Tiny Tahiti Makes a Huge Splash in Brazil

ICTMN Staff
June 18, 2013
"TAH-HEE-TEE!...

Indigenous Protestors Wounded at Site of Disputed Land in Brazil

Rick Kearns
June 07, 2013
One indigenous man was killed and others wounded during a confrontation with police last week over disputed land that had been promised to the Terena people in the Matto Grosso do ...

Indigenous Protestors File Suit in Brazil After Violent Eviction in Rio

Rick Kearns
April 03, 2013
More than a week after the Brazilian Police’s Shock Battalion evicted indigenous and allied protestors using tear gas, pepper spray and batons from a contested site in Rio de Janei...

6 Questions With Chief Raoni of Brazil During His Last Visit to Paris

Dominique Godrèche
January 27, 2013
Chief Raoni Metuktire recognized by his labret, an ornamental disk worn by warriors on their lower lip showing they are ready to die for their land, has become synonymous with the ...

A Massacre or Misinformation? Illegal Gold Miners Allegedly Murder Indigenous Peoples in Venezuela; Government Denies Attacks

Barbara Fraser
September 13, 2012
Venezuelan officials have denied initial reports of a massacre of Yanomami people by illegal gold miners that allegedly occurred in early July and which, because of the remoteness ...

Dozens of Indigenous People Allegedly Killed by Gold Miners in Venezuela

Barbara Fraser
August 31, 2012
Illegal gold miners from Brazil may have killed dozens of Yanomami people in a remote area of the Venezuelan Amazon, according to reports from an indigenous organization there...

Belo Monte Dam: Not Over Yet, Construction Can Continue

Rick Kearns
August 29, 2012
The Brazilian Supreme Court has ruled that the construction of the controversial Belo Monte dam can resume, for now...

Belo Monte Dam: Forced to an Immediate Halt by Brazilian Judges

Rick Kearns
August 21, 2012
Brazil's Federal Regional Tribunal of the First Region, the highest court of appeals in the country, ordered an immediate halt to all construction of the controversial Belo Monte D...

Belo Monte Protests Continue in Brazil Despite Arrest Threats and Continued Construction

Rick Kearns
June 30, 2012
For more than two weeks indigenous activists and allies have shut down construction of part of the controversial Belo Monte Dam in Brazil, demanding an end to the project or for th...

The Amazon's Pirahã People's Secret to Happiness: Never Talk of the Past or Future

Dominique Godrèche
June 25, 2012
In 1977, Daniel Everett came to Amazonia to live among the Pirahãs. He came to convert them; instead, they converted him...

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