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[lilithcairu]

the power of the witch . #Roraima #nonbinary #witch #indigena #wapixana #wapichana (em Em Boa Vista Roraima) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNf580BFRo-/?igshid=1r0z9ttc4o0ia

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazil’s first indigenous woman elected to congress wins UN Prize!!!

Joênia Wapixana (officially Joênia Batista de Carvalho) (born 1974) is the first indigenous lawyer in Brazil and a member of the Wapixana tribe of northern Brazil. After taking a land dispute to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Wapixana became the first indigenous lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court of Brazil. She is the current president of the National Commission for the Defense of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

She was elected federal deputy for Sustainability Network representing the state of Roraima, in the 2018 general election. Batista de Carvalho is the first indigenous woman deputy elect in Brazil and the second indigenous federal deputy since the election of Mário Juruna, in 1982

And now she’s won the United Nations’ Human Rights Prize! People who have won it include Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and Malala Yousafzai.

"I'm very happy to be answering the call of all the indigenous people who yearn to have their rights represented in Congress," she told Al Jazeera just after winning her seat.

"People had the hope to believe we can create positive change, that we can have a voice there to represent our rights."

Congratulations, Joenia!

[shigeakialvesphotos-blog]

Arte Indígena produzida pelo artista indígena contemporâneo cordão em arte plumária e sementes amazônicas por @DonesSantos #Wapixana e cordão em miçangas vermelhas por @PajéVandaMacuxi #Macuxi, processos de consolidação da Arte Ancestral, do Extremo Norte do Brasil - Roraima.

[paulomaya]

Registros dos filhos de Makunaíma - Theodor Koch-Grünberg - 1910 #wapixana #makuxi