Indigenous Reserves

A 1904 Massacre Could Help Save the Future of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil

By Mario Osava
Children were thrown into the air and stabbed and cut with knives and machetes. The attackers first opened fire on the victims of the massacre before finishing them off with knives so that none of the 244 indigenous people of the village would survive. The 1904 massacre permanently marked the Xokleng people and may play a decisive role in the future of the native peoples of Brazil.

Resurgence of Indigenous Identity in the Crossfire in Brazil

By Mario Osava
The powerful tractors and other farm machinery that landowners recently used to block roads at a dozen points from north to south in Brazil illustrated the economic clout of big agriculture, which rose up against the demarcation of indigenous reserves.