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In the Amazon, Indigenous women bring a tiny tribe back from the brink of extinction

JUMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators at times competes with the forest, a sign that there ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Amazon Indigenous are leaving rainforest for cities — and finding urban poverty

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil — In 1976, Binan Tuku ventured to meet a Brazilian government's expedition on the banks of the Itui ...
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Peruvian rainforest defender from embattled Kichwa tribe shot dead in river attack

LIMA, Peru — A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that’s seen high tensions between Indigenous people and illegal loggers. Quinto Inuma Alvarado was ...

Indigenous Amazon activist fights to save forest and tribe's future

Mawé, a 24-year-old biology student, has one guiding belief - if the rainforest dies so will her Amazon tribe.