The Fight to Protect Indigenous Lands in Brazil’s Amazon: The Tapajós River Hydroelectric Dam Project

‘On top of a hill overlooking the Tapajós, the fourth-largest tributary of the Amazon in Brazil, lies a village of around 130 Indigenous families, who live between the river and their small fruit and manioc farms.
Walking tracks lead deep into the forest to where men hunt and women gather spicy ants to flavour their cassava flour. This village of wood and palm-thatched houses, and the area surrounding it, is called the Sawré Muybu.
It is one of many Indigenous villages along the Tapajós River that are home to the Munduruku people. In just a few years this village may find itself an island, surrounded by the reservoir of a large hydroelectric dam. Others nearby will be underwater.’
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