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 ...

It’s the Cinemanifest Destiny of courageous white people to save the natives of unexplored territories from the ravages of the other white people, who are historically greedy for land, gold, ...

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 ...

Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area lies in the ecologically rich Xingu Basin in the Brazilian Amazon and spans some 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres) — an area more than half the ...

Alto Xingu is nestled in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, along the banks of the Xingu River, deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. It is an indigenous territory, and more than a thousand ...

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 ...