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• Indigenous People (Brazil)

  Indigenous people - The disappearance of journalist Dom Phillips in Brazil should leave you incandescent with rage

  9 June 2022, by JORDAN Lucy

  Jair Bolsonaro’s dog-whistle politics is risking the lives of Indigenous people and the reporters who tell their stories
  It’s now more than four days since veteran Brazil correspondent Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira disappeared in the Javari Valley, a remote part of the (...)

• 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 (...)