Nurse Lavinia Santos de Souza Oliveira first encountered an Indigenous population in the early 1980s. As an undergraduate student at the University of São Paulo (USP), she traveled with local doctors ...

Anitta’s visit to the Kuikuro village in the Xingu Indigenous Park (MT) sparked controversy on social media. On that occasion, the singer took part in the Quarup, a funeral ceremony honoring the dead, ...

"Nothing happens by chance in Xingu." The motto of the Villas Bôas brothers, explorers of central Brazil in the 1940s who created the project for the Xingu National Park, was taken by the team that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indigenous people of Yudja tribe, perform a greeting dance during a four-day pow wow in Piaracu village, in Xingu Indigenous Park, ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil: Indigenous leaders began a four-day tribal gathering in the Amazon on Tuesday to plan their opposition to far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's push to open their ...

Aritana died Wednesday after he was diagnosed with COVID-19 about two weeks ago. Aritana was one of the last speakers of the language of his tribe, Yawalapiti He worked to create the Xingu National ...