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A record 6 Native Americans elected to Congress, here’s where they stand on climate

March 16, 2021 By Angely Mercado And Naveena Sadasivam

Indigenous peoples have a critical role to play in the fight against climate change.

Brazilian state of Amazonas enters the most serious phase of COVID-19

January 14, 2021 By Izabel Santos

The coronavirus pandemic in Amazonas state has reached the highest level in Brazil's color-coded severity rankings system.

TV’s forgotten: Indigenous and working-class series

December 21, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Few series on television focus either on the Earth’s first inhabitants, the Indigenous, now mostly quartered in slums across the world, or on workers, their lives, and daily concerns. We’ll be discussing the series Mystery Road,...

Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami leader and shaman, elected to Brazilian Academy of Sciences

December 21, 2020 By Mônica Nunes

From December 2018 to April 2019, the Yanomami people were the subject of an extraordinary exhibition in São Paulo, The Yanomami Struggle, by photographer Claudia Andujar and the Moreira Sales Institute [IMS] which presented the Yanomamis’...

Indigenous people block Trans-Amazon Highway protesting industrial drought

December 2, 2020 By Movimento Xingu Vivo para Sempre

In 2020, the Middle Xingu region suffered one of the most severe droughts of the past 50 years.