Native Indians and communities of slave descendants in Brazil are pushing for a greater say in shaping laws and public works projects, creating a potential minefield for business and government in ...

Her critical eye also turns to the more recent anthropological analyses, which focused on the relationship between Brazilian Indians and white people in Brazil, thus reducing everything to cultural ...

Brazil's Indians Reclaim Land, ... While the government has dithered, many native Brazilians have taken matters into their own hands, taking over land that is owned by large-scale farmers.

Brasilia - Police in Brazil's Amazon rain forest are investigating three native Indians suspected of murdering and eating a 21-year-old handicapped man in a rare case of cannibalism, local ...

Xingu is Brazil’s oldest and probably most successful Indian reservation -- 10,800 square miles of pristine rainforest where 14 tribes live much as their people have for thousands of years.

For many of Brazil's poorest people ... from the government not only to protect the forest, but to give the native Indians better conditions of living, says Valdeci. "This has never happened ...

Police in Brazil's Amazon rain forest are investigating three native Indians suspected of murdering and eating a 21-year-old handicapped man in a rare case of cannibalism, local authorities said ...