In a 280,000-hectare triangle of preserved Amazon rainforest, Indigenous communities hope for 'total eviction' of non-Indigenous settlers.
abc.net.au/news/amazon-rainforest-indigenous-traditions/102489044The Indigenous adolescents danced in a circle under the thatched-roof hut from nearly dawn to dusk while parents looked on from the perimeter.
Girls taking part in the coming-of-age ritual had already had their first period. The boys' voices had begun to slip into lower registers. The Alto Rio Guama territory is a 280,000-hectare triangle of preserved forest surrounded by severely logged landscape in the north-eastern Amazon, home to 2,500 people of the Tembé, Timbira and Kaapor ethnicities.But it has also been occupied by some 1,600 non-Indigenous settlers. Some of those invaders have been there for decades. Many log the territory's trees or grow marijuana, according to public prosecutors in Para state.
As of Monday local time, 90 per cent of settlers had voluntarily departed, with rain-ravaged roads impeding the rest, according to a statement from the general secretariat of Brazil's presidency.
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