Located at the border with Venezuela, the Yanomami territory is Brazil’s largest Indigenous land and houses 27,000 people — including isolated communities. For many years, however, they were ...

In a statement, the government said it had received word of the alleged attack by a group representing the Yanomami tribe, an indigenous people native to southern Venezuela. The area, along the ...

Last week, Special Secretary for Indigenous Health Ricardo Weibe Tapeba said that there has been political interference in the public health care service of the Yanomami people in Roraima.

In response, the federal government established the Casa de Governo (Government House) in March of last year to coordinate efforts to protect the Yanomami ... the clock. “People are also ...

The Swiss-born, Brazil-based photographer, activist and Holocaust survivor Claudia Andujar began documenting the lives of the Yanomami people back in the 1970s. Since then, she has dedicated her ...

In the vast wilderness of the rainforest in the south of Venezuela, near the origins of the Orinoco, live the Yanomami Indians, the most isolated people in South America. Their language alone ...