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  • Indigenous people march through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019, protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
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  • A Maya Chortí family at home in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • 11 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: In indigenous woman holds a sign reading "Respect, Rights, Protect the Amazon," as hundreds of civil society and other actors hold an unauthorized protest outside the plenary hall of COP25 in Madrid, to draw attention to the failures of the climate talks and to call on rich countries to step up and pay up for real solutions, and to highlight the threat of loopholes, false solutions like carbon markets, and the need for those who caused the climate crisis to pay up for loss and damage while respecting human rights. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Girls play basketball during a 2014 recess from school in Tuixcajchis, a small Mam-speaking Maya village in Comitancillo, Guatemala. Photo by Paul Jeffrey.
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  • An indigenous Maya Chortí man during the occupation of land to secure some farmland for the indigenous people.
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  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: As COP25 is about to draw to a close, hundreds of young people mobilize through Fridays for Future in a strike for the climate, inside and outside the venue of COP25 in Madrid, calling for urgent action for climate justice. Here, an indigenous woman holds a sign reading 'OK, Colonizer'. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Girls in a camp at Salmon Lake, north of Nome, Alaska, learn to better appreciate their native culture. The camp is sponsored by the Northern Alaska Wellness Initiative and supported by the Nome Community Center.
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  • An indigenous Maya Chortí girl carries her brother who is suffering from malnutrition. The infant mortality rate in this area of Copán, Honduras, among indigenous people was as high as 50% in the 1990s.
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  • 7 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Indigenous peoples mobilize at the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Children practice flying during school recess in Hiowa, a village in the Amazon region of Guyana.
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  • People of the Tupinambá tribe paint themselves with genipapo juice which is a natural ink that darkens slowly. Genipapo is also prepared as a juice to drink, which is effective against bronchitis. The facepaint is of a puma's teeth and whiskers. The women wear a feather headdress, a bark dress and beads.
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  • 10 March 2018, Arusha, Tanzania: Plenary session on Mission from the Margins. From 8-13 March 2018, the World Council of Churches organizes the Conference on World Mission and Evangelism in Arusha, Tanzania. The conference is themed "Moving in the Spirit: Called to Transforming Discipleship", and is part of a long tradition of similar conferences, organized every decade.
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  • An indigenous man holds a sign during a demonstration outside a military base in Davao, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Hundreds of indigenous (known locally as Lumads) are living in a church compound in the city, chased out of their rural villages by paramilitary squads.
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  • Cacique Babao, the chief of the Tupinambá. People of the Tupinambá tribe paint themselves with genipapo juice which is a natural ink that darkens slowly. Genipapo is also prepared as a juice to drink, which is effective against bronchitis. The facepaint is of a puma's teeth and whiskers. The women wear a feather headdress, a bark dress and beads.
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  • 7 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Tupá Mirim Joyan, a Guaraní man from Sao Paulo sings a traditional chant, bringing testimony of his indigenous roots and culture, as people of faith gather in a 'Prayer for the Rainforest' as part of the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid, where faith-based organizations continue to urge decision-makers to take action for climate justice. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Indigenous children hold their hands over their hearts as they sing the national anthem (Lupang Hinirang ) at the beginning of a school day in a church compound in Davao, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Hundreds of indigenous are living in the church center, afraid to return home.
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  • People of the Tupinambá tribe paint themselves with genipapo juice which is a natural ink that darkens slowly. Genipapo is also prepared as a juice to drink, which is effective against bronchitis. The facepaint is of a puma's teeth and whiskers. The women wear a feather headdress, a bark dress and beads.
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  • 7 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Tupá Mirim Joyan, a Guaraní man from Sao Paulo brings testimony of his indigenous roots and culture, as people of faith gather in a 'Prayer for the Rainforest' as part of the Cumbre Social por el Clima, on the fringes of COP25 in Madrid, where faith-based organizations continue to urge decision-makers to take action for climate justice. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Displaced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam from their villages along the Xingu River, indigenous children play in an inflatable pool in a housing project for displaced families in Altamira, Brazil. As many as 40,000 people were displaced by the construction of the dam and flooding of the river.  Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
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  • Doña Filomena, a Lenca woman, on the road to San Nicolás, Intibucá, Honduras.
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  • 10 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: A group of indigenous leaders set out to deliver a climate letter to the COP25 presidency, demanding that indigenous voices be heard in climate process at COP25 in Madrid. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Her face painted red with urucum, a woman participates in a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
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  • Obrania, Waorani indian from Pastaza, Ecuadorean amazon.
