FILE - A Brazil Environmental Agency helicopter flies over an illegal mining camp during an operation to try to contain it in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2023. The ...

In the vast wilderness of the rainforest in the south of Venezuela, near the origins of the Orinoco, live the Yanomami Indians, the most isolated people in South America. Their language alone reflects ...

Yanomami Indians in the village of Irotatheri spoke with journalists through a guide, who translated their accounts that there had been no violence. The government flew in journalists by helicopter ...

Ten thousand years ago we were all hunter-gatherers. Now, the Yanomami Indians in the Venezuelan Amazon are the last large group of semi-nomadic hunter gathers remaining on earth. For thousands of ...

(AP) A group of Yanomami Indians say a remote community in the Amazon jungle suffered a recent massacre of unknown proportions, with people from a nearby village reporting dozens slain by gold miners.

* Quick medical action helps Venezuela's Yanomami Indians * Six deaths investigated as officials monitor situation By Frank Jack Daniel PUERTO AYACUCHO, Venezuela, Nov 9 (Reuters) - A potentially ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar started working with Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s, most of them did not know what a ...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan health workers say an epidemic that may be malaria has killed dozens of people, decimating three villages of the Yanomami Indians, whose struggle for survival in a ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Authorities said Wednesday they would investigate claims that illegal Brazilian gold miners massacred a village of Yanomami Indians deep in the Amazon jungle. It was not clear how ...

Darkness in El Dorado chronicles the devastation and death of perhapsthousands of Venezuelan Yanomami Indians, two careers, and any pretense of scientific objectivity. It is the story of the other ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Many Yanomami, the Amazon's largest Indigenous tribe, have been contaminated with mercury coming from widespread illegal gold mining, according to a report released on Thursday ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Many Yanomami, the ...