Indigenous Peoples Are Occupying Ranches and Farms In Brazil As A Challenge To The Government

Over 60 farms and ranches across Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul have been occupied by Indigenous protesters. In some casses the protestors are working the farms and harvesting food.

“Our reservations are too small,” complained one chief.  “If we don’t get more land, my people will go hungry.”

In the last ten years more than 500 of Brazil's indigenous have been murdered in the course of their struggle for rights.

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