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The Brazilian government has fallen short of its promise to include Indigenous peoples in the decision-making process at the ...
JOSE BOITEAUX, Brazil (Reuters) - Pushed into a degraded corner of their ancestral lands, the Xokleng people of southern Brazil anxiously await a Supreme ...
Brazil's indigenous tribes protest bill that would allow commercial mining on their land. By Marcia Reverdosa. Updated 9:33 PM ET, Mon April 19, 2021 .
The last remaining member of an uncontacted Brazilian indigenous tribe has died, Brazil’s indigenous protection agency, Funai, said Saturday. CNN values your feedback 1.
In the 1980's Brazil's first indigenous Congressman, Xavante chief Juruna, went around with a recorder to tape conversations with other politicians because he said the white man's word was not to ...
Lula promised to create the Indigenous cabinet department during his presidential campaign. On Jan. 1 he returns to power, having previously governed Brazil from 2003-10.. The appointment of ...
According to Indigenous rights organization Survival International, "The Man of the Hole" was one of the few survivors of a series of attacks against his tribe that started in the 1970s.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government on Wednesday tapped a former Christian missionary to oversee the protection of isolated Indigenous tribes in Brazil, prompting an outcry among ...
The "Man of the Hole" lived in isolation and resisted contact for decades after the rest of his tribe was massacred. His death precedes Brazil's elections, where Indigenous rights are on the ballot.
Half of Brazil’s 300 Indigenous tribes have confirmed infections. Members of the Kayapo tribe block the BR163 highway during a protest outside Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil on Aug. 17, 2020.