Os indígenas awa-guajá da aldeia Awá, no Maranhão, enfrentam um surto de gripe no território. No último dia 10 de junho, um bebê, de um ano, morreu por complicações da doença enquanto tentava chegar ...

There are several groups of the Awa-Guaja in this part of the forest. Some have been known to exist since the 1970s. Others have been contacted in the early 1980s. Many are believed to still be in ...

SAO PAULO – A federal judge has ordered Brazilian mining company Vale to suspend its planned expansion of a rail line in northern Brazil because it would endanger the livelihood of an Indian tribe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo of an Awa Guajá couple was taken only five days before their first contact with outsiders in 1992. “Uncontacted peoples ...

SAO LUIS, Maranhao, Brazil, November 1, 2015 (ENS) – A stubborn forest fire in the Brazilian Amazon is threatening to consume the forest home of one of the last remaining uncontacted tribes on Earth – ...

The Awá of Brazil, known as Earth’s most threatened tribe, have written to the country’s Justice Minister telling him to ‘evict invaders urgently’, as news emerges that their hunting livelihood is ...

After a violent ambush, Karapiru wandered the forests of eastern Brazil for a decade. On July 16 he became another victim of the pandemic. Karapiru, a member of Brazil’s Awá tribe, poses in his home ...