Pará: Kayapo Indians Protest Against Abandonment Of Villages

Pará: Kayapo Indians Protest Against Abandonment Of Villages Translated from Portuguese, Original Below Fifteen leaders of ethnic Kayapo Indians left the municipality of Novo Progresso, west of Pará, and went to the city of Itaituba to protest against the abandonment of villages by the Department of Health Care for Indigenous People (Sheshai) and by FUNAI (National Indian Foundation). For more than three days, the group was occupying the seat of Indigenous Sanitary District (DSEI) of...

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