By Edson Krenak Naknanuk

Displacement and human rights violations have become a tool to punish the Quilombola Peoples’ identity and reinforce structural racism and impoverishment. This article denounces the Brazilian State’s violations against Quilombola Peoples, known in English as Maroon Peoples, which are part of a wider strategy for demographic reengineering on Indigenous and Quilombola lands for attaining political and economic interests. 

By Laura R. Graham, Edson Krenak, and Linda Rabben

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk

Ceará Association FEPOINCE - Tremembé and Suruí Peoples (Brazil)

Photo: Brazil's Supreme Court. by Ricardo on Flickr.
 

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk
 

By Indian Law Resource Center

[WASHINGTON, D.C., AUGUST 2020] -- Brazil has blocked an Indigenous woman from addressing the Organization of American States Permanent Council during the O.A.S. Inter-American Week for Indigenous Peoples (August 5-12, 2020). We condemn this deplorable, dangerous act.
 

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk

(Available in English here)

Sr Jair Bolsonaro
Presidente
Praça dos Três Poderes, Palácio do Planalto
Twitter: @jairbolsonaro

Caro Senhor Presidente e Senhores Ilustres,

Disponível em português aqui

June 10, 2020

Sr. Jair Bolsonaro

President 

Praça dos Três Poderes, Palácio do Planalto

Twitter: @jairbolsonaro

 

Dear Senhor Presidente and Distinguished Sirs,
 

 Photo by Daniel Santini.

By Laura R. Graham
 

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk
 

Many A'uwẽ-Xavante ceremonies – such as wate’a (above), part of the male initiation complex -- revolve around water and ritual activities in water.  Plans for three hydroelectric dams on tributaries to the Rio das Mortes threaten the river basin. Photo by Rosa Gauditano/Studio R.
 

By Laura R. Graham, with collaboration from Edson Krenak Naknanuk