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An Indigenous women-led revolution fights fires in Brazil’s Cerrado

When they closed their eyes, the Bakairi people of the Santana Indigenous Territory in Brazil heard a sound similar to rain in the forest. It was reminiscent of a summer storm, the kind that arrives ...
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Ana Maria Gonçalves becomes first Black woman inducted into Brazil’s literary academy

Ana Maria Gonçalves has become the first Black woman elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, which was established in 1897 and modeled after the Académie Française. The 54-year-old Brazilian ...
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Indigenous women lead a firefighting brigade in Brazil’s Cerrado

When a 2018 fire burned across 73,000 hectares (180,000 acres) of the Santana Indigenous Territory, located in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna, the local Bakairi people waited helplessly for authorities who ...
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Indigenous people reflect on the meaning of their participation in COP30 climate talks

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous people filled the streets, paddled the waterways and protested at the heart of the venue to make their voices heard during the United Nations climate talks that were ...