Brazil
Indigenous People
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March
2008 |
For
Brazil, Brazilian, Indians, aborigine,
tribes, rights, land, self-determination,
education, history, health, anthropology,
law, inequality, poverty, welfare,
exclusion, analysis, report, research,
publications, data, study, survey,
statistics
Edited
by Dr. Cristiana Bertazoni
USP-Universidade
de São Paulo
| Articles,
Reports, Law & Studies |
United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, 7 September 2007
Tribe:
Matis , BBC, video (21 August 2007)
and website with information and data
on Matis people
Foreigners
in Our Own Country: Indigenous Peoples
in Brazil, Report, Amnesty International,
30 March 2005
E-Books
on Orlando Villas-Bôas, O Estado
de São Paulo, 2005 (Portuguese)
The
Protection of Indigenous Peoples’
Rights over Lands and Natural Resources
under the Inter-American Human Rights
System, S. James Anaya & Robert
A. Williams, Jr., Harvard Human Rights
Journal, vol. 14, Spring 2001
Rights
and Status of Indigenous Peoples: A Global
Comparative and International Legal Analysis,
Siegfried Wiessner, Harvard Human Rights
Journal, vol. 12, Spring 1999
- UFSC-NESSI:
Núcleo de Estudos sobre Saúde
e Saberes Indígenas: Universidade
Federal de Santa Catarina; health and
medicine issues. Full-text articles
in Portuguese
- UnB-GERI:
Grupo de Estudos em Relações
Interétnicas, Universidade de
Brasilia. Since 1997, GERI offers a
dynamic space for research on indigenous
affairs. Multilingual site (English)
- USP-NHII:
Núcleo de História Indígena
e Indigenismo, Universidade de São
Paulo. Research centre on Brazilian
Indians
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Full-Text
Brazilian Periodicals |
- Documenta
Indígena: database
with full-text articles originally published
by Revista do Instituto Historico e
Geográfico Brasileiro; site
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- Amazon
Link: full-text articles
(in Portuguese, English and German)
on the Indians of Acre
- Arte
do Mito: well presented
website on indigenous mythologies
- CIT-Centro
de Trabalho Indigenista: Comprehensive
website with many full-text articles
(in Portuguese), maps, links and an
on-line magazine Marandu; site
map
- CIMI-Conselho
Indigenista Missionário: A branch
of Conferência Nacional dos Bispos
do Brasil (CNBB). Comprehensive database
about the situation of Brazilian Indians.
Includes news (in Portuguese and English)
- COIAB-Coordenação
das Organizações Indígenas
da Amazônia Brasileira: One of
the most important founders of the most
recent indigenous movement in Brazil
- CCPY-Comissão
Pro-Yanomami: News, Yanomami history,
documents and maps. Also offers bibliographical
reference (in many languages) on the
Yanomami
- Conselho
Indígena de Roraima:
News, full-text articles (Portuguese),
rights, gender, education and health.
Has good and updated information on
the Raposa Serra do Sol (Macuxi area)
- IDETI-Instituto
de Desenvolvimento das Tradições
Indígenas: NGO created and directed
mostly by indigenous peoples themselves.
Offers pages on the Guaraní (São
Paulo), Bororó, Kaxinawá,
Karajá, Krikati, Mehinaku, Pankararu,
Tukano, Xavante and Yawanawá
- IEPÉ–Instituto
de Pesquisa e Formação
em Educação Indígena:
NGO by anthropologists working on indigenous
educational programmes in Amapá
and Pará. Documents and full-text
articles. English
version
- INBRAPI-Instituto
Indígena Brasileiro para Propriedade
Intelectual: aimed at protecting indigenous
intellectual heritage. News and documents
(in Portuguese)
- ISA-Instituto
Socio Ambiental: One of the largest
NGOs in Brazil regarding the protection
of the environment and indigenous peoples
(with site
map and search facilities). Has
a very comprehensive Encyclopedia
of the Indigenous People of Brazil
(site
map and English
version)
- OPAN-Operação
Amazônia Nativa: Umbrella organisation.
Monitors projects with the Kanamari,
Kulima, as well as with populations
living on the margins of the Madeira
and Purus Rivers and the northwest of
Mato Grosso
- Warã:-Instituto
Indígena Brasileiro: bulletins,
articles, documents in Portuguese
- Projeto
de Documentação Fotográfica/Povos
Guarani: GEPI-Núcleo
de Estudos e Pesquisas Indigenistas;
project on photography and indigenous
education about Guarani people. Good
collection of images taken by historian
Paulo Borges
- Rede
Povos da Floresta: network
connecting indigenous peoples via Projeto
Link All. News, videos, documents. Site
map
- Villas-Bôas
& Xingu: by
broadsheet newspaper O Estado
de São Paulo. On
the indianist Orlando Villas-Bôas
and his work at the Xingu. Has texts,
articles and e-books (in Portuguese
and English)
- New
John
M. Monteiro: very useful
and comprehensive page by anthropology
professor from UNICAMP. A very good
source both for students and researchers
- Página
do Melatti:
comprehensive website by Julio Cezar
Melatti (anthropology, Universidade
de Brasilia-UnB) on the indigenous peoples
of the Americas. Includes indigenous
mythologies by the Craô people.
Full-text articles in Portuguese
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- Amazon
Alliance: network of indigenous
organisations mostly in South America;
site
map; in English and Spanish
- Amazon
Conservation Team: environmental
projects in partnership with indigenous
populations in many parts of the Amazon
- Amazon
Watch: US-based NGO with
news and videos. Develops projects in
Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and
Ecuador. See Brazilian
page
- Brazilian
Document Digitalization Project:
Provincial Presidential Reports (1830-1930)
with information on Brazilian Indians
- Center
for World Indigenous Studies:
extensive and comprehensive amount of
documents on indigenous rights. Full-text
articles (in English). Search
- COICA-Coordinadora
de las Organizaciones Indígenas
de la Cuenca Amazónica: umbrella
organisation; papers and documents mostly
in Spanish; English
version
- Cultural
Survival: comprehensive
database of indigenous organisations
and associations for South America
- Minority
Rights Group: publications
and news on gender, land, education
and development; Spanish and French
versions
- Rainforest
Foundation: NGO which supports
projects on indigenous and environmental
protection
- Survival
International: one of the
most active NGOs regarding indigenous
populations in the world; multilingual
site
- Amazônia:
environment, indigenous people; news,
papers, interviews, studies, legislation,
documents; with English
version and search
facilities
- FUNAI-Fundação
Nacional do Indio: Brazilian official
agency for the protection of the Indians
- Museu
do Índio: created
by Brazilian anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro
and now asubordinated to FUNAI. Good
source for texts and visual material.
Site
map and search
facilities
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