Claudia Andujar, "Collective house near the Catholic mission on the Catrimani River, Roraima state" (1976), mineral pigment print (from infrared film), 35.8 x 55.1 ...
The treatment of indigenous patients at the Hospital da Criança Santo Antônio (HCSA), in Boa Vista, capital of the northern state of Roraima, has incorporated indigenous people’s cultural traditions, ...
“I’m in mourning because my people [are] dying … children are dying for nothing.” These are the words of Davi Kopenawa, author of “The Falling Sky” and a prominent leader of the Yanomami Indigenous ...
Malnutrition and chronic disease are impacting remote Amazonian tribes because of an influx of ultra-processed foods. x The health conditions afflicting the Yanonami community in the Brazilian Amazon ...
Deep in the remote Amazonian jungles in Venezuela lives an isolated tribe of Yanomami Amerindians who offer a key to “our microbial past,” according to Jose C. Clemente, PhD, assistant professor of ...
In the Brazilian Amazon, Yanomami Indigenous people have been suffering a health crisis aggravated over recent years by the dismantling of Indigenous health care support services and the illegal ...
Leonardo Sakamoto on Lula's efforts to give Brazil's Indigenous Yanomami communities a reprieve. Morro do Ouro Gold Mine, Paracatu, Brazil. SkyTruth/Flickr The images of malnourished, sick or dead ...
Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine, collaborating with a multicenter team of U.S. and Venezuelan researchers, have discovered the most diverse collection of bacteria yet in humans among an ...
The inoccultable and brutal massacre of four Yanomamis by Venezuelan soldiers has caused national and international repudiation when the arcos and the arrows of the indigenous people confronted the ...