In Brazil, government, health groups work to shield isolated Indian tribes from disease. July 23, 2014. By Dom Phillips. RIO DE JANEIRO ...

Threatened by disease and deforestation, the world’s last isolated tribes in the Amazon are on a collision course with modern society like never before, experts say. Entire cultures of people are the ...

As with Native Americans and, for that matter, many of the populations in the South Pacific Islands, Aborigines are faced with astonishingly high rates of diabetes — as high as 50 percent in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the ...

By some estimates, there are more than 100 “uncontacted tribes” in Brazil, mostly in the western reaches of the Amazon rainforest.These are indigenous peoples who live beyond the direct ...

Image via Shutterstock A young member of an isolated tribe got his first taste of the modern world. It must have been a shell-shocking experience for him. I can only ready hear a Hollywood exec's ...

One of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation said Thursday.

Here are the astonishing new aerial photos of a lost Indian tribe thriving in the jungles of Brazil, growing their own food and living in palm-roofed huts. The pictures of the tribe on the remote b… ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - An Indian tribe that has had very limited contact with the outside world has been located in a remote Amazon region, federal authorities said Friday.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Federal police are evicting settlers and loggers from an Amazon area that experts believe is home to one of the world’s most isolated Indian tribes, the Brazilian government ...