RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Several hundred indigenous Brazilians protested outside the Congress building in Brasilia on Wednesday against a bill backed by the country’s agribusiness sector that would limit recognition of reservation lands.
Protesters wearing feathered headdresses and body paint later tried to invade a downtown building to demand the ouster of the head of the government’s indigenous affairs agency FUNAI for not defending their interests.
Riot police fired pepper spray to contain the crowd, and some arrows were shot at the glass windows of the building.
“This bill PL 490 is harmful not just to us, but . . .
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