BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — From a distance, the small group lying on the sidewalk outside the city market could be confused with hundreds of homeless people spread through Boa Vista. But they are ...

BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a ...

Map of gold mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Land in December 2020 (Source: SMGI; Image courtesy of Hutukara Associação Yanomami and the Wanassedume Associação Ye’kwana via Courthouse News) Map of ...

Brazilian authorities declared a public health emergency in the territories where the native Yanomami community resides in Roraima and set up the Center of Operations for Emergencies in Public Health ...

Illegal miners known as garimpeiros are beginning to leave the lands of the Yanomami indigenous peoples after a federal raid to evict them was announced by President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, ...

Shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami furrowed his brow as he stared out at the skyscrapers and buildings looming through the window of his oak-panelled hotel room in New York City. “I’m here, in the city of ...

Claudia Andujar, "Collective house near the Catholic mission on the Catrimani River, Roraima state" (1976), mineral pigment print (from infrared film), 35.8 x 55.1 ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Many Yanomami, the Amazon's largest Indigenous tribe, have been contaminated with mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a report released on Thursday ...

“I’m in mourning because my people [are] dying … children are dying for nothing.” These are the words of Davi Kopenawa, author of “The Falling Sky” and a prominent leader of the Yanomami Indigenous ...

The indigenous Yanomami, who have lived in the remote tropical rainforests of northern Brazil for millennia, are under threat after a measles outbreak swept across the Amazon peoples. If emergency ...

Five Indigenous Yanomami infants have reportedly died from a preventable respiratory illness called pertussis, or whooping cough. The outbreak began Jan. 7 in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in ...