In pictures: Guarani Indians
A look at the daily lives of a Guarani Indian tribe. The Guarani tribe is immersed in a bloody conflict with farmers over possession of their ancestral land that has characteristics of a territorial war, in spite of Brazil's indigenous policy being considered one of the most progressive in the world.
Guarani Kaiowa Indian Dilcia Lopes and her children live in a makeshift camp squeezed between highway BR 463 and their ancestral land called Tekoha Apika'y, where they have been since 2009 when they last failed to take back the land from farmers, near Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul state.LUNAE PARRACHO/Reuters
Guarani Kaiowa Indians live in a makeshift camp squeezed between highway BR 463 and their ancestral land called Tekoha Apika'y, where they have been since 2009 when they last failed to take back the land from farmers, near Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul state.LUNAE PARRACHO/Reuters
Guarani Kaiowa Indian Dilcia Lopes and her children watch a truck pass from their makeshift camp squeezed between highway BR 463 and their ancestral land called Tekoha Apika'y, where they have been since 2009 when they last failed to take back the land from farmers, near Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul state.LUNAE PARRACHO/Reuters
Amnesty International's Secretary General, Salil Shetty (3rd L, dark blue shirt), meets with Guarani Kaiowa Indians at their makeshift camp on the edge of their ancestral land called Tekoha Apika'y, near Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul state.LUNAE PARRACHO/Reuters
Guarani Ava Indian Paulina Takua Rokavy (back C) teaches children in a school she improvised on the edge of their ancestral land they call Tekoha Yvoh'y, as they await a court's decision on the eviction of farmers occupying the land, in Guaira, Parana state, near the border with Paraguay.LUNAE PARRACHO/Reuters
Guarani Ava Indian children have a lunch of peanuts and chica, a drink made from cassava, at their home on the edge of their ancestral land they call Tekoha Yvoh'y, where they are living while awaiting a court's decision on the eviction of farmers occupying the land, in Guaira, Parana state, near the border with Paraguay.LUNAE PARRACHO/Reuters
A Guarani Ava Indian girl has her face painted as they live on the edge of their ancestral land they call Tekoha Yvoh'y, while awaiting a court's decision on the eviction of farmers occupying the land, in Guaira, Parana state, near the border with Paraguay.LUNAE PARRACHO/Reuters
Guarani spiritual leaders perform the Mita Kara'i, or baptism where children receive their native name and others have their spiritual protection renewed, during the Aty Guasu, or Great Assembly, that brings together their chiefs in Jaguapiru village, Mato Grosso do Sul state.LUNAE PARRACHO/Reuters
A Guarani Ava Indian child lights a ceremonial pipe called a Petygua which wards off bad spirits, during a ritual as they prepare to take back their ancestral plot of land they call Tekoha Yvoh'y, in Guaira, Parana state, near the southern border with Paraguay.LUNAE PARRACHO/Reuters
Guarani Kaiowa Indians gather at the place where fellow Indian, 15-year-old Denilson Barbosa, was killed by farmer Orlandino Carneiro who was occupying the ancestral land they call Tekoha Pindo Roky, in Caarapo, Mato Grosso do Sul state.LUNAE PARRACHO/Reuters