Below us lay Kayapo Indian country, five officially demarcated tracts of contiguous land that in sum make up an area about the size of Kentucky. The reserve, which is among the largest protected ...

the Chief of the Kayapo tribe heard the worst news of his entire life: Mrs. Dilma, the president of Brazil, has given her approval for the construction of an enormous hydroelectric central (the ...

The tribe is a subgroup of the Kayapo tribe, and lives on its 4.9-million-hectare (12.1-million-acre) Menkregnoti Indian reservation, Moura said. • Click here for FOXNews.com's Americas section.

Brazil's indigenous people lost one of their pioneering leaders to COVID-19 on Wednesday with the death of Paulinho Payakan, a Kayapó chief who led protests against the Belo Monte hydro-electric ...

Kayapo shaman in Brazil. Photo by Sue Wren “We hope to have the fund working fully by the end of the year,” he continued. “We will begin with the Kayapó Indigenous Lands, but our objective ...

Editor's note: The author is director of the Kayapo Project of the International Conservation Fund of Canada. The destruction of the Amazon in Brazil can be seen by satellite: Where logging roads ...

MAAP, a program of the organization Amazon Conservation, has documented more than 102 square kilometers (40 square miles) of mining-linked deforestation in the indigenous reserves of Kayapó ...

The underrepresentation of Indigenous voices in universities, including Stanford, has been a concern. However, on Sept. 24, a remarkable event hopefully signaled the beginning of turning those ...

The Munduruku and Kayapo people, along with tribes from the Xingu reservation said in a letter to the Transport Ministry that the work group was not doing its job of discussing the 1,000-km (620 ...

Indigenous leader of the Kayapo tribe, Cacique Raoni Metuktire, is honoured at the annual folklore festival known as Boi Bumba, in northern Brazil Artists of Garantido and Caprichoso Cultural ...