Brazilian officials say they have nearly rid Indigenous Yanomami territory in the northern Amazon of the thousands of miners who had been operating illegally in the region. More than a year later, ...

Premiering in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, the documentary spends time with the Yanomami people of the northern Amazon as they prepare for a sacred ritual and monitor the incursions of illegal miners ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar started working with Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s, most of them did not know what a ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Indigenous Yanomami people of Brazil were largely left alone until the 1980s, when gold was discovered in their territory in the Amazon. Since then, illegal mining has brought “armed ...

Napoleon Chagnon, a cultural anthropologist whose studies of the indigenous Yanomami people of the Amazon rainforest made them famous but whose methods provoked intense disputes among other ...