The Echuya Batwa—often known as “keepers of the forest”—are an endangered tribe of forest-dwelling hunter-gatherer people. They lived peacefully off their land without any outside influence until 1991 ...

Livia Simoka travels to the remote jungles of the Republic of the Congo to spend five months living with the isolated pygmy tribe the Mbendjele.

SPOKANE — Just two weeks ago, a 15-year-old girl from the Colville Reservation went missing. Maleigha Yallup’s disappearance adds to a growing crisis. She is now among the 56 missing Indigenous women ...

Describes the culture and history of the Efe, a pygmy tribe living in the rain forests of equatorial Africa, and explains how their environment and way of life are threatened by the encroachment of ...