Meeting in Mexico, the sixth Interamerican Indigenist Congress demanded protection for Brazil’s Indians, most of whom constituted the last primitive tribes outside New Guinea.

Speeding the Ghost. Most Indians believe in a life after death. But among the Caingang tribe of Brazil the souls of the dead did not want to leave this earth, and offered stout resistance.

An unidentified, indigenous man believed to be the last of his tribe has died in the western Brazilian Amazon.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — One of Brazil’s last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation said Thursday.

The last member of an Indigenous tribe in Brazil has died, apparently of natural causes.

An Indigenous man who survived entirely alone and without contact in the Brazilian Amazon for decades after his tribe was steadily killed off has died, a local government agency announced Saturday ...

The "Man of the Hole" lived in isolation and resisted contact for decades after the rest of his tribe was massacred. His death precedes Brazil's elections, where Indigenous rights are on the ballot.

Known in Brazil as the “man of the hole,” he had lived alone for nearly 30 years after the rest of his tribe was killed in attacks by ranchers and other tribes during the 1980s and ’90s.

The last member of an Indigenous tribe in Brazil has died, apparently of natural causes. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This story takes us to the western Amazon, to one of the most remote parts of Brazil.