Ethnic
Brazilian Indigenous Researcher Recovers Ancestral Knowledge, Finds Diabetes and Hypertension Treatment
The initial goal was to identify treatments for the three most common diseases among ...
The Role of the Paiter-Suruí Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon in the Preservation of Primates
The Paiter-Suruí people have a culture deeply rooted in their land: the Sete de ...
Niobium – A Radioactive Sword of Damocles Hangs over Brazil’s Northern Amazon
Balaio at the upper Rio Negro in the Northwest of the State of Amazonas ...
Brazil’s Shipwrecked Slave Ship Camargo Being Preserved with a Grant from the US
The U.S. Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro announced a US$ 295,000 grant to ...
Poverty in Their Homeland and Brazilian Desire of Whitening Drew Germans to Brazil 200 Years Ago
A lot of work awaited the German immigrants in their new homeland – Image: ...
Indian Activism Only Helps Feed the Economic System that We Reject, Says Brazilian Indian Leader Munduruku
Daniel Munduruku is far from naive. Whether he is traveling the world to talk ...
How Brazilian Indians Turned Cassava, a Poisonous Root Vegetable, into a Tasty Global Meal
The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice and wheat – are ...
Officially Brazilian Indigenous Leader Killed Himself. It Was Murder, Say Friends
Indigenous chief Merong Kamakã Mongoió, who was found dead in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, on ...
The 50-year-old Heroic Fight of Brazil’s Kapinawá Indigenous People Against Land-grabbers
In the Brazilian backlands, the jurema is a most willful tree: When you think ...
Bluewashing in Brazil: How an Ecotourism Project Is Expelling Indigenous Peoples from Their Land
When the notion of “ecotourism” was introduced in the late 1970s, it was intended ...
