Firing arrows, indigenous people in Brazil protest Bill curtailing land rights

Firing arrows, indigenous people in Brazil protest bill curtailing land rights

Hundreds of indigenous Brazilians protested in Brasilia on Wednesday against a bill that would limit recognition of reservation lands.

Firing arrows, indigenous people in Brazil protest bill curtailing land rights

Riot police fired pepper spray to contain the crowd, and some arrows were shot at the glass windows of the building.

Firing arrows, indigenous people in Brazil protest bill curtailing land rights

June 16, 2021BRASILIA (Reuters) – Several hundred indigenous Brazilians protested outside the Congress building in Brasilia on Wednesday against a bill backed by the country’s farm sector that would limit recognition of reservation lands.Protesters wearing feathered headdresses and body paint later tried to invade a downtown building to demand the ouster of the head of the government’s indigenous affairs agency Funai for not defending their…

Firing arrows, indigenous people in Brazil protest Bill curtailing land rights

Several hundred indigenous Brazilians protested outside the Congress building in Brasilia on Wednesday (Jun 16) against a Bill backed by the country's farm sector that would limit recognition of reservation lands.

Firing arrows, indigenous people in Brazil protest bill curtailing land rights

BRASILIA – Several hundred indigenous Brazilians

Firing arrows, indigenous people in Brazil protest bill curtailing land rights

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Several hundred indigenous Brazilians protested outside the Congress building in Brasilia on Wednesday against a bill backed by the country's farm sector that would limit recognition of reservation lands. Read full story