Four people shot in new attack on Indigenous land in Brazil

Four People Shot in New Attack to Indigenous Land in Brazil

SAO PAULO—Four Indigenous people, including a child, were shot during an attack in southern Brazil late on Friday, federal police and an Indigenous rights organization said on Saturday, as violence escalates in the region. Attackers opened fire against the Indigenous community near the city of Guaira, in the southern Parana state, injuring four people, later hospitalized, the police said. The attack was aimed at the Avá Guarani people, who have …

ThePatriotLight - Four People Shot in New Attack to Indigenous Land in Brazil

ThePatriotLight - SAO PAULO—Four Indigenous people, including a child, were shot during an attack in southern Brazil late on Friday, federal police and an Indigenous rights organization said on Saturday, as violence escalates in the region.Attackers opened fire against the Indigenous community near the city of Guaira, in the southern Parana state, injuring four people, later hospitalized, the police said.The attack was aimed at the Avá Guarani p…

Attack on Brazilian Ava Guaraní Indigenous Causes Four Injured - teleSUR English

Four indigenous people of the Avá Guarani ethnic group, including a four-year-old child, were injured in southern Brazil after an attack by armed men on Friday night, the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) denounced this Saturday. RELATED: Brazil: Mato Grosso Police Attack Indigenous People Protesting Lack of Drinking Water According to the organization linked to the Catholic Church, this was the fourth attack in the last seven days on this co…

Four people shot in new attack to Indigenous land in Brazil

SAO PAULO — Four Indigenous people, including a child, were shot during an attack in southern Brazil late on Friday, federal police and an Indigenous rights organization said on Saturday, as violence escalates in the region.  Attackers opened fire against the Indigenous community near the city of Guaira, in the southern Parana state, injuring four people, who were later hospitalized, the police said.  The attack was aimed at the Ava Guarani peop…

The Travails of Maria the Beauty: On the Plight of Indigenous Women in the Brazilian Amazon

If her official documents were at all accurate, Maria would have been fifteen when she arrived at the government’s camp on the Roosevelt, a distant tributary of the Amazon where her people had lived since time immemorial. Of course, her people had never known calendars, so her birthday was made up on the spot. As […]