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.