Illegal gold miners take over FUNAI base and airstrip near isolated Yanomami settlement in Brazil The Hutukara Yanomami Association denounced the takeover by illegal gold miners of an abandoned FUNAI base and airstrip in the vicinity of an isolated Yanomami village along the upper Catrimani River...
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A imagem que nenhuma televisão mostrou na abertura da copa: o indígena Guarani pedindo demarcação das terras "Indígena Guarani pedindo demarcação das terras" (Translation of the beginning of article in Protuguese): A white child, a black child, and an Indian child with a headdress entered together in...
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Kayapó leaders in London Kayapó leaders Raoni and Megaron visit London on 10 June 2014: An event hosting these two important leaders will take place at the Lecture Theatre of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, on 10 June 2014, 18:30. Further particulars can be...
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Agressões em Belo Monte Indígenas Denunciam Agressões em Belo Monte. Protestos de índios no local de construção da hidrelétrica já dura cinco dias. Índios Xikrin denunciaram ao Ministério Público Federal (MPF) que foram recebidos com bombas e balas de borracha ao tentarem entrar no canteiro de...
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Demarcation of Tupinambá Territory Dear Colleagues, I send below an English translation of the Avaaz petition created by anthropologists and other acadmics who have worked with the Tupinambá in Brazil recently. The petition asking for state action to complete demarcation of the Tupinambá territory so as...
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SALSA Statements on the Belo Monte Dam Project The membership of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA), a professional association of scholars specializing in Lowland South America, wishes to express its concern regarding the proposed Belo Monte hydroelectric project in the Amazonian...
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