Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, recently released unprecedented images of a group of nine men from an uncontacted tribe in the Massaco Indigenous Territory, in the Amazon region.

The community is called Massaco after the river that runs through their lands. However, it is not known exactly how they refer to themselves. According to a piece published by The Guardian on ...

The Massaco tribe consists of just over 200 people ... have confirmed the group tends to move, and that previous settlements over the last few decades have been abandoned. The latest images ...

The Massaco’s no-contact policy has preserved ... and their use of fire to prepare new settlement areas. “That’s why many Funai experts suspect they came from the other side of the Guaporé ...