Tag: indians

Brazil’s Tapeba Indians Want Their Land Back

For many years, the Brazilian State claimed that there were no indigenous people in ...

Brazil’s Program to Improve Indians’ Diet

The National Health Foundation (Funasa) will spend money in 2005 on projects by the ...

80,000 Homes Not Built in Brazil Due to Red Tape

With its biggest budget in 15 years, Brazil’s Housing secretariat at the Ministry of ...

20 Indian Tribes Get an Audience in Brazil’s Capital

About 60 indigenous people attended an audience with representatives of Funai, Incra, Funasa, Ibama, ...

Everyone But Indians Invited to Brazil’s Indian Committee

Brazil’s Interministerial Working Group for the Indigenous Policy (GTI) was officially set up on November ...

Brazilian Indians Unite and Get Organized

Brazil’s Indigenous leaders in the states of Pará and Amapá evaluated the indigenous movement ...

Brazilian Indians Win This Round. They Can Stay.

The chief justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court, Carlos Ayres Britto, suspended three repossession ...

Brazilian Indians in the War of Eucalyptus

At the time when Brazil was a Portuguese colony, monoculture for export was one ...

Brazilian Indians Have no Voice on Matters Concerning Themselves

Fourteen indigenous lands in Brazil had their bounds officially confirmed on October 27, totaling ...

Anti-Indian Feeling in Brazil Worries Bishop

“I returned from this  visit feeling very worried.” “I am very sad with what ...