The “People of the Sun,” as the Xokleng Indigenous people of Brazil call themselves, are no strangers to conflict and violence. In the early 20th century, as the southern region of the country was colonized by newly arrived Germans and Italians, bugreiro militias hired by the imperial government decimated an estimated two-thirds of their population. […]
On 8 October two members of the Xokleng indigenous community were injured in a clash with the military police of Santa Catarina state, in the south of.