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, ...

When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation, its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup. Wearing body paint and bird feathers, they join in ceremonial dances, combat ...

In May 2019, some 200 representatives from 16 different ethnicities gathered for the first women’s summit in the Xingu Indigenous Territory’s in the state of Mato Grosso. Feeling under threat from ...

Alto Xingu is nestled in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, along the banks of the Xingu River, deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. It is an indigenous territory, and more than a thousand ...