Tag: indians

Brazil: Once Expelled Goldminers Come Back to Yanomami Territory

Illegal goldminers have invaded the land of the Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazônia. ...

Brazil Amazon Indians Take on Soy Barons Blocking Dam Site

The remote Enawenê Nawê Indians have blockaded the construction site of a hydroelectric dam in ...

Catholic Church Accuses Brazilian Congress of Disrespecting Indian Rights

Ignoring a decision taken by the Brazilian National Commission for the Indigenous Policy (CNPI) ...

Despite Killings and Intimidation Brazilian Indians Get More Land

On October 31st, the reports of the technical group in charge of reviewing the ...

Young Indians Threaten to Demarcate Land If Brazil Doesn’t Do It

About 300 young people from the Tupinambá, Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe, Pataxó and Tuxá (state of ...

Brazil: Evicted from Land Trukí¡ Indians Take Over New Area

The Brazilian Truká Indians repossessed another area in the Cabrobó region of Pernambuco, in ...

Juruena river in the Amazon

Brazil Amazon Indians Seek International Help to Prevent Dam Building

As Brazil celebrates its national Day of the Indian on April 19, a new ...

Brazilian Indian family works on handicraft

Brazilian Urban Indians Are Surviving as Odd Jobbers and Maids

According to the census carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ...

Guarani Indians children from Brazil

Brazilian Indians Don’t Want Handouts But Their Land Back to Grow Food

The situation of extreme poverty and no land to live as faced by the Guarani-Kaiowá ...

A Brazilian Indian woman with her child

Brazilian Indians Reoccupy Area Invaded by Sugar Cane Farmers

Tired of waiting for the demarcation of their lands, the Potiguara Indians, in the ...