Amazon mega-dams stoke new wave of Indian protests
Kayapó Indians to hold a protest against a huge hydro-electric dam planned for Brazil’s Xingu River
Kayapó Indians to hold a protest against a huge hydro-electric dam planned for Brazil’s Xingu River
The Enawene Nawe, a small and remote tribe living in the Brazilian Amazon, is featured in an article in the Sunday Times Magazine by the journalist Christina Lamb.
Hydroelectric dam workers have attacked a group of Enawene Nawe Indians who were fishing near a dam building site last week.
Indians from the Enawene Nawe tribe in the Brazilian Amazon occupied and shut down the site of a huge hydroelectric dam on Saturday, destroying equipment, in an attempt to save the river that runs through their land.
Indians from the Enawene Nawe tribe mounted a blockade of a road bridge in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso on Sunday, to protest against a complex of dams to be built upriver from their land.
A Brazilian judge has affirmed that the Enawene Nawe Indians have the right to fish on the Rio Preto, their most important fishing river.
A group of armed men have walked into an Enawene Nawe fishing camp in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, and threatened the Indians with reprisals unless they leave.
The Enawene Nawe Indians ended their protest at the site of a planned hydroelectric dam on Tuesday.