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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Fernanda Wenzel A study detailing the links between illegal gold mining and malaria cases in the Yanomami Indigenous ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — Many Yanomami, the Amazon’s largest Indigenous tribe in relative isolation, have been contaminated with mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a report ...

Yanomami from the Xitei and Waputha communities at a shelter set up by CASAI, the Center for Indigenous Health, in Boa Vista, Brazil, in March. The Yanomami come to Boa Vista to be treated for malaria ...

BOA VISTA, Brazil, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Dozens of indigenous children suffering from malnutrition and acute diseases have been hospitalized in northern Brazil, with relatives in hammocks holding their ...

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 ...