In the velvet darkness the posse of 16 white men crouched noiselessly at the jungle’s edge. Just beyond, in a clearing, glowed the campfires of their prey: a tiny band of Brazilian Indians whose men ...

They hunt with their hands, kill violently with arrows, and have never encountered the modern world. Deep within the Amazonian rainforest, the indigenous Mashco-Piro tribe lives among the forest floor ...

In the jungle valleys, back from the southwest shore of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, live the world’s most determined isolationists: the celebrated Motilon Indians. They are naked, few in number and ...

After some 400 years of population decline beginning soon after the arrival of Columbus in the Western Hemisphere, the Native American population north of Mexico began to increase around the turn of ...