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This entire Indigenous territory didn’t get to vote in Brazil’s elections

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This entire Indigenous territory didn’t get to vote in Brazil’s elections

With no local polling station or means of getting to one from their remote community, residents of the Tumucumaque Indigenous Park in northern Brazil weren’t able to vote in October’s general elections. That’s according to Mitore Tiriyo Kaxuyana, a leader of the Tiriyó and Kaxuyana Indigenous peoples who spoke to Mongabay. On Oct. 22, just […]

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