunned all contact with outsiders, Amazonian church leaders said it is more important ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peru’s Congress rejected Friday a proposal to create a long-delayed Amazon reserve meant to protect uncontacted Indigenous tribes living in voluntary isolation along the border ...