Saturday, 10 April 2021, 5:19 pm
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Vilhalva, one of the leaders of the Guyra Roka community. ©
Sarah Shenker/Survival
A small
community of Brazilian Indians has won a land rights case at
Brazil’s Supreme Court that could have major repercussions
for indigenous people across the country.
The Court
has ruled that a 2014 judicial decision canceling the return
of some of their ancestral territory to the Guarani
community of Guyra Roka must be revisited because the
Guarani themselves were not involved in the process. Now,
they must be given a fair hearing before the Court votes
again on the return of their territory.
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There s an opening overhead shot of the Brazilian rain forest, dense and limitless. As a tourist boat slides along a river, indigenous tribesmen materialize on the banks to regard it reproachfully. They hold bows and arrows and don t seem fond of these visitors. But hold on; one of the young men has a layered haircut with a blond top.
As recently as the 1970s, when Herzog filmed Aguirre, the Wrath of God in such a forest, these Indians would have been real. But the time is the present, and the forest a preserved facade shielding fields that have been stripped of trees and devoted to farming. If they want, the Indians can pile into a truck and hire out as day laborers. But all of their traditions center on the forest and its spirits, and this new life is alienating. Some simply commit suicide.