Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a grand welcome from the Indian community upon his arrival in Rio de Janeiro for a four-day visit to Brazil during which he will participate in the 17th BRICS ...

The Mebêngôkre-Kayapó Indians of the Brazilian Amazon are the focus of an exclusive photographic exhibit and presentation at Purdue this month. Diego Soares, a visiting professor at the Center for the ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) – Brazil’s government says more than 100 protesting Indians are expected to abandon the offices of the federal indigenous affairs agency and return to their villages Wednesday.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva welcomed Indian companies to manufacture drugs and pharmaceuticals in Brazil, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Tuesday (local time). While addressing ...

Why are indigenous tribes so concerned about what Cargill is doing in the Brazilian Amazon and what are they doing about it?

BRASILIA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Suicides among native Indians in Brazil rose sharply last year as social despair grew and living conditions worsened, even as fewer were killed in violent land disputes, a ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - A growing conflict over land ownership in Brazil's farm belt turned bloody on Thursday when an Indian was shot dead during the violent eviction of some 200 natives from a disputed ...

India Brazil Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi upon his arrival at the Presidential Palace for his ceremonial reception in New Delhi, ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...