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Article: RIGHTS-BRAZIL: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DEMAND, 'GIVE US OUR LAND'
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- February 6, 2006
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Mario Osava
Inter Press Service English News Wire
02-06-2006
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 3, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Land conflicts
involving indigenous people have multiplied in Brazil over the last
few months, generating greater tension and showing once again that
the country's roughly 400,000 indigenous people still have a long
way to go to win their rights.
Hundreds of Tupinamb and Patax Indians occupied eight plots
of land last week in Itaj de Colonia, in the southern part of the
northeastern Brazilian state of Baha, in an attempt to recover
property that they claim as their own, but which was rewarded to
landowners in court decisions.
The indigenous people, who complained that they had been
attacked, ...