There are about 40 indigenous villages in the Kayapó – an area the size of England,' Tribesman Bep Torim tells Gibby Zobel Gazing down from the light aircraft as we fly into the Amazon we can just pick out an aldeia , or indigenous village, as a round dot in a vast expanse of unbroken rainforest. This is the land of the Kayapó , a warrior-like people, and there are 40 of these aldeias in a protected...
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The U.S. government will pay the Navajo Nation $554 million to settle long-standing claims that it mismanaged funds and natural resources on the tribe's reservation for years....
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The U.S. and Arab allies launched a second major wave of airstrikes in Syria targeting mobile oil refineries controlled by Islamic State, the Pentagon said....