In Xingu Indigenous Park in the Brazilian Amazon, rivers and lakes are natural arteries that provide life for animals and Indigenous communities, serving as a base for eating, bathing, social ...

Xingu Indigenous Park shields one of the last remaining large tracts of old growth rainforest in Brazil’s “arc of deforestation,” and is inhabited by dozens of Indigenous communities. The park ...

Xingu National Park, created in 1961 and home to several indigenous tribes, is a protected wilderness area and reserve deep in the heart of Brazil. In the mid-20th century, tribes along the Xingu ...

XINGU NATIONAL PARK, Brazil — Naked children are leaping from mango trees and tumbling into the mild water of the Xingu River without a care. But up by the grass-roofed long houses, the village elders ...

Nurse Lavinia Santos de Souza Oliveira first encountered an Indigenous population in the early 1980s. As an undergraduate student at the University of São Paulo (USP), she traveled with local doctors ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil: Indigenous leaders began a four-day tribal gathering in the Amazon on Tuesday to plan their opposition to far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's push to open their ...

Hope and betrayal are at the core of “Xingu,” a remarkable, fact-based docudrama from Brazil about government greed, indigenous rights and the poor souls caught between those extremes. The title ...

"Nothing happens by chance in Xingu." The motto of the Villas Bôas brothers, explorers of central Brazil in the 1940s who created the project for the Xingu National Park, was taken by the team that ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian indigenous leaders began a four-day tribal gathering in the Amazon on Tuesday to plan their opposition to far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's push ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil, Oct 20 (Reuters) - When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation, its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup. Wearing body paint and ...

Orlando Villas Boas, a Brazilian explorer who gained an international reputation along with his brothers for protecting the rights of Brazilian Indians, died Thursday at a Sao Paulo hospital. He was ...