'Nobody is going to tamper with Indigenous land without your agreement,' vows LulaOficial. 'Everything this government has decreed against Indigenous peoples must be repealed immediately.'
Aruã Pataxó, president of the Indigenous Federation of Pataxó and Tupinambá Nations and a Communist Party of Brazil pre-candidate for state deputy in Bahia, told the outlet that"only we, as Indigenous people, can defend our rights."that"we want to participate in the construction of the project for a new Brazil."
The most repeated demand by Indigenous activists to da Silva is the resumption of land demarcations. Representatives of Da Silva replied by condemning violations of native rights by Bolsonaro, who in 2018 vowed that"not a centimeter will be demarcated either as an Indigenous reserve or as a quilombola," a reference to territories for descendants of self-emancipated African slave communities.
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