Instead, Rocha and Carneiro da Cunha's entrancing must-see pronouncement of a film serves as a portal for the Yanomami to communicate with the "merchandise people," as they describe all of us ...

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 ...

Last week, Special Secretary for Indigenous Health Ricardo Weibe Tapeba said that there has been political interference in the public health care service of the Yanomami people in Roraima.

After the indigenous people allowed the transfer of the wounded from the scene to the hospital, the siege that the Yanomami have around the Parimabe Border Base has continued. The Prosecutor ...

The number of deaths among Brazil’s Yanomami indigenous people fell by 21 percent from 2023 to 2024, as per data from the ...

The disease is attacking especially indigenous Sanuma, a subgroup of the Yanomami ethnic group living in the border region. An estimated 3,873 indigenous people live in the area with the largest ...

What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet?

Blood samples collected in the 1960s from the last major isolated tribe in the Americas caused a commotion at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in New Orleans. At a ...

Yanomami shaman. Born in the northern Brazilian Amazon along the upper Rio Toototobi, a region that was at that time very remote from the world of white people, Davi Kopenawa has been confronted in ...

This has resulted in a profound contact with the Yanomami people. The Yanomami learnt from Andujar how to defend themselves against the overexploitation of the rainforest and their expulsion.