The Juma Indigenous tribe once numbered in the thousands. Years of settlers from the rubber and forestry industries decimated the population. In 2021, the last man in the patrilineal culture of the ...

JUMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators at times competes with the forest, a sign that ...

A tribe in the Amazon isolated from the rest of the world has been saved from extinction by its first female leader. It had been feared the Juma people were to disappear the same as other people in ...

Mr. Juma, who used the name of his people in Brazil, was in his late 80s when he died of Covid-19. By Michael Astor This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus ...

The last surviving man of the Juma tribe in the Brazilian Amazon has died of COVID-19, a case likely contracted from loggers, advocates said. Aruká Juma was between 86 and 90, according to reports.

Aruká Juma saw his Amazon tribe dwindle to just a handful of individuals during his lifetime. Numbering an estimated 15,000 in the 18th century, his people were ravaged by disease and successive ...

Juma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, BrazilJuma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, Brazil — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators ...

At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators at times competes with the forest, a sign that there are people here. Until recently, the ...

At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators at times competes with the forest, a sign that there are people here. Until recently, the ...