Tamandua Piripkura has lived his life on the run. Not from authorities or enemies although plenty of people would like to see him dead but from modernity. Tamandua is one of the last three known survivors of the Piripkura people.
A Brazilian company stands poised to start mining inside an Indigenous territory in the Amazon as soon as October, highlighting the precarious nature of the protections afforded to Indigenous lands under the current administration. Oxycer Mining has filed five applications with the national mining regulator to prospect for gold in the Piripkura Indigenous Territory in […]
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