Indians invade press office at World Social Forum
Indians from the Javari Valley, one of the largest Indigenous territories in Brazil, invaded the press office at the World Social Forum held in Brazil at the end of January.
Indians from the Javari Valley, one of the largest Indigenous territories in Brazil, invaded the press office at the World Social Forum held in Brazil at the end of January.
A delegation of one hundred Indigenous leaders and representatives of Indigenous organizations is travelling by ship down the Amazon to the World Social Forum.
In the month the world saw the inauguration of the first African-American as president of the United States, two Indigenous leaders were inaugurated as mayor and vice-mayor of a town in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
The Latin America Water Tribunal has ruled that the Brazilian government should halt plans to dam one of the main tributaries of the Amazon, because of the effects the dams would have on Indigenous people.
Several Tupinambá Indians in the Brazilian state of Bahia have been shot with rubber bullets, as large numbers of heavily armed federal police entered their community without warning in a conflict over land rights.
Members of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been spotted and photographed from the air near the Brazil-Peru border.
Brazilian Indians holding a mass rally this week in the Amazon town of Altamira say they have not been consulted about a series of huge dams that the Brazilian government wants to build on the Xingu River.
The largest Indigenous gathering in the Brazilian Amazon in nearly twenty years will take place from May 19 to 23 in the town of Altamira, Pará, to protest against a series of huge hydroelectric dams.