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Brazil’s Indigenous Games
Hundreds of Indigenous athletes take part in the Indigenous Games, Brazil's version of the Olympics, in the Tapirema community of Peruibe, Brazil on Saturday, April 22, 2023. People compete for ...
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Indigenous Games celebrate culture in Brazil
We are not the Olympic Games, but we are a success, too,” he said. Organizers say at least 500 people showed up for the event. Dozens chose to camp around the village from Friday to Sunday and live ...
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Brazil's Indigenous people protest as lawmakers vote to limit their land rights
Among its provisions, it will limit the creation of new Indigenous reserves to lands that were only occupied by native people in 1988. That's the promulgation date of Brazil's latest constitution.
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Brazil’s Indigenous communities confront challenges to their land and way of life
Above all, these youth games are an effort to keep ... The economy in Brazil is broke because of international support indigenous people. And Bolsonaro appeals to that to, let's say, middle ...
Brazil's Lula signs law to expand affirmative action, boosting quotas for Blacks in government jobs
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law to expand the country's affirmative action policies.
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Brazil’s first minister of Indigenous peoples starts job amid crises
Brazil’s first minister of Indigenous peoples was in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, responding to a crisis she had called a “genocide.” She had visited a hospital where scores of ...
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Brazil’s Indigenous women march again for the rights of their people and lives
and Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB). To the sound of traditional musical instruments, songs and prayers, around 8,000 Indigenous women from the six Brazilian biomes took part ...
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Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief at Ministry of Indigenous Peoples
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 ...
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Brazil’s top court rules in favour of Indigenous rights in land claim case
the human rights group Survival International wrote on the platform X. “The Indigenous peoples of Brazil and their allies around the world are celebrating a historic victory: the genocidal and ...
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Brazil elects record-high number of Indigenous mayors, vice mayors & councilors
On Oct. 6, 256 Indigenous people were elected mayors, vice mayors and city councilors in all Brazilian regions, an 8% increase compared with 236 elected in the 2020 ballot. In total, 2,506 ...
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The plight of Brazil’s indigenous groups worsens
Today wildcat miners, ranchers and loggers are the threat to the indigenous peoples of Brazil. A new report by ... allowing them to escape. As game fled and fish filled with mercury ...