News from the Brazilian Indians

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  International tribunal tells Brazilian government to halt dam project 31 October 2008

  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.

   
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  Police shoot Tupinambá Indians 29 October 2008

  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.

   
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  Uncontacted tribe photographed near Brazil-Peru border 29 May 2008

  Members of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been spotted and photographed from the air near the Brazil-Peru border.

   
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  ‘Nobody has consulted us about dams’ say Indians 22 May 2008

  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.

   
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  Amazon Indians hold mass rally to oppose dams 13 May 2008

  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.

   
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  Tribunal upholds Indians’ land rights 16 January 2008

  A Brazilian federal tribunal has upheld the government’s recognition of the Apyterewa indigenous territory, home to the Parakaná Indians in the Amazonian state of Pará.

   
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  Javari Valley Indians dying due to lack of medical care 11 January 2008

  Eight Indians, including five children, died in the Javari Valley in the Brazilian state of Amazonas in December.

   
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  Indians tell President Lula ‘We will not accept mining on our land’ 19 November 2007

  Kayapó Indian leader Raoni has delivered a letter to Brazil’s President Lula, telling him, ‘We will not accept mining on indigenous land’.

   
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  Stars of BBC ‘Tribe’ series hit by disease epidemic 20 August 2007

  The Matis Indians of Brazil, stars of tomorrow's episode of 'Tribe' on BBC TV, are facing an epidemic which has already killed members of this tiny tribe.

   
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  Indians and NGOs unite to oppose to Xingu dams 5 June 2007

  Indigenous peoples and NGOs have met in the Amazon town of Altamira in Brazil to discuss their concerns about a series of hydroelectric dams planned for the Xingu river, one of the Amazon's main tributaries.

   
 
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