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Jair Bolsonaro is backing a legal move to open up large tracts of indigenous territory to commercial exploitation that tribal members call an \u2018extermination effort\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Phillips<\/a> in Bras\u00edlia and Fl\u00e1via Milhorance<\/a> in Rio de Janeiro<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 5,000 indigenous women have marched through Brazil\u2019s capital to denounce the historic assault on native lands they say is unfolding under the country\u2019s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Female representatives of more than 170 of Brazil\u2019s 300-plus tribes have gathered in Bras\u00edlia in recent days to oppose highly controversial attempts to strip back indigenous land rights and open their territories to mining operations and agribusiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday morning those guerreiras <\/em>(warriors) trooped south from their encampment wearing bright-coloured headdresses made from the feathers of parrots and macaws and clutching banners condemning growing anti-indigenous violence under Bolsonaro\u2019s \u201cgenocidal administration\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two demonstrators clasped an effigy of the embattled Brazilian leader whose presidential sash bore the words: \u201cFora Bolsonaro!<\/em>\u201d (Bolsonaro out!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat they want is to take away our land,\u201d said Alessandra Korap, an activist from the Amazon\u2019s Munduruku people, deploring a slew of political initiatives she said threatened indigenous lands and lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foremost among those threats is the \u201cmarco temporal<\/em>\u201d or \u201ctime frame\u201d argument: a legal challenge to indigenous land rights that is being considered by the supreme court.Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Opponents say that, if successful, the suit \u2013 which Bolsonaro has championed as a way of stopping Brazil being \u201chanded over to the Indians\u201d <\/a>\u2013 would nullify all indigenous claims to land they were not physically occupying when Brazil\u2019s constitution was enacted on 5 October 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is illegal. This is unconstitutional. They want to tear up our roots and we will not allow it,\u201d Korap said on the eve of Friday\u2019s march.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at the protest camp, organized the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, Korap said a ruling in favour of the thesis would effectively legalise the theft of indigenous land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe time frame thesis indicates that we have only existed since 5 October 1988. But this isn\u2019t true. The whole of Brazil is indigenous territory \u2013 all of it. Unfortunately, it has been taken away, bit by bit \u2013 and now they want to take away those pieces that were left for us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as Bolsonaro, under whose administration deforestation has soared, the legal challenge is backed by congress\u2019s powerful ruralist caucus<\/a>, whose members are simultaneously pushing a bill that would have a similar impact. That measure, known as PL490, would restrict indigenous land claims and permit infrastructure building and the commercial exploitation of native forests, without requiring indigenous occupants to be consulted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u00f4nia Guajajara, another prominent indigenous leader, said: \u201cThese are all highly orchestrated measures which are designed to take away the land rights of indigenous people and open these lands up for exploitation \u2026 It\u2019s all about profit and money. We champion biodiversity, keeping the forest standing, which is precisely what ensures us life. All they think about is development built on destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Supporters of the time frame thesis argue that setting a date-limit for indigenous land claims will help avoid conflicts and legal uncertainty for landowners. \u201cShould we protect indigenous land rights? Obviously, yes. But we must also protect the rights of property owners, farmers, who are essential for Brazil\u2019s development,\u201d prosecutor Alisson de Souza said during a recent hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guajajara said the indigenous women were mobilizing to repel the latest chapter in a centuries-long attempt to wipe out the descendants of those who inhabited what became Brazil when Portuguese colonizers arrived in 1500. \u201cWhat we\u2019re living through now isn\u2019t any different from what we\u2019ve always faced when it comes to this extermination effort. We\u2019ve seen centuries of violence, spilled blood, rape and enslavement \u2013 and now all of this is being officially professed by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur march is about defending Mother Earth,\u201d added Guajajara, 47. \u201cMore and more we women are taking the frontline in the defense of our sacred Mother Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as the time frame thesis judgment and the PL490, activists are also concerned about the imminent expiration of a series of land protection orders barring the development of areas inhabited by uncontacted tribes. Advocates are urging Funai, the indigenous protection agency, to renew those orders restricting access to remote territories inhabited by the Piripkura, Pirititi, Jacare\u00faba\/Katawixi and Ituna\/Itat\u00e1 peoples. The Piripkura territory, in Mato Grosso state, is among the most affected by illegal logging, and its protection will expire this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Korap said indigenous women would continue to fight despite the onslaught: \u201cThis government will last just four years \u2013 we have been resisting for more than 520.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur struggle is for survival, for life, for the forest and for our children. So we will resist. In spite of all the attacks from the government, we are resisting and we will continue to resist,\u201d she vowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally published in @TheGuardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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