(Pictured) Bejà, a Kayapo Indian, in the Xingu River in Mato Grosso. Speaking about his project, Stuckert remarked, "Indigenous people were the first to live in Brazil. We owe them an important ...

In 2005 the Brazilian Congress voted to revive the dam on the grounds that its energy was essential to the security of the rapidly growing nation. The Kayapo and other tribes affected by the plans ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil should not explore oil reserves in the Amazon region, because of the dangerous impact on local communities, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, of the Kayapo people ...

I’ll no longer be on this Earth for long and I want to meet you there with the Creator,” 93-year-old Raoni said in Kayapo ... people, one of the most attacked Indigenous groups in Brazil ...

Brazil's environment agency gave its definitive ... including an incident in 2009 in which Kayapo Indians armed with clubs and machetes attacked a state electricity official.

Brandishing bows and wearing traditional feather headdresses and body paint, dozens of protesters from the Kayapo Mekranoti ... native groups. In Brazil, 21,000 indigenous people have been ...