BRASILIA (Reuters) - When Europeans first arrived in the Amazon rainforest, their smallpox decimated local tribes. Then rubber tappers, gold miners and settlers brought malaria, measles and influenza.

MANAUS, Brazil — The warning from our guide made clear that this “forest walk” would be anything but a leisurely stroll. “Look before grabbing any branches because the ants bite. You will be in pain ...

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Coronavirus is spreading fast through Brazil's indigenous populations, with deaths caused by the disease increasing more than five-fold in the past month, according to ...

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...

One of Brazil’s largest diamond deposits exists in the territory of the Cinta Larga — an indigenous tribe in the country’s South West. The tribe have a legend about a group of indigenous women digging ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — One of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation said Thursday. The ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to his people less than 24 hours later, Brazilian ...

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