Juma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, BrazilJuma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, Brazil — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators ...

Babawru, a woman in her 40s, along with her mother and sister, believed they would be the last surviving members of the Akuntsu people An Amazon tribe facing extinction just welcomed a new baby boy ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of ...

JUMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators at times competes with the forest, a sign that ...

In this photo provided by Funai, Babawru Akuntsu, top, rests beside Akyp, her newborn son, at the Regional Hospital of Vilhena in Vilhena, Rondonia state, Brazil on Dec. 9, 2025, one day after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Until recently, the Juma seemed destined to disappear like countless other Amazon tribes. In the late 1990s, the last remaining ...