Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul
are turned into obstacles to the desired model locally, regionally
and nationally.
The extermination continues through the confinement of
people and communities in insufficient land; the slowness of the
Government in conducting the procedures for demarcation of the
land of people living in temporary camps; in omissions in the areas
of health and education; the omission of public authorities given
the daily aggressions, the invasion of land by loggers, squatters,
farmers, drug traffickers; systematic violence practiced against
indigenous people in different regions and States of Brazil. The
threats against the lives of these people are not, therefore, any
lesse than at other times in our history. Some concrete examples
can be presented, as is the case with the Xavante people of
Marãiwatsédé, in the State of Mato Grosso, in their struggle for
extrusion of its territory invaded by farmers; the Guarani Kaiowá
and Terena of Mato Grosso do Sul expropriated of their land by
agribusiness, living in inhumane situations, many in camps along
the roads; of people Kadiwéu, also in Mato Grosso do Sul, who had
their land demarcated for over 100 years and risk being expelled
again, after they returned to their territories; the Awá-Guaja
(isolated and of recent contact) and other indigenous people of
Maranhão who suffer violence from loggers that devastate their
Woods and with their lands overrun; of peoples Tupinambá, Bahia,
Xakriabá, Minas Gerais, Krenyê, Maranhão, and numerous other
people who have been driven from their traditional lands. The
increasing criminalization of indigenous actions - particularly in
Bahia, Pernambuco, Maranhão and Mato Grosso do Sul-also makes
evident the extermination policy and denial of rights of expression,
manifestation, of citizenship and of defence of life.Our attention
is also called to the dozens of camps on the edge of highways,
scattered in the southern region of the country, where the Guarani
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