Tag: indigenous people
Brazilian Indigenous Researcher Recovers Ancestral Knowledge, Finds Diabetes and Hypertension Treatment
The initial goal was to identify treatments for the three most common diseases among ...
The Role of the Paiter-Suruí Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon in the Preservation of Primates
The Paiter-Suruí people have a culture deeply rooted in their land: the Sete de ...
Indian Activism Only Helps Feed the Economic System that We Reject, Says Brazilian Indian Leader Munduruku
Daniel Munduruku is far from naive. Whether he is traveling the world to talk ...
The 50-year-old Heroic Fight of Brazil’s Kapinawá Indigenous People Against Land-grabbers
In the Brazilian backlands, the jurema is a most willful tree: When you think ...
Brazil’s Anti-green Ultra-conservative Legislature Is a Threat to the Amazon
Brazil’s stewardship of the world’s largest tropical forest has long ignited acrimony. If frontier ...
Attacked by Foes and Allies Lula’s Progressive Agenda Is Under Threat
The Brazilian Congress has dealt a hammer blow to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s ...
Lula’s Abraço Leaves Scholz Weaponless
A global-south year into the Ukraine Trap As an ethical point of fact, most ...
Lula Abandons Bolsonaro’s Colorblindness and Embraces Diversity and Multiculturalism
On 8 January, thousands of supporters of Brazil’s defeated former president, Jair Bolsonaro, stormed ...
The Musician: An Excerpt by a Celebrated Best-selling Brazilian Author
Dr. Heloisa Prieto is one of Brazil’s most celebrated children and YA authors. As ...
Through Green Land Grabbing, Farmers in the Amazon Steal from Indians and Trick the Law
As global demand for food commodities has swelled, so has the practice of “land ...
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