Cannes: Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro’s Directors' Fortnight entry follows a group of native Yanomami people as they honor the past and try to forge a future. “The Falling Sky” takes its title from ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Indigenous Yanomami people of Brazil were largely left alone until the 1980s, when gold was discovered in their territory in the Amazon. Since then, illegal mining has brought “armed ...

The shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami tribe of the Brazilian Amazon describes the culture conflicts his people have faced in Western industrial society and global politics, issuing a plea for the ...

Government efforts to evict several thousand illegal miners from the Yanomami Indigenous Territory have so far been insufficient, as organized crime groups work with miners to confront state agents.

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Carnival dancers took the biggest stage in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night with their faces painted red in a traditional Indigenous manner, while percussionists had “Miners out” ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — As a child in Puerto Ayacucho, gateway to Venezuela’s remote southern rainforests, Nelson Mendez was fascinated by tales of the isolated Yanomami Indians and their unusual diet.