‘Funai is ours’: Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency is reclaimed under Lula

Mongabay
Jan 9, 2023, 9:39 pm381 pts
BRASÍLIA, Brazil — “We, civil servants, are reopening Funai to Indigenous peoples,” anthropologist Janete Carvalho announced in a recent act at the headquarters of Brazil’s federal agency for Indigenous affairs. Under former president Jair Bolsonaro, she said, Funai officials were “really forced to…

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