Indigenous Protestors File Suit in Brazil After Violent Eviction in Rio

Rick Kearns
April 03, 2013
More than a week after the Brazilian Police’s Shock Battalion evicted indigenous and allied protestors using tear gas, pepper spray and batons from a contested site in Rio de Janei...

Guarani Filmmaker Sharing More Than Just Films

Dominique Godrèche
September 09, 2012
“We, Guaranis, consider ourselves a nation without frontiers; my work is to show through movies, what territory means to us,” explains filmmaker Ariel Ortega, whose name in Guarani...

Art of World’s Indigenous on Display in Paris

Dominique Godrèche
September 08, 2012
The work is often referred to as naïve, primitive or self-taught and often left out of exhibitions around the world, but for one exhibit some 50 artists from around the world inclu...

In Bolivia, Many Indigenous Communities Turn to Vigilantism to Fight Crime

Emily Alpert
February 08, 2012
If a man kills another man in the harsh high plains of Jesús de Machaca or the lush lowlands of Beni, the people who catch him might not call the police...

Brazil: Guarani Leader Slain by Masked Gunmen

Bill Weinberg
November 21, 2011
A hit squad of some 40 masked gunmen on November 18 executed a cacique or traditional leader of Brazil’s Kaiowa-Guarani people...
Jerry Reynolds

Exposing 'a Model of Social Humiliation'

The Itika Guasu Investment Fund may have broken new ground in Bolivia and Latin America, and internationally. But the negotiation process exposed "a model of social humiliation" that still threatens impoverished Indigenous people wherever they press a valid claim to valuable property....

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August 03, 2011

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