Their film centers on the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people, who face constant assault as they try to protect their territory within Brazil’s Amazon rainforest from invasion by outsiders.
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Lily Gladstone is the Golden Globes’ first Indigenous best actress winner
When Lily Gladstone took the stage Sunday night to accept her first Golden Globe, she spoke to the live TV audience in the Blackfeet language.
End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil’s Guajajara
Indigenous forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara was killed in November 2019 in an alleged ambush by illegal loggers in the Arariboia Indigenous Territory in Brazil’s Maranhão state.
Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are the World’s Secret Weapon in Curbing Climate Change
The world’s Indigenous Peoples and communities are more important players in the battle against climate change than anyone ever knew.
Brazil: “A momentous, historic victory” for Indigenous people as Supreme Court rejects Time Limit Trick
Opponents of Indigenous rights in Brazil have suffered a major setback after the Supreme Court rejected a proposal that threatened hundreds of Indigenous territories.
Ecuador: Victory for uncontacted tribes as oil drilling blocked in historic referendum
In a historic referendum, people in Ecuador have voted to block oil drilling on uncontacted tribes’ land in the Yasuní National Park.
Brazil’s government launches major operation to evict miners from Yanomami territory
Authorities in Brazil have launched a major operation to remove thousands of illegal goldminers from the Yanomami territory in the north of the country.
Amazon forest guardians fulfil Bruno Pereira’s mission of Indigenous exchange
Pereira, who was murdered alongside British journalist Dom Phillips, planned to lead an Indigenous delegation 2,500km across Brazil to learn from veteran fellow defenders
Museum urged to return totem pole stolen from First Nation village
First Nation leaders are set to meet with bosses from Scotland’s largest museum for talks on the repatriation of a historic totem pole stolen from modern-day British Columbia almost a century ago.
Meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops
In north-western New Mexico, traditional Indigenous farming methods are being passed down to protect against the effects of climate crisis
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