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Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira killed: ‘They thought they could get away with it’
July 15, 2022The widow of Indigenist Bruno Pereira asks for reinforcement in the protection of the Indigenous peoples of Amazonia.
Read more‘Open Your Window,’ from the newly published Brazilian novel ‘Never-Ending Youth’
July 12, 2022People’s World readers are invited to enjoy a chapter from the recently published novel "Never-Ending Youth," about the young generation's resistance against the Brazilian military régime in the early 1970s.
Read morePeoples of the Xingu join forces to confront the worst destruction ever registered
July 11, 2022Indigenous people and riverbank dwellers discuss strategies to protect territories during the Xingu+ Network in the village of Khikatxi, Xingu Indigenous Territory (XIT).
Read moreDanger escalates for Indigenous aid workers in Amazonia
June 30, 2022Messages like the one transcribed in the title above are routine for FUNAI employees in the area where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed.
Read morePeter Lownds explains how and why he translated a recent Brazilian novel
June 27, 2022International Publishers has just released Never-Ending Youth, a recent novel by Northeast Brazilian writer Urariano Mota, in Peter Lownds’s translation.
Read moreChamber of disinformation? Brazilian deforestation according to Bolsonaro
June 16, 2022The rate of deforestation was already growing under the governance of Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer, but under Bolsonaro it attained a level not seen since 2006.
Read moreICYMI: May 5 was the World Day of the Portuguese Language and Marx
May 18, 2022May 5 was the World Day of the Portuguese Language and the anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth. So I am left with this difficult impasse: between the two fundamentals, what to do?
Read more‘The entire village had Covid’: Testimony of a Xingu woman
March 23, 2022The women’s leader of the Xingu Indigenous Territory, the eldest daughter of one important tribal chief and the niece of another, Watatakalu Yawalapiti watched her family be devastated by Covid.
Read moreA young pre-med student leaves her São Paulo State Indigenous village
October 04, 2021Nauany, whose name in the Tupi language means “flower of the dawn,” took the national qualifying examinations in July and came in first among almost 300 Indigenous competitors. This was surprising, because of all the difficulties she had to face just to be able to study.
Read moreFate of the Piripkura tribe in hands of agency controlled by Bolsonaro
September 24, 2021“White men” had arrived in their remote forest in the northwest of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, ready to plunder Indigenous land.
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