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• Indigenous People (Brazil)

  Brazil: Sônia Guajajara, indigenous women leading in the fight for justice

  18 June 2020, by Brasil de Fato, GUAJAJARA Sônia

  As of June 16, Brazil is reporting 888,271 confirmed coronavirus infections and 43,959 Covid-19 deaths, second only to the United States and assumed to significantly undercount the real totals. Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has stoked the pandemic by ridiculing social distancing, insisting (...)

• Indigenous People (Brazil)

  An Indigenous Reconstruction in Brazil – A woman running for Brazil’s presidency

  3 May 2018, by FERNANDES Sabrina, GUAJAJARA Sônia

  An interview with Sônia Guajajara, an indigenous woman running for Brazil’s presidency.
  518 years ago, the territory now known as Brazil was invaded by a Portuguese fleet and colonized. Many of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the land died from diseases, were killed, or enslaved. The (...)