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Supreme Court decides on the fate of 300 indigenous lands
Brazil’s Supreme Court will resume a trial today which began last year and could drastically alter the criteria deciding what constitutes indigenous land.
- The court will analyze a specific case, regarding a piece of land in the southern state of Santa Catarina that is claimed by the Xokleng people — an originally nomadic tribe that was almost wiped out after battling settlers in the past and rural producers in the present.
- They are now confined to a strip of land on the banks of the Itajaí River.
Why it matters. The Supreme Court case decided to make this a landmark case, meaning its outcome will be used to settle all similar disputes.
What they are saying. The case illustrates a decades-long dispute between rural producers and indigenous groups. The latter claims its right to land must be granted based on their ancestral connection to a given territory.
- Rural lobbies, however, want to establish October 5, 1988 (when the