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President Postures Under International Pressure: Bombing of Airstrips is Meaningless (Amazon)

Tags: bombings, Brazil, President Fernando Collor de Mello, Roraima, Yanomami, Yanomami David Kopenawa

A gold rush in the Roraima region of Brazil brought thousands of miners to the area. These miners brought many diseases with them that the Yanomami Tribe was not immune to, thus wiping out 15% of the tribe. The Brazilian Government ordered the…

"We Need to Survive!": A Message from Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

Tags: Brazil, Collor de Mello Fernando, FUNAI, Yanomami David Kopenawa

An excerpt from a speech given by David Kopenawa Yanomami.

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