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Brazil first indigenous woman lawyer beats prejudice battle land rights

2014-08-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Raised in isolated villages in the Brazilian Amazon, Joenia Batista de Carvalho grew up loving nature and taking pride in her tribe's customs, way of life and Indian identity. Carvalho is a Wapixana Indian, one of five tribes totalling around 20,000 people who have lived for generations in the Raposa-Serra do Sol - meaning "Land of the Fox and Mountain of the Sun' - in Brazil's northernmost Roraima state. When Carvalho was seven, the family moved to town while her father stayed behind. That...

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