West Papua is the western half of the island of New Guinea and borders the independent country of Papua New Guinea to the East. It is home to around 300 different tribes, including some uncontacted ...

The Kawahiva are a small group of uncontacted Indians living in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. They are the survivors of numerous genocidal attacks. Similar atrocities have wiped out many tribes in the ...

What is your interest in the health of tribal peoples; have you studied anthropology as well as medicine? I have had a very long-term interest in the health of tribal people, ever since I had the ...

This page was last updated in 2010 and may contain language which is now outdated. Disturbing and graphic footage of two tribal Papuan men being tortured, allegedly by Indonesian soldiers, has led to ...

Driven to the edge: How the demand for electric cars is destroying uncontacted Indigenous people’s lives and lands in Indonesia ...

A unique uncontacted tribe could be wiped out by a massive Indonesian project to produce nickel for electric car batteries. A vast mining scheme on the island of Halmahera is part of Indonesia’s plan ...

In The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011), Steven Pinker promotes a fictitious, colonialist image of a backward “Brutal Savage,” which pushes the debate on tribal peoples’ rights back over a century ...

We, the Indigenous Peoples of the world, are the guardians who have an embedded customary relationship with our lands, waters and territories. Our ecosystems do not belong to us, we belong to them. We ...

This page was last updated in 2022 and may contain language which is now outdated. A devastating new report has revealed the full extent of the crisis in the Yanomami territory caused by a massive ...

An Indigenous Yine community in the Peruvian Amazon is reporting that uncontacted Mashco Piro people, who live nearby but rarely emerge from the forest, have recently come into their village. The ...

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) called on India to “suspend the implementation of the projects on the Great Nicobar and Andaman Islands until a full and independent ...

This page was last updated in 2013 and may contain language which is now outdated. Survivors of a gruesome massacre in which sixteen Yanomami Indians were killed at the hands of illegal gold-miners ...