BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Coronavirus is spreading fast through Brazil's indigenous populations, with deaths caused by the disease increasing more than five-fold in the past month, according to ...

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Researchers have discovered (and photographed) what they say is a tribe of people in the Amazonian rainforest that have never had contact with any facet of modern society. Photographs were taken by ...

The last member of a besieged Indigenous tribe in Brazil has died, apparently of natural causes. Activists are holding up his legacy as a symbol of both the genocide and resilience of his people, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO The Brazilian government has said it will employ heat-seeking radar in a last-ditch attempt to save the country`s remaining groups of isolated Indians. The body-heat sensors will be ...

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BRASILIA (Reuters) - When Europeans first arrived in the Amazon rainforest, their smallpox decimated local tribes. Then rubber tappers, gold miners and settlers brought malaria, measles and influenza.