QUITO, Ecuador – QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — An Indian community that sentenced a young man to death by hanging for the murder of another man softened his punishment Sunday, ordering him to do five years of ...

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 ...

In a steamy forest of winding laurel trees and sprawling palms, a battle is raging between Ecuadorean Indians trying to protect land rights and oil companies who want to drill in the Amazon. In the ...

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 ...

Indigenous peoples and state formation in modern Ecuador / A. Kim Clark and Marc Becker -- Indígena o ciudadano? : republican laws and highland Indian communities in Ecuador, 1820-1857 / Aleezé Sattar ...

Ecuador says it will consider changes to draft mining and water laws that provoked a clash with Indians last week that claimed a protester's life. Vice President Lenin Moreno says an accord signed ...

QUITO, Ecuador — Officials from Ecuador’s main Amazon Indian movement said Monday that the group would take over environmentally fragile jungle terrain to prevent the spread of mining and oil ...

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, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Ecuador's attorney general on Saturday urged the government to negotiate with oil firms to stop drilling for crude in a protected area deep in the Amazon jungle where Indian ...