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Some of the oldest harpoons ever found reveal Indigenous people in Brazil were hunting whales 5,000 years ago

Harpoons crafted from the bones of humpback and southern right whales show Indigenous groups in what is now Brazil were hunting whales 5,000 years ago. The discovery, which included 118 whale bones ...
The Conversation

Ethnoprimatology: research examines the traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples about primates in their territories

The Paiter-Suruí people have a culture deeply rooted in their land: the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land (TISS), on the border of Rondônia and Mato Grosso in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon. Known ...
Mongabay

What pushes Indigenous Munduruku people to mine their land in Brazil’s Amazon?

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The involvement of Munduruku people in illegal mining inside the Munduruku Indigenous Territory made Brazil’s efforts to stop it more complicated, ...
Reuters

In the Amazon, an Indigenous trek marks territory where Brazil is absent

Fifty Munduruku warriors hack their way with machetes through the undergrowth of the Amazon rainforest, marking the borders of their ancestral lands to finish a task that the Brazilian government has ...