So, the culture you build must be simple and ancient: a cohesive tribe where people are safe to be themselves, rely on one another, speak openly, and lift each other up — without turning competition ...

Melanie Henshaw is the Indigenous affairs reporter at InvestigateWest. She covers Indigenous communities in the region, ...

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard patrols their ancestral land armed with spears, machetes and a drone — risking their... UCAYALI, Peru — As they patrol their ancestral ...

UCAYALI, Peru — As they patrol their ancestral territory deep in the Amazon, some of the members of the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard carry spears. Others wield machetes. Several have traditional bows ...

Members of the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard who patrol the Peruvian Amazon, watching for coca crops being planted in the rainforest — a source of deforestation, violence, and bloodshed on their land.

Half of the world’s remaining uncontacted indigenous groups face extinction within a decade due to growing contact with missionaries, miners, drug traffickers and social media influencers, a new ...

Tupá Matis, near the Itui river in the Javari Valley, Brazil. The Matis were devastated by Western diseases after they were first contacted in the 1970s — over half of them died in the year following ...