In 1995, explorer Johan Reinhard made a startling discovery on the frigid peaks of the Andes. In a crater near the summit of Ampato,...

BRASILIA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vetoed the core parts of a bill backed by the country's...

More than 10,000 undiscovered pre-Columbian archaeological earthworks — and likely as many as 23,000 — rest undiscovered throughout the Amazon basin, hidden beneath the...

A rare annular solar eclipse will be visible Saturday in Oregon and 7 other western U.S. states, along with parts of Central and South...

A21-year-old Indigenous activist from a remote Amazonian village will hand deliver a letter to the Cargill-MacMillan dynasty in Minneapolis on Thursday, calling on the...

Ten years after Brazilian authorities released extraordinary footage showing the existence of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe, their lands have still not been fully protected...

Both presentations offered attendees the chance to look at the world through the perspectives of indigenous peoples and how they can offer different solutions...

“Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” director Anna Hints keeps on bewitching her audience. Literally. “Maybe you are not wrong. Maybe it is witchcraft,” she says. “There is this...

Rat (1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008) October will be a cheerful and happy time for you, Rat. The month's energy will shine the brightest...

by Alberto Villoldo Ph.D. Alberto Villoldo, a classically trained medical anthropologist, has studied shamanic healing techniques among the descendants of the ancient Inkas for more...