Indigenous writer and environmental activist Ailton Krenak stands at the Brazilian Academy of Letters during his admission ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, April 5, 2024.

Over 600,000 indigenous Brazilians live in reserves, which cover 13% of the country (see map). For some years violence against them did fall.

This piece was written by Elaíze Farias and originally published at Amazônia Real's website, on April 19, 2023. It is republished here, with edits, under a partnership agreement with Global Voices.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Monitoring the threats that uncontacted traditional peoples face in the Brazilian Amazon is set to become easier for Indigenous rights activists and agencies, thanks to a new ...

As a result of these compounding factors, the United Nations declared 2022-2032 the “ Decade of Indigenous Languages ” to draw attention to the issue and urge countries to revive local dialects.

I said I would take more than 200 native languages of Brazil with me and that Portuguese is not a Brazilian language, it is a European language. I've started by giving this signal that I'm not going ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It was a historic week for Brazil’s Krenak people, getting both literary esteem and an apology for dictatorship-era crimes — both firsts for the Indigenous people of ...