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Suicide rates among the Guarani-Kaiowa in Brazil has risen.

A group of large land owners had confiscated Indian land and murdered Indigenous leader Marcal Tupai while the indigenous continue to struggle.

Ciseases and the demands of European-style economic enter- prises have reduced the indigenous population to a mere three or four per cent of its original total.

Radio program. "There has been hope in Indian
communities that administrators sympathetic to Indian concerns would be appointed to FUNAI, the government department for Indian affairs."

Sixty leaders of 32 Indian nations met under the auspices of the Union of Indigenous Nations in Goiania, capital of the central state of Goias.

Filmmakers Monti Aguirre and
Glenn Switkes have returned from a
six-month research and filming trip in
Brazil. Their film, Amazonia will
analyze the occupation of the Amazon
Basin, including the fight by Indian
people to protect their lands.

After killing an indigenous man by lighting him on fire, the five convicted assailants are no longer being charged with homicide, but on lesser charges.

The 1993 Constitutional revision worries Indigenous groups in Brazil, in regards to demarcation of indigenous reserves and exploitation of natural resources on Indigenous lands.

The Brazilian government continues to ignore crimes against indigenous peoples.

A group of Nambikwara were attacked by loggers and miners in Mata Grosso, Brazil.

23 indigenous peoples travelled to Brasilia to denounce acts of violence against Indians and demand measures for the demarcation of their lands.

The Brazilian government wants to put a dam along the Contingo River in Raposa/Serra do Sol. This measure has been opposed by Macuxi people but the Brazilian government has met the resistance with force.