BOA VISTA, BrazilBOA VISTA, Brazil — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government ...
In 1992, Sydney Possuelo, then the head of Brazil's indigenous affairs agency Funai, led an operation to evict thousands of ...
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 ...
Illegal mining activities have caused socio-environmental problems, mainly due to the contamination of rivers with mercury ...
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The Yanomami child stares with blank eyes out of a body reduced to skin and bones by extreme hunger. The image of the Yanomami humanitarian crisis circled the globe early this year. On Jan. 21, the ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "The white people come here to take images and do not show them back to us," says Octavio Yanomami from the Marauia River, where the ...
BRASILIA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Illegal gold miners blamed for causing a humanitarian crisis on Brazil's largest indigenous reservation are asking authorities to help them leave, one of their leaders and ...
KONABUMA-TERI, Venezuela — Gripping bows and long, slender arrows — one for shooting animals and one for shooting birds — the Yanomami hunters emerged from the Amazon underbrush to inspect a Super ...
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