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  • 10 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: An indigenous woman blows incense, as a group of indigenous leaders set out to deliver a climate letter to the COP25 presidency, demanding that indigenous voices be heard in climate process at COP25 in Madrid. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • An indigenous woman in Pastocalle, Ecuador.
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  • Albino Franco, eel fishing with a spear in the Sanapaná indigenous community of Laguna Pato, in the Gran Chaco region of Paraguay.
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  • 11 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Daira Tukano, an indigenous woman from the Tukano nation in Northeast Brazil, shakes a maraca, as hundreds of civil society and other actors hold an unauthorized protest outside the plenary hall of COP25 in Madrid, to draw attention to the failures of the climate talks and to call on rich countries to step up and pay up for real solutions, and to highlight the threat of loopholes, false solutions like carbon markets, and the need for those who caused the climate crisis to pay up for loss and damage while respecting human rights. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Sharon Liguyon, 44, is one of almost 200 residents of the indigenous village of San Fernando who fled their home on March 14, 2012, shortly after the March 5 assassination of her husband Jimmy Liguyon, the baranguay captain. Mr. Liguyon was killed by a paramilitary squad led by Aldy Salusad, which was angered by Liguyon's refusal to sign papers ceding the community's land to a large mining company. Convinced they were also in danger from Salusad and his military allies, his widow and other community members fled to the provincial capital of Malaybalay, where they have set up temporary shelters on the grass in front of provincial offices. They promise not to leave until there is justice in the killing of Liguyon..
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  • People of the Tupinambá tribe paint themselves with genipapo juice which is a natural ink that darkens slowly. Genipapo is also prepared as a juice to drink, which is effective against bronchitis. The facepaint is of a puma's teeth and whiskers. The women wear a feather headdress, a bark dress and beads.
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  • A traditionally dressed woman in Buyer, a small village in northern Thailand populated by indigenous hill tribe people.
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  • A Maya Chortí family at home in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • Indigenous children who live on the contested Hacienda El Prado, near Cayambe, Ecuador, pray during an activity led by a United Methodist missionary.
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  • The funeral of José de Los Santos Sevilla, a teacher and leader of the Tolupán indigenous people in Honduras who was assassinated at 6:30 in the morning on 17 February 2017, at his home in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor where he lived with his wife and six children. He was the eighth Tolupán leader to be assassinated in this small area of the country, the killings were linked to land tenure, as non-indigenous people try to take land from the Tolupán people and run mining and logging there. There are several Tolupan tribes in Honduras, split between Montaña de la Flor and Yoro.
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  • Maria Valentina Lopez appears to be heading the ball as indigenous women play basketball in Tuixcajchis, a small Mam-speaking Maya village in Comitancillo, Guatemala.
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  • Laura Zúñiga Cáceres, Berta Cáceres daughter, swims in the Gualquarque river in Intibucá. Her mother campaigned and organised indigenous communities in Intibucá to defend the river valley from being used for a hydroelectric dam. The dam construction that was begun at this site was stopped, but Berta Cáceres - campaigner for environmental and indigenous rights - was assassinated as the leader of opposition to the dam.
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  • A Wichi indigenous man uses a net to catch a fish in the Pilcomayo River in Santa Victoria Este, Argentina. The Wichi in this area, largely traditional hunters and gatherers, have struggled for decades to recover land that has been systematically stolen from them by cattleraisers and large agricultural plantations, and to preserve their access to a river which has suffered increasing levels of contamination from upstream mining and other uses. After years of negotiation supported by Church World Service, a landmark 2014 agreement will divide the land in this region between indigenous communities and settlers, guaranteeing the survival of the Wichi and their access to the river.
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  • Maya-Chortí people celebrate a religious ceremony in thanksgiving for the corn harvest during the Festival de Maíz.
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  • A Guarani indigenous woman in Choroquepiao, a small village in the Chaco region of Bolivia, where residents have started family gardens with assistance from Church World Service, supplementing their corn-based diet with nutritious vegetables and fruits.
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  • Maya-Chortí girls dressed in blue during the Festival de Maíz, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras.
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  • Albertina Sota is a local community member working to clean up toxic acid runoff from the Kumurana Mine near Caiza D, Bolivia. The mine, which is closed, produces highly polluted water that negatively impacts the farms and lives of people living downstream. An international coalition of engineers is working with local miners and farmers to clean up the mine.
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  • Maria Mercedes Gómez (centre), coordinator of the Council of Elders in the Lenca organisation COPINH in Río Blanco, Intibucá. Here she stands at the site on the Río Gualquarque where the construction of a dam was begun, and which they opposed successfully. Several members of the community were killed during the stuggle.
