Filmmakers Monti Aguirre and
Glenn Switkes have returned from a
six-month research and filming trip in
Brazil. Their film, Amazonia will
analyze the occupation of the Amazon
Basin, including the fight by Indian
people to protect their lands.
Grassroots Rainforest Conference held near Sausalito, California, was an educational and brainstorming session put together by the Rainforest Action Network of San Francisco in order to forge an international coalition of organizations to mount a…
Radio program. "There has been hope in Indian
communities that administrators sympathetic to Indian concerns would be appointed to FUNAI, the government department for Indian affairs."
Ciseases and the demands of European-style economic enter- prises have reduced the indigenous population to a mere three or four per cent of its original total.
The Council of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of Brazil discuss how Decree 1775 is more than a setback; it 's a death sentence for many Indigenous groups.
Indigenous organizations confront the new challenges in contemporary Brazil the and a brief frame of the actual economic realities by which they are affected are discussed