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Brazil: Nomad Tribe Protest to Prove Its Existence

Written byDiego Casaes
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Posted 31 July 2010 15 years ago

Altino Machado blogs on the tribe Awá-Guajá, a group of nomad indigenous who emerged from the heart of the Amazon forest to prove their existence [pt] and to demand that their land be protected from invasion. Survival International also reported on the story.

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