It was April 7, 2004, and Nacoça Pio was one of the first to learn of the bloodbath. A leader of the Cinta-Larga — an ...

Until recently, the Juma people seemed destined to disappear like countless other Amazon tribes decimated by the ... on the role of the leader, the first woman to do so. My sisters and my father ...

De Miguel’s lens trained on the women encouraged them to discuss how they were treated as they became the first female chiefs in their region of the Amazon, with Maisonnave interpreting Portuguese.

and regularly kidnap other tribes' women and children Sightings of tribe have increased as illegal logging and gas or oil projects force them from their forest homes Peruvian government bans boats ...

The Cinta-Larga — who, legend has it, once shadowed an Amazon expedition led by Theodore Roosevelt in the early 20th century ...