Cannes: Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro’s Directors' Fortnight entry follows a group of native Yanomami people as they honor the past and try to forge a future. “The Falling Sky” takes its title from ...

The shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami tribe of the Brazilian Amazon describes the culture conflicts his people have faced in Western industrial society and global politics, issuing a plea for the ...

What drew you to this project? In the book Davi Kopenawa says that it’s his will to extend his world so that white people – non-indigenous people – can hear him and in particular learn how to dream.

EXCLUSIVE: The Indigenous Yanomami people of Brazil were largely left alone until the 1980s, when gold was discovered in their territory in the Amazon. Since then, illegal mining has brought “armed ...

David Rains Wallace is the author of "The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America." His latest book is "The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud ...

Contact the repository for terms of use. Scope and Contents Film doucments the daily life and rites of the Yanomamo living in Venezuela. Legacy Keywords: Rites and ...

SURUCUCU, Brazil, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Brazil has almost squashed the illegal gold rush that led thousands of wildcat miners into the Yanomami reservation in the Amazon rainforest and caused a ...

Brazil’s federal government celebrated a decrease in deaths and the decline in gold mining two years after agents started to evict invaders on the Yanomami Indigenous territory in the Amazon. The ...