By Timothy J. Killeen Gold was central to the colonization of the Mato Grosso state area. The state’s current capital city, Cuiabá, was founded by bandeirantes, settlers in Portuguese Brazil ...

INPA 59493, 99.6 mm SL, Brazil, Pará, Senador José Porfírio ... The new species is named in honor of the Cacique Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapó people. Raoni is one of the most active indigenous ...

Indigenous leader of the Kayapo tribe, Cacique Raoni Metuktire, is honoured at the annual folklore festival known as Boi Bumba, in northern Brazil Artists of Garantido and Caprichoso Cultural ...

Editor's note: The author is director of the Kayapo Project ... Xingu river basin of Brazil, but doesn't penetrate. These are the borders of the lands of indigenous tribes. The massive green ...

It will devastate the Xingu River which Chief Raoni's people, the Kayapo, need for their very existence. It will be the third largest dam in the ... will be wiped out. Brazil's president, Dilma ...

It will devastate the Xingu River which Chief Raoni's people, the Kayapo, need for their very existence. It will be the third largest dam in the ... will be wiped out. Brazil's president, Dilma ...

An indigenous tribe that blocked a key grain export route in the Amazon last week claiming compensation for environmental damage said on Wednesday they failed to reach agreement with Brazil's ...

FILE PHOTO: The Kayapo indigenous people are ... equips autocrats with spy tech The Kayapó tribe says they failed to reach an agreement with Brazil's government and will instead await a court ...

For a long time now in the Xingu region, Pará, Brazil ... as the dam suffocates the river. Iawa built a family, found a land and prospered. Today she is revered as a tribe's elder, consulted ...

NOVO PROGRESSO, Brazil, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Members of the Kayapó indigenous tribe blocked a key grains ... until it was fully paved this year. The Kayapo, who live on the adjacent Menkragnoti ...

Brazil saw over 30,000 fires sweep through its rain forests in 2019 Image: Reuters/U. Marcelino Indigenous leader Cacique Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapo tribe was one of several Amazon indigenous ...

He was a member of the Mebengokre people, better known as Kayapó ... Paiakan fought for the inclusion of Indigenous rights in Brazil’s Federal Constitution, protested the Belo Monte (Kararaô) ...