Brazil’s Indigenous March in Brasilia for Rights and Land

This article Goes over the different indigenous groups in Brazil are going to march to the capital and hold protests and camp out in the Brasilia. They are camping out in Brasilia to try to push the government to uphold the constitutional and protect the land of the indigenous people of Brazil. The indigenous people have said this is a huge topic because the land they posse is what helps them leave their legacy for their children. The indigenous people started their protest on Monday of this week and there will be meeting between the government and the native people to decide if the decision by Michel Temer’s government and their policy over indigenous people and their lands will be upheld. FUNAI or the National Indigenous Foundation as it is also is known as, the organization put in place by the government to help regulate and over see that business’s and the government it self does not go into the native peoples land and take it from them. The FUNAI also makes sure that the rights are also recognized and withheld within Brazil. With President Temer cutting the funding of FUNAI he has cut off a major asset to the native people in making sure that there land with remain theirs. As of right now the government and private organizations have gone in and started to claim lands from the indigenous people of Brazil.

Brazil’s Indigenous March in Brasilia for Rights and Land


http://amazonwatch.org/news/2018/0403-institution-protecting-indigenous-rights-in-brazil-under-attack