land rights
Another killing has spurred more protests by Chile’s indigenous Mapuche people in the country’s south. Camilo Catrillanca, grandson of the lonko (leader) of Temucuicui, an important Mapuche community and center for resistance activities, was gunned down by police during a confrontation with car thieves. His father Marcelo characterized him as a weichafe — a warrior […]
> Read MoreBrazil’s Pankararu finally win land rights, but fight isn’t over. The struggle over land rights in the backlands of Brazil’s dry northeastern state of Pernambuco pits impoverished indigenous people against impoverished non-indigenous settlers. For once, indigenous people have won, but the 302 soon-to-be-evicted settler families aren’t happy and have nowhere to go. And they may […]
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