After traveling more than 35 hours by land, air and sea from Mato Grosso, Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous Park, Brazilian Indigenous activist and Chief Tapi Yawalapiti arrived on Northwestern’s Evanston ...

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) – When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation, its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup. Wearing body paint and bird ...

Anitta had the honor of getting her body painted by indigenous people during a Kuarup ceremony in Xingu — but it was her sculpted backside that sparked endless online chatter. The singer, 32, took ...

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Introduction -- Chief's speech : Wauja ancestors, political authority, and belonging -- Bringing spirits : ritual curing and Wauja relations with spirits -- Kuri sings : intergroup rivalry and ...

The deep timbre of bamboo flutes emerges from within a darkened Indigenous communal house in the Amazon rainforest, followed by dancers in body paint and musicians rhythmically stomping their feet ...

The fervor surrounding Lamine Yamal, the FC Barcelona and Spanish national team star, has crossed borders and reached even the most remote Indigenous villages deep in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Pajé ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. For thousands of years, Indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon have used fire in their farming practices to preserve natural resources and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Amazon Rainforest is known in part as one of the biggest carbon reserves on the planet (despite our ...