‘Our rights are on trial in Brazil’: Interview with Indigenous movement pioneer Brasílio Priprá

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‘Our rights are on trial in Brazil’: Interview with Indigenous movement pioneer Brasílio Priprá

The “People of the Sun,” as the Xokleng Indigenous people of Brazil call themselves, are no strangers to conflict and violence. In the early 20th century, as the southern region of the country was colonized by newly arrived Germans and Italians, bugreiro militias hired by the imperial government decimated an estimated two-thirds of their population. “There are accounts of bugreiros killing pregnant women and throwing babies and children up in th…