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 ...

QUITO, Ecuador — Hundreds of Indians blocked Ecuador’s Pan American highway in several provinces Monday with rocks, tree trunks and burning tires to protest new water, mining and oil laws. Their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...