Quito – Toucans and red howler monkeys are some of the rich wildlife that make up the land of Ecuador’s Shuar Indians in the Amazon. But it also has something else: rich deposits of copper and ...

MACAS, Ecuador — Several hundred Shuar Indians wearing black war paint and toting wooden spears on Thursday reinforced a highway blockade that police failed to break up earlier in a bloody melee that ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — More than 1,000 indigenous protesters reached Ecuador's capital Thursday after a two-week march from the Amazon to oppose plans for large-scale mining on their lands. The ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Ecuadorean authorities say members of an indigenous group clashed with police while trying to overrun a Chinese-owned mining camp in the country's south, leaving 14 officers ...

Wearing his traditional headdress made of toucan feathers, tribal leader Pablo Tsere asked Houston-based Burlington Resources to stay out of his back yard — the Amazon rain forest. Tsere is chief of ...

In Ecuador, the Shuar are blocking highways to defend their hunting grounds. In Chile, the Mapuche are occupying ranches to pressure for land, schools and clinics. In Bolivia, a new constitution gives ...

LIMA, PeruLIMA, Peru — Police clashed with Amazon Indians protesting proposed water, oil and mining laws Wednesday, leaving at least 29 police officers and nine Indians wounded, Ecuadorean officials ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- The lands of the Shuar Indians in the Amazon are rich in wildlife such as tapirs, toucans and red howler monkeys. They also hold treasures more coveted by outsiders: rich ...

The indigenous Shuar, native to Ecuador and Peru, have been portrayed as headhunting savages. This tribe no longer performs the ritual of shrinking heads, a practice largely misunderstood. Although ...