This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was tempting to think we were going back in time, slipping the bonds of the modern world for tribal life in one of the ...

The giant Belo Monte hydroelectric dam complex built on the Xingu River in the northern Brazilian state of Pará is the fourth-largest dam in the world (after the Chinese Three Gorges Dam and Xiluodu ...

On the last day of their visit, a health team volunteer takes time off to play with a Kayapo child. Photos by Reuters An Amazon basin people finds ways to survive and thrive as a modern world ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's indigenous people lost one of their pioneering leaders to COVID-19 on Wednesday with the death of Paulinho Payakan, a Kayapó chief who led protests against the Belo Monte ...

Xikrin women spend much of their time painting the bodies of their family and friends. The designs are passed down from mother to daughter, and the Xikrin often say that they do not feel like ...

The Kayapó people's battle to save their land from flooding as the Bel Monte dam is built follows a pattern across the Americas The man pictured above is Raoni Txucarramãe, chief of the Kayapó people, ...

The Kayapó people of the Amazon are excellent guardians of the forest but big business interests and a change to Brazil's constitution could threaten the ecosystem they have managed to preserve until ...

InfoAmazonia’s Amazônia Minada project has found an unusual rise in demand to mine for manganese last year in Brazil, one of the world’s top producers of the metal. Previously, only 1% of mining bids ...

This article analyzes a more than two-decade long partnership between the Kayapó, an Amazonian indigenous group, and a large environmental NGO. Drawing from political ecology and science and ...

Her face is painted, the crown of her head shaved, and her eyelashes and brows plucked in the traditional manner of her Amazon tribe. That tribe, the Kayapo, is the subject of the January National ...

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In the photo taken with his phone, Takakudjyti Kayapó holds a round-bellied silver matrinxã fish in front of his chest, the fingers of his left hand wrapped around the base of its tail and the fingers ...