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  • Guarani man with sugar cane and tools<br /> © João Ripper/Survival<br />
    Brazil: Guarani-Kaiowá of Brazil win land rights
    12 November 2002 The Guarani-Kaiowá Indians of Cerro Marangatu in Brazil have won back their land after 50 years. Last week, Brazil's Minister of Justice signed a bill for the demarcation of 9,300 hectares of land, covering the Cerro Marangatu area, stolen from the Guaran
  • Guarani Indians<br /> © João Ripper/Survival<br />
    Brazil: Evicted Guarani-Kaiowá camp on the roadside
    31 October 2002 During the night of 12 October 2002, about 200 Kaiowá Indians were thrown out of the village of Tey Cuê in an area called Caarapó, and are now camped on the side of a highway near the town of Dourados, under plastic tarpaulins. Their homes and possessions
  • Guarani mother and child<br /> © João Ripper/Survival<br />
    Brazil: Guarani: respected shaman dies
    31 August 2002 Paulito Aquino, a Kaiowá shaman and one of Brazil's oldest citizens, died on 3 September 2002 in his village of Panambizinho in Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil. Reckoned to be aged about 120, he had witnessed massive changes in his long life. His Kaiowá