Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul slide image

Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul

+ INDIGENIST MISSIONARY COUNCIL - CIMI tame farmers, squatters and all sorts of adventurers financed by the government in order to occupy the Brazilian territory, especially the frontiers with the other Latin American neighbors, and to integrate the traditional peoples and communities into society and to exploit the natural resources of the brush country. After the end of military rule in 1985, the attacks on the people did not cease even with the victory of the indigenous movement regarding article 231 of the Federal Constitution, the fruit of intense struggle among the constituent members. Still following the Decree, with the country already in full democracy: "there would be no Indians in the 21 century. The idea of freezing the man in the primary state of his development is, in fact, cruel and hypocritical, "said Helio Jaguaribe, former Minister of science and technology of Government Fernando Collor de Melo, in August 30, 1994 during a workshop for military at army headquarters in Brasilia. Indigenous peoples are resisting: "the fire of death passed through the body of Earth, drying its. The ardume of the fire roasting its skin. The jungle cries, then dies. The garbage suffocates. The stomp of the ox hurts the soil. The tractor overturns the Earth. Away from our lands, we heard its cries and its death without being able to succor its Life" says an excerpt of letter from leaders and teachers Guarani Kaiowá published in March 17, 2007. In the 2010 Census, the last realized by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the brasilian indigenous population grew to 817 thousand individuals, of which 315 thousand are living in cities and 502,000 in communities in rural areas. According to the census there are 305 peoples fluent em 274 distinct languages-still far from the five million people organized in almost 2000 people at the start of the European invasion in 1500. C1 =
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