Nearly 200 indigenous peoples from all over Brazil walked from the Esplanade of the Ministries to the National Congress on Monday, 24.
The group is in Brasilia to participate in the Acampamento Terra Livre [Free Land Camp] (ATL) movement, organized by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib).
Parliamentarians from Psol and Rede received the indigenous people.
Until April 28, more than 6,000 indigenous people are expected in the federal capital.
The intention is to organize protests against bills considered “anti-indigenous” in the Legislative process.
The indigenous people have called the projects “death bills”.
The proposals refer to the following, among other demands:
- the Temporal Framework of Indigenous Lands;
- the exploitation of natural resources in the territories;
- the regularization of land grabbing; environmental licensing.
According to representatives of Apib, the organizing entity of the event, the camp reinforces the importance of setting boundaries for indigenous lands in the country.
The institution points out that more than 200 indigenous lands are in the demarcation queue of the National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (FUNAI).
In all, 13 territories have the process in progress, with the homologation to be done.
So far, about 600 lands have been regularized.
With information from Revista Oeste