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Brazil has 1.7 million Indigenous people, near double the count from prior census, government says
1 year, 4 months ago

Brazil has 1.7 million Indigenous people, near double the count from prior census, government says

Associated Press  

BELEM, Brazil — The diminutive woman with a white feather headdress stood on the stage of the majestic colonial theater in Brazil’s Amazon on Monday and addressed the crowd. Sonia Guajajara, Minister of Indigenous Peoples, center, dances with Tembe Indigenous women during the Amazon Dialogue meeting at the Hangar convention center in Belem, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. “There are …

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Brazil’s first ever minister of indigenous peoples tackles crises on multiple fronts
1 year, 10 months ago

Brazil’s first ever minister of indigenous peoples tackles crises on multiple fronts

The Independent  

She was a month into her new job, and Sonia Guajajara’s plate was already full. More than 15,000 illegal miners who panned for gold in the Yanomami indigenous reserve are now fleeing camps set up in the middle of the jungle to avoid falling into the hands of Brazilian authorities The more than 896,000 Indigenous Brazilians have never had their …

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Brazil’s new president works to reverse Amazon deforestation
1 year, 11 months ago

Brazil’s new president works to reverse Amazon deforestation

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Shaking a traditional rattle, Brazil’s incoming head of Indigenous affairs recently walked through every corner of the agency’s headquarters — even its coffee room — as she invoked help from ancestors during a ritual cleansing. Environmentalists, Indigenous people and voters sympathetic to their causes were important to Luiz Inácio da Silva’s election to a third term …

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Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief for key post
1 year, 11 months ago

Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief for key post

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Sônia Guajajara will head up a new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, with a mandate to oversee policies ranging from land demarcation to health care. She is widely known as the leader of the main umbrella group for Brazil’s many Indigenous tribes and is a member of …

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Minority women reaching for office in Brazil’s elections
2 years, 2 months ago

Minority women reaching for office in Brazil’s elections

Associated Press  

SAO PAULO — Women make up more than half of Brazil’s electorate, but one wouldn’t know it from the nation’s halls of power. Here are three minority women trying to rise above the challenges and reach elected office: SÔNIA GUAJAJARA - CANDIDATE FOR FEDERAL LAWMAKER, SAO PAULO Barefoot while chanting and singing traditional songs, dozens of Indigenous people marched Sept. …

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Indigenous ‘forest guardians’ reported slain in Brazil
2 years, 3 months ago

Indigenous ‘forest guardians’ reported slain in Brazil

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Two members of the Brazilian Indigenous group known for its forest guardians who combat illegal deforestation have been killed according to the Indigenist Missionary Council, a nonprofit that monitors violence against native peoples. Forest guard Janildo Oliveira Guajajara was killed with multiple gunshots from behind, while another Guajajara man who was shot in the Saturday morning …

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