Sonia Guajajara, who resisted ex-president Jair Bolsonaro's policies impacting native communities, becomes Brazil's first-ever minister for Indigenous peoples
Brazil's President Lula da Silva greets new Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara during her inauguration ceremony in Brasilia.
Guajajara, who heads Association of Brazilian Indigenous People, touched upon the significance for being the first-ever Minster of Indigenous Peoples, saying, "If I am here today, it is thanks to the ancestral and spiritual strength of my Guajajara Tentehar people." Far-right Bolsonaro's rule saw Brazil pushing for mining on Indigenous reservations and his vocal support for wildcat gold miners — a group accused of invading native lands, raping and killing inhabitants and poisoning their water with mercury.
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