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Mar 1, 2022 · In Brazil, evicted Indigenous residents fight to reclaim their community. by Ana Ionova on 1 March 2022. Some 2,260 families, many of them Indigenous, were displaced in March 2020 when authorities ...
<p>A supporter of the Brazilian native Indians rests inside the former Indian Museum, as police officers stand guard outside the building preparing to evict them, in Rio de Janeiro, January 12, 2013.
Jun 9, 2023 · Indigenous groups turn to Brazil’s highest court to stop police violence. by Aimee Gabay on 9 June 2023. Brazil’s largest coalition of Indigenous groups has filed a motion with the country’s ...
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The Indigenous ethnic diversity in Rio de Janeiro is very rich. The 2010 census lists 127 Indigenous ethnic groups in Rio who speak 26 languages. The Guarani people top the list with 261 of the total, followed by the Tupiniquim (171), Guarani Kaiowá (144) and Tupinambá (136) ethnic groups (see infographic below). The presence of Indigenous people f...
It’s naturally more challenging to establish an Indigenous community in the big city than it is in a village, but Indigenous people always seek to be grouped together as “a protection mechanism for those who arrive first and bring their relatives behind,” says José Carlos Matos Pereira, a researcher at the Social Movements Memory Program and sociol...
Rio de Janeiro has always occupied a special place in Brazilian history. It was the capital during different periods: of the Portuguese colony of the State of Brazil (1763-1815), then of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves (1815-1822), of the Empire of Brazil (1822-1889), and of the Republic of the United States of Brazil (1889-1968...
Rio de Janeiro, a metropolis blessed with beaches, waterfalls, forests and mountains, among other natural resources, and gilded by a legendary party life, attracts people from other parts of Brazil and abroad, including Indigenous people. Among them is Tereza Correa da Silva Arapium, 56, who was born in the village of Andirá, in the Lower Tapajós R...
Mar 22, 2013 · A Brazilian native Indian boy balances on a swing at the Indian Museum in Rio de Janeiro January 28, 2013. An Indian community of 30 that claim to have lived in the abandoned Indian Museum since 20
Apr 10, 2013 · A native man gestures as he protests against eviction from the former Indigenous Museum -- aka Aldea Maracana -- next to the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 22, 2013.
Sep 25, 2023 · Yoko Kopacã, one of the leading figures in the struggle of the Xokleng people to reclaim their land. Until the court’s decision, by nine justices out of 11, Indigenous people had to prove they ...
