Brazil Congress, on Thursday, overturned President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's veto, reinstating legislation that rolls back protections for Indigenous peoples' land rights.
Officials in Brazil reported that the Yanomami Indigenous people live in dreadful conditions because illegal gold miners threaten them with violence and block the delivery of essential goods.
Pope Francis flew to Canada and issued a historic apology for the abuse the country's state-funded residential Christian schools inflicted upon Indigenous people.
Mexico City is set to replace Italian explorer Christopher Columbus' statue with one of an indigenous woman after the explorer's statue was removed last year ahead of protests.
Despite being remote and isolated from any urban life, the coronavirus is reaching more indigenous groups in the Amazon. With no near healthcare infrastructures and a lack of medical workers, tribes are struggling to survive as the federal governments are handling other priorities.
Two elder leaders died from the symptoms of COVID-19. However, they do not know if it were the illness as they were not given tests and medical supplies to determine if it were the coronavirus. Read on to learn about the story of how this tribe left their land to the Amazon.
Find out here how a tribe from the Amazon fights against illegal logging in their ancestral land. (Photo : Reuters) Laercio Guajajara, a 35-year-old and part of the Brazilian indigenous tribe called Guajajara.
Comics from Peru portray the effects of climate change to the region and to the world. (Photo : Reuters) Peruvian artists collaborated to showcase the impact of climate change on the indigenous people in the country through the creation of a comic anthology.
The contribution is part of a larger donation to help global and evironmental causes. Actor and global activist Leonardo DiCaprio has donated $3. 4 million to help the people of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Mexican bloggers this week took offense to a Christmas-themed Coca-Cola commercial that the beverage maker had posted to digital media. Critics claim the ad belittled the country's indigenous community.
During his visit to Bolivia, Pope Francis on Thursday apologized for the "many grave sins" committed against native peoples of Latin America during colonial times.
Ancient peoples of South America believe Catholicism and annimism An ancient indigenous race in South America, the Aymara, combined their traditional beliefs of animism along with Catholicism, which was brought to the region by the Spanish in the 16th century, and currently live following the mix.
Bachelet announces plan to return ancestral lands to indigenous communities On Tuesday, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet revealed a plan for the government to buy and return disputed lands to some of Chile's indigenous people, according to a report from Reuters.
