CHINESE LANDING, Guyana — One of Guyana’s smallest Amerindian villages is waging ... interlopers who carve up lands that provide food and medicine, and block access for the villagers ...

Amerindians were the first people to inhabit Guyana, which translates as "land ... Cassava crops, a staple food for millennia, fringe the settlement, which is linked to the nearest town by a ...

Amerindian communities in Guyana have raised concerns that Venezuela’s takeover may threaten decades-long battles for recognition of their customary lands and, in the process, endanger the ...