Documents reveal Belo Monte’s indifference to 300 families in Terra do Meio
For eight years, Norte Energia, the hydroelectric plant's concessionaire, has refused to make good for damages and disruption to residents' way of life in the Rio Iriri, Riozinho do Anfrísio, and Rio Xingu Extractive Reserves
‘Placing the Legislative and Judicial branches in opposition until one of the two capitulates kills democracy’
Deborah Duprat, one of Brazil's top legal experts, who defended the Indigenous people against the historic cut-off point thesis, believes that this debate will return to the Supreme Court and that Congress is deciding on matters outside of its authority
The shadows cast by the Supreme Court’s historic cut-off point ruling
Xokleng elders and youth, the 'people of the sun,' are celebrating the outcome of the ruling against the legal thesis. SUMAÚMA was there to see reaction from older members, who remembered past struggles, while also explaining how the high court's decision on land indemnifications could impact the future
Historic cut-off ruling stirs Indigenous peoples to lobby inside Brasília’s palaces
Accompanied by lawyers and armed with technical arguments, the movement's leaders have begun making regular visits to Supreme Court justices to influence public debate and the outcome of the trial affecting the future of the original peoples.
Bridges destroyed, acts of arson, death threats: Ibama’s battle to enforce the law in the Amazon
SUMAÚMA spent three days following the biggest operation ever carried out by Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama to remove cattle from the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Territory, home to isolated forest peoples
Raoni: ‘After I’m gone, the next generation will need to be united’
The strongest root in Brazil's Indigenous movement, the elder put out a new call to relatives: he is preparing his succession, but he is still in the fight. And he promises to ‘give Lula an earful’
Lula slammed for failing to reciprocate Raoni’s support
Some 54 Indigenous peoples from all Brazilian biomes heeded the call of the country’s most eminent Indigenous leader, who made a visible show of support for the president at his inauguration last January. Now they want responses from the three branches of government—and on a tight deadline
Lula administration seeks ‘conciliatory solution’ for Waimiri Atroari genocide during military dictatorship
A report exclusively shown to SUMAÚMA shows chemical weapons were used in the massacre of eight villages in 1970 during the construction of highway BR-174. A retired colonel and Bolsonaro appointee has been appointed to a legal case against the federal government
Demarcation legal battle: ‘middle way’ creates more problems than it solves
Attorneys for Indigenous peoples warn the supposed compromise opinion put forward by Brazilian Federal Supreme Court minister Alexandre de Moraes will open the door to new conflicts and forced evictions
The Senate could make the Apocalypse Bill law
The historical cut-off point rushed through the Chamber of Deputies is just one of the bill's atrocities. If a majority in the Senate votes for passage, it will produce large-scale destruction, redraw the map of Brazil, and compromise, perhaps irreversibly, the fight against global warming
