The treatment of indigenous patients at the Hospital da Criança Santo Antônio (HCSA), in Boa Vista, capital of the northern state of Roraima, has incorporated indigenous people’s cultural traditions, ...

“I’m in mourning because my people [are] dying … children are dying for nothing.” These are the words of Davi Kopenawa, author of “The Falling Sky” and a prominent leader of the Yanomami Indigenous ...

Malnutrition and chronic disease are impacting remote Amazonian tribes because of an influx of ultra-processed foods. x The health conditions afflicting the Yanonami community in the Brazilian Amazon ...

In the Brazilian Amazon, Yanomami Indigenous people have been suffering a health crisis aggravated over recent years by the dismantling of Indigenous health care support services and the illegal ...

Government efforts to evict several thousand illegal miners from the Yanomami Indigenous Territory have so far been insufficient, as organized crime groups work with miners to confront state agents.

Leonardo Sakamoto on Lula's efforts to give Brazil's Indigenous Yanomami communities a reprieve. Morro do Ouro Gold Mine, Paracatu, Brazil. SkyTruth/Flickr The images of malnourished, sick or dead ...

Entrancing at times and eventually hard-hitting, Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha’s feature amplifies the voices of Indigenous people speaking directly to those who threaten their existence.