Shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami furrowed his brow as he stared out at the skyscrapers and buildings looming through the window of his oak-panelled hotel room in New York City. “I’m here ...

Brazil's Federal Police is to investigate the sanitary crisis among the Yanomami people as a crime of genocide, Justice Minister Flávio Dino said Wednesday. Dino confirmed the opening of an ...

Yanomami from the Xitei and Waputha communities at a shelter set up by CASAI, the Center for Indigenous Health, in Boa Vista, Brazil, in March. The Yanomami come to Boa Vista to be treated for ...

BRASILIA, March 21 (Reuters) - Brazil has ousted almost all illegal gold miners from the Yanomami territory, its largest indigenous reservation, and will remove miners from six more reserves this ...

YANOMAMI INDIGENOUS LAND, Brazil, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Brazil is losing the upper hand in its battle to save the Yanomami Indigenous people, who are dying from flu, malaria and malnutrition brought ...

Today, the struggle of the Yanomami people, the largest group in the Amazon, is more urgent than ever. Over the past five decades, activist and photographer Claudia Andujar has worked with the ...

The 32,212 Yanomami and Ye’kwana, an ethnic group that shares the territory, couldn’t possibly watch over approximately 10 million hectares (24.7 million acres) on foot and canoes, but with ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Claudia Andujar has photographed the Yanomami in the Amazon during a lifetime of activism. At 91, she is still helping protect their rainforest ...

Scandal is nothing new to anthropology —think of the furore surrounding the discovery that Bronislaw Malinowski referred to the Trobriand Islanders as “niggers” in his field notes.