Sleeping in hammocks, the AP crew shadowed the Juma people for three days ... them to discuss how they were treated as they became the first female chiefs in their region of the Amazon, with ...

Several Indian women wore buttons from Gil’s jacket ... attuned to their rainforest environment. For far too many Amazon Indians, however, assimilation has brought only poverty, alcoholism ...

and regularly kidnap other tribes' women and children Sightings of tribe have increased as illegal logging and gas or oil projects force them from their forest homes Peruvian government bans boats ...

Although Tabita is passing on the ancient trade to her own daughter, many young women prefer other paths. Amazon midwives are aging ... of providing healthcare to riverine communities. "When people ...

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.

Procreation was confined to an annual event with a neighboring tribe. Baby boys were ... Finally, here was evidence of the women warriors that could have inspired the Amazon myths.

These women care for orphaned animals, but it's not the same as human breastfeeding. Deep in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, the Awa tribe lives in harmony with nature, practising traditions that ...

For members of the Sani Warmi collective in Amazonian Ecuador, the day begins before sunrise. They tend to the chacra — their ...

And men crowded around a phone, streaming a soccer match, while the group’s first female ... the Amazon. Enoque and Flora Dutra, a Brazilian activist who works with Indigenous tribes, sent ...