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 ...

That tribe, the Kayapo, is the subject of the January National Geographic cover story. The girl with the direct gaze personifies the tribe's determination to defend their culture and their homeland.

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.

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 ...

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 ...