The tribe is increasing in numbers, says Meirelles but notes that un-contacted groups in other regions of the Amazon are in danger of coming to conflict with each other due to illegal logging.

For example, mangrove systems along the Amazon coastline release about 8.4 million grams of dissolved neodymium into the ocean each year – 64 percent of the total neodymium input in this region.

Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, recently released unprecedented images of a group of nine men from an uncontacted tribe in the Massaco Indigenous Territory, in the Amazon region.

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The third annual State of Tribes took place at Colorado’s State Capitol on Thursday. In their speeches, leaders from the Ute Mountain Ute and the Southern Ute urged lawmakers to respect tribal ...

Their community consists of individuals ranging from children to the elderly, each playing a vital role in the tribe's survival. Tribal members, particularly women, children and elders, wear colorful ...

A Native American tribe in South Dakota lifted its banishment on Republican Gov. Kristi Noem in a letter Wednesday, offering its endorsement of her nomination to serve as secretary of Homeland ...

The graphics show congressional representation in the states of the Legal Amazon in 2023, stratified by political party (top) and state (bottom). The acronyms of the political parties are subject ...