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  • Two women participate in a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
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  • The graduation ceremony for students of the Lumad Bakwit School - a school set up for the evacuated indigenous Lumad people of Mindanao in the Philippines. <br />
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Ancestral lands of the Lumad have been seized, martial law imposed, and 86 of the 200 Lumad schools in the southern province of Mindanao have been militarised and closed, about half of them affected by bombing by the armed forces of the Philippines.
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  • Samuel Alves da Silva, 3, poses as the Incredible Hulk in the one-room apartment he shares with his mother, Maria Ioni Brandowauvis, in Manaus, Brazil. The indigenous family migrated to the city in 2018, joining with other poor families to take over an unoccupied building--the Casa do Estudante--in the city center.<br />
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Written parental consent obtained.
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  • The graduation ceremony for students of the Lumad Bakwit School - a school set up for the evacuated indigenous Lumad people of Mindanao in the Philippines. <br />
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Ancestral lands of the Lumad have been seized, martial law imposed, and 86 of the 200 Lumad schools in the southern province of Mindanao have been militarised and closed, about half of them affected by bombing by the armed forces of the Philippines.
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  • Ovidio Barreto, a Tukano indigenous healer, blows smoke on Humberto Peixoto, a Tuyuka Indian, during a treatment in the  Bahse Rikowi Center for Indigenous Medicine in Manaus, Brazil.
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  • The graduation ceremony for students of the Lumad Bakwit School - a school set up for the evacuated indigenous Lumad people of Mindanao in the Philippines. <br />
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Ancestral lands of the Lumad have been seized, martial law imposed, and 86 of the 200 Lumad schools in the southern province of Mindanao have been militarised and closed, about half of them affected by bombing by the armed forces of the Philippines.
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  • Joenia Wapichana speaks to a community gathering in Boa Vista, the capital of Brazil's Roraima State. She is the first indigenous lawyer in Brazil and the first indigenous woman elected to the Chamber of Deputies. She is a member of the Wapixana tribe of northern Brazil.
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  • Sylvia Denota, indigenous Lumad from Mindanao (centre)<br />
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"I came here to Manila from Mindanao in 2017. We came because of Martial Law, the militarisation in our communities and our schools were closed, we had to evacuate and come here. <br />
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I was in an evacuation centre [in Mindanao] with my parents since 2015, we still can’t go back home because of the militarisation, the area is closed, schools are closed.<br />
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We were planning to go back in April, but the place is still full of soldiers, military, so we don’t know what will happen, we are afraid, but we want to go home.<br />
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My parents are in the evacuation centre still. The military come and go as they please, they go into where you live without warning.<br />
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Many people have been arrested, accused of being NPA, they are sometimes released after a couple of weeks, they have no evidence<br />
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We invite people to visit, to see with their own eyes what is happening to us Lumads in Bukidnon."
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  • Indigenous children displaced by paramilitary violence attend school in a makeshift classroom in a church compound in Davao, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Hundreds of indigenous are living in the church center, afraid to return home.
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  • A member of the Huli tribe from Papua New Guinea participates in a July 22, 2014, march demanding an end to stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV, held during the the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia. The march concluded with a candlelight vigil in which participants remembered all who have died of HIV and AIDS-related causes.
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  • Griselda Arias at her home in Lote 75, an indigenous neighborhood of Embarcacion, Argentina. She is a leader of the Wichi, who in this area were largely traditional hunters and gatherers, but they have struggled for decades to recover land that has been systematically stolen from them by cattleraisers and large agricultural plantations.
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  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • An indigenous woman raises a clenched fist during a demonstration in Koronadal City, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Many of the indigenous participating in the demonstration are displaced, having been chased out of their rural villages by paramilitary squads.
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  • A K'iche' Maya woman priestess leads an indigenous spiritual ceremony near San Andres Xecul, Guatemala.
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  • Teacher Lodema Dela Cruz Doroteo sings a song with children in a class in Santa Ines, an indigenous village in the Philippines. A graduate of Harris Memorial College, where she benefited from a scholarship from United Methodist Women, she is the first indigenous school teacher in her village.
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  • A man paints his face with urucum before a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
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  • Artemis Cruz is a Tikuna indigenous woman in Manaus, Brazil. Her family moved to the city three decades ago from a forest village in the Alto Solimoes region of the Amazon. Along with others from the Tikuna indigenous community, beginning in the 90s they centered their life in the Cidade de Deus neighborhood of Manaus. With assistance from the Catholic Church's Indigenous Mission Council, known as CIMI, they formed the Wotchimaucu Community, today a center for Tikuna culture and for Tikuna newcomers migrating to the city. Cruz is one of several dancers in the community that seeks to keep indigenous culture alive in the urban setting.
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