There is hardly any photographic evidence of Ecuador’s isolated tribes, which belong to the Waorani indigenous group. Image by Valeria Sorgato. Nearly three months later, ...

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An indigenous tribe from one of the most remote parts of the Amazon rainforest is taking over a unique eco-tourism project as a way to protect their ancestral lands from oil extraction. Angel Etsaa ...

He fears that with Ecuador's oil sector has been gridlocked by the Texaco trial and the Indian opposition. "The oil sector is paralysed because the government has been unable to put together a bidding ...

2004-09-03 04:00:00 PDT Tiguino, Ecuador-- Penti Baihua, a community leader of the Huaorani Indians, knew there was more to the massacre of 26 members of a rival Amazon tribe than mere revenge. In ...

2004-09-03 04:00:00 PDT Tiguino, Ecuador-- In the years since development began in Ecuador's Amazon region, the Huaorani and Tagaeri Indians have taken very different paths. In the first recorded ...

Ecuador's umbrella organization representing the country's Tribal Nations, CONAIE, has declared a National Mobilization to oppose a wave of oil and mining projects that threaten tribal territories ...

The Cofan Indians of Ecuador manage six times the land they controlled in the early 1990s, and much of the credit goes to an American they call the Gringo Chief.

Indigenous tribe representatives from the Amazon in Ecuador joined an anti-austerity demonstration in Quito on Friday, as hopes for talks between protest leaders and the government dimmed ...

Police used gas and batons to keep protesters away from the building on Thursday. One tribe member was hurt in the protests, the local Red Cross said. A vote on the bill is expected in Congress ...

YAWEPARE, Ecuador – An oil pipeline runs through this village to a Chinese rig at the end of the road. At night, when the rig is pumping, the pipeline is too hot to touch, but villagers say t… ...