Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul
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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.
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