'If Brazil starts with us, why did we arrive last?': Q&A with Indigenous lawmaker Célia Xakriabá

BRASÍLIA — Célia Xakriabá recalls how, during her campaign last year for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, Brazil’s lower house of Congress, she was always asked how non-Indigenous Brazilians could help Indigenous people. She would answer with a question of her own: “How many of you have voted for Indigenous candidacies?” They would […]

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