Meanwhile, Brazil’s Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples, or Funai) estimates around 100 uncontacted Indigenous groups still live deep in the Amazon ...

The young man from an Indigenous Amazonian tribe is receiving medical treatment, while authorities prepare to attempt ...

Some council delegates and community members are concerned that so few people had seen the terms of an agreement to ship the uranium.

Man from uncontacted tribe filmed emerging from Amazon and asking for fire - A member of the nearby Juma tribe was expected ...

In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil's Amazon, the ...

A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, the country’s Indigenous ...

Of the world's 100 known un-contacted tribes, over half are in Brazil or Peru and are in danger of being driven off their land, says Survival International. Also a threat to isolated groups is the ...

“The most important aspect is that people like the Great Nicobari [indigenous tribes] are being completely sidelined,” said a researcher who has worked extensively on the islands. “It’s colonialism – ...

The Amazon is home to numerous venomous animals, dangerous tribes, and diseases like malaria. Getting lost in the dense jungle can easily be a death sentence. North Sentinel Island is home to the ...

A Navajo Nation mural of a person wearing a mask made from a Blue Bird flour sack sits near Kayenta, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation last summer. Photo: David McNew/Getty Images ...

When director Justin Lin’s new indie feature “Last Days,” about 25-year-old missionary John Chau who was killed when he made contact with an isolated tribe, ran into financial woes ...

Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, recently released unprecedented images of a group of nine men from an uncontacted tribe in the Massaco Indigenous Territory, in the Amazon region.