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A tribeswoman of the Guaraní Kaiowa in Dourados, Brasil I got to meet back in 2012. She's an elder of the group, her name translates as something akin to "Legacy of the Pearl Chain".

She should be visible in this video, which also relates their colourful clothing so much better

She wore a lot of seeds in multiple chains around her middle. I couldn't draw these realisticly in that small size, same goes for her incredibly aged hands, which had to be adapted to like like acutally working appendages.

The plight of Indigenous people in Central Brasil is a simple one: Gaining back a certain (and often ridicilously tiny) part of their land. This small group basically occupies the land of their ancestors, which still in possession of large landowners who are farming cattle on it - making a crazy ammount of profit, so it wouldn't hurt them to give back a few acres. Government is currently negotiating the return of said area.

The tribe's water supply consists of a small rivulet, they survive on government rations. Electrical power and health services are non existing. Still they'ven holding out for three years now, stubbornly building their traditional housings in an island of dried out farmland without a single tree.

Recently one of their leaders was murdered by those landowners.

Description

A tribeswoman of the Guaraní Kaiowa in Dourados, Brasil I got to meet back in 2012. She's an elder of the group, her name translates as something akin to "Legacy of the Pearl Chain".

She should be visible in this video, which also relates their colourful clothing so much better

She wore a lot of seeds in multiple chains around her middle. I couldn't draw these realisticly in that small size, same goes for her incredibly aged hands, which had to be adapted to like like acutally working appendages.

The plight of Indigenous people in Central Brasil is a simple one: Gaining back a certain (and often ridicilously tiny) part of their land. This small group basically occupies the land of their ancestors, which still in possession of large landowners who are farming cattle on it - making a crazy ammount of profit, so it wouldn't hurt them to give back a few acres. Government is currently negotiating the return of said area.

The tribe's water supply consists of a small rivulet, they survive on government rations. Electrical power and health services are non existing. Still they'ven holding out for three years now, stubbornly building their traditional housings in an island of dried out farmland without a single tree.

Recently one of their leaders was murdered by those landowners.