XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Leaders of native tribes in Brazil issued a rallying call to protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people from what they called the ...

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Indigenous Amazonians have blocked a major highway in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso to protest a series of hydroelectric dams planned on the Xingu river, one of the Amazon’s largest tributaries, ...

MP: “Really? I know the Amazon a bit. Where in the Amazon?” KB: “With a small tribe of Indians—the Waurá. There are only a few hundred of them.” MP: “I came back from their territory just five days ...

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Xingu National Park, created in 1961 and home to several indigenous tribes, is a protected wilderness area and reserve deep in the heart of Brazil. In the mid-20th century, tribes along the Xingu ...

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