SAO PAULO - Brazil’s far-right administration named a former evangelical missionary Wednesday to head a department responsible for protecting uncontacted and recently contacted indigenous groups, raising concerns among human rights activists about the threat to tribes’ health and culture. In recent interviews with Brazilian media, Dias said he would not seek to evangelize indigenous groups. Brazil officially counts 28 groups of isolated indigenous peoples in the Amazon. President Jair Bolsonaro has said that indigenous groups should be integrated into Brazilian society and that their protected lands can pose a threat to development and national sovereignty. YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...“Every indigenous group sees a connection between the forest and their spiritual world.

Source: thestar February 05, 2020 16:18 UTC