(Pictured) Bejà, a Kayapo Indian, in the Xingu River in Mato Grosso. Speaking about his project, Stuckert remarked, "Indigenous people were the first to live in Brazil. We owe them an important ...

In 2005 the Brazilian Congress voted to revive the dam on the grounds that its energy was essential to the security of the rapidly growing nation. The Kayapo and other tribes affected by the plans ...

Brazil's environment agency gave its definitive ... including an incident in 2009 in which Kayapo Indians armed with clubs and machetes attacked a state electricity official.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Federal Police on Tuesday conducted ... The group operated within the Kayapo people's territory in Para state and is believed to be connected to an organization that ...

Brandishing bows and wearing traditional feather headdresses and body paint, dozens of protesters from the Kayapo Mekranoti ... native groups. In Brazil, 21,000 indigenous people have been ...