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Almost 1,500 indigenous people from about 200 different tribes have been protesting in Brazil’s capital as part of a National Week of Indigenous Mobilization. These actions coincide with Brazil’s Day of the Indian on April 19.
The protests are aimed mostly at a new bill, known as PEC 215, that would amend the Constitution and give Brazil’s legislative body, the National Congress, the power to decide the borders of indigenous territories. Currently, the mapping out of indigenous territories is handled by the National Indian Foundation, or FUNAI, a government agency set up to protect indigenous interests.
“A hundred groups from across the country are here to express their dissatisfaction and denounce attacks against their rights, which are happening in Congress,” Cleber Buzzato, executive secretary of the Indigenous Missionary Council, told AFP.
The current Brazilian government has demarcated much less indigenous land than past governments, and since the Congress works much slower than FUNAI and is also more hostile to indigenous interests, the change threatens to make the indigenous fight to protect their land longer and more difficult.
“From the moment the legislative body decides on the demarcation of indigenous lands, we know there will be no more demarcations,” Lindomar Ferreira, a Terena Indian and coordinator of the Network of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, said in an online statement. “It’s the same as throwing petrol on the fire. The ranchers will get emboldened and we will defend our territory. There will be conflict, violence and death.”
Many in indigenous communities also feel that the Congress will be more willing to give indigenous land to big agribusinesses, a move currently backed by some legislators as well as the new minister of agriculture, Katia Abreu.
Since April 13, protesters have been camped outside the Congress. On April 15, accompanied by songs, dances and rituals, large groups of indigenous people protested on Brasilia’s main road, known as the Monumental Axis. They marched to the Supreme Court and held a vigil in protest of recent anti-indigenous decisions made by the judiciary body.
Tents and bathrooms were also set up outside the Congress as part of what the protesters are calling the Free Land camp. The indigenous protesters have promised to continue camping outside of government buildings until PEC 215 is scrapped.
“This is the most critical moment in our history, because the powers [executive, legislative and judicial branches of government] are working together. It’s a systematic attack against our rights,” Sônia Guajajara, coordinator of APIB, told the World Wildlife Fund in an interview. “We will continue with political mobilization, organization and resistance. That’s our way of assuring our rights.”
One size does not fit all: The “indigenous” issues are not identical in all nations. In the U.S. both the Native American nations (historical rolls, “blood quantum”) or “recognition” by the U.S. federal government. As you own photo shows – some of the “Indians” have what Brazilians call “cabelo crespo” (crinkled hair) or “latinos” call “cabello duro”. But in Brazil for the government the self-declaration is sufficient, and for being accepted into an ethnicity (tribe) the acceptance of the “lideranza” (leader$hip: just like the “leader$chip” in Native American Nations). The demarkation of reservations is prepared by the FUNAI which like the U.S. Native Service is a “political” entity. Then Brazilian law gives the right of “contest” by other Brazilians who may live on the land. Indian tribes have moved historically away and into many different areas. Up until now, the President could establish a reservation, but now congress wants to decide on demarcation of reservations: Because in the past, Presidents were pressured and probably “threatend” by the geopolitical agents of the USA and Britain that want to dimish the control of Brazil’s government and the control of all government in Latin America over their national territory. Thus, after the dictatorship 1985, German agents (who rouse no suspicion) were infiltrated into Brazil to destabilize the relationship between the federal government and indigenous groups. (The names of the agents are all known.) In the 1990’s the German GIZ – a private contractor of the German govenrment (60,000+ U.S. troops and thousands of U.S. agents occupy and control Germany !) pressured the government and FUNAI to demark reservation claimed by fraudulent elements and to obstacle the right of contest by affected Brazilians. Remember the case ONEIDA VS NEW YORK STATE is in U.S. Courts since over fourty years – and would result in a demarcation of New York…. In Texas the Lipan Apache are not “reconized” by the Federal Government, just like an estimated other 700+ Native American groups. Your “advisors” all are funded by the bid interests that fund universities as well as the geopolitics of U.S. Congress: The U.S. wants to expand NATO into the South Atlantic, South America, Atlantic Africa. (Plan “Break the Atlantic-divide”. A “Yanomami” nation carved out of Brazil and Venezuela , protected by the “international community” – is just one of the “special operations”. Now you can go back asleep!
Leave the indigenous people alone and let them have their land, if you keep tearing down the forest the whole world will suffer the loss! Save the world by leaving it alone!!