Long before the age of the Inca, the Chuquibamba culture called the mountains and valleys of southern Peru home. The Inca, ...

Mashco-Piro tribe live in Manú National Park in south-east Peru Clan is thought to number in the hundreds in area around Diamante Indians live by rigid social code, and regularly kidnap other ...

One of the most reclusive and isolated indigenous tribes has been located in the dense forest of the Amazon in Peru. Some members of the Mashco Piro tribe emerged from their hideouts in the dense ...

Home to numerous indigenous Indian tribes, the Peruvian rain forest's most recognized Indian inhabitants were the Incas whose capital was in the Andes but whose empire extended into the cloud forest.

“Mashco,” he says quietly, referring to the Mashco-Piro tribe. He holds up his bow as if shooting, then moves his hand to the scar, closes his eyes, and grimaces to mimic pain. Peru’s Alto ...

For them, as for those who saw them, it was a remarkable moment as the group live in total isolation in the dense Amazon rainforest along the Brazilian-Peruvian border. Lost tribe: Bow and arrow at ...

Eight native leaders representing 1,800 communities in the Peruvian Amazon signed the letter which was published by indigenous group AIDESEP on Thursday. Indigenous tribes in Peru's Amazon say the ...

Image courtesy of ORPIO. Peruvian law strictly forbids contacting these tribes; even researchers are not allowed to approach them. However, there have been unintended meetings with loggers ...

In the early 16th century, Bartholeme de Las Casas became the champion of the Native American Indians, devoting his lifetime to improving the conditions—in the West Indies, Peru and Guatemala.