They hunt with their hands, kill violently with arrows, and have never encountered the modern world. Deep within the Amazonian rainforest, the indigenous Mashco-Piro tribe lives among the forest floor ...
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 ...
Babawru, a woman in her 40s, along with her mother and sister, believed they would be the last surviving members of the Akuntsu people Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her ...
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 ...
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 ...