UConn Journalism Associate Professor Scott Wallace reports for National Geographic on a new documentary co-produced by Indigenous filmmakers who are taking up cameras to save their land in the Amazon from deforestation.
"Encouraged by the inflammatory rhetoric of Brazil’s rightwing populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, a new wave of highly organized settlers began to push into the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous Territory in 2019. The tribe’s courageous efforts to defend its land and traditions in the face of these threats is the subject of the new documentary, The Territory."
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