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  • Under government pressure, Brazilian Congress passes weakened bill against Indian infanticide

    08/09/2011 11:12:02 AM PDT · by juliosevero · 1 replies
    Last Days Watchman ^ | Julio Severo
    Under government pressure, Brazilian Congress passes weakened bill against Indian infanticide Bill created to eliminate failure to report infanticide now shuts its eyes to it By Julio Severo Under pressure from the administration of President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff, the Brazilian House of Representatives has critically debilitated a bill establishing criminal accountability from health agents and agents of Funai (Brazilian acronym for National Indian Foundation, which supposedly should protect Indians) considered “neglectful” in cases of infanticide in tribes. The custom of burying children alive, or to abandon them to die in forests, persists until today in several Brazilian tribes. Babies...
  • Uncontacted" Amazon Tribe Actually Known for Decades

    06/21/2008 1:17:49 PM PDT · by blam · 43 replies · 428+ views
    National Geographic News ^ | 6-19-2008 | Kelly Hearn
    Uncontacted" Amazon Tribe Actually Known for DecadesKelly Hearn for National Geographic NewsJune 19, 2008 Recent photos of an uncontacted tribe firing arrows at a plane briefly made these Amazon Indians the world's least understood media darlings. Contrary to many news stories, the isolated group has actually been monitored from a distance for decades, past and current Brazilian government officials say. No one, however, is known to have had a face-to-face meeting with the nomadic tribe, which lives along the Peru-Brazil border. And no one knows how much, if anything, these rain forest people know about the outside world. The tribe—whose...