Brazil's Indigenous Peoples move forward with New Minster of Indigenous Peoples!
Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday, December 29, 2022, that Ms. Sônia Bone Guajajara will head up a new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, with a mandate to oversee policies ranging from land demarcation to health care. She is the first Indigenous person to be Minister of Indigenous Peoples!
" Today, I was officially appointed Minister of Indigenous Peoples, this is a historic moment for us, indigenous peoples. This achievement is not only mine, but of all indigenous peoples, because our fight is collective!
It's time to rebuild Brazil, which for four years was the target of a genocidal government! President Lula has taken the commitment signed to us, ensuring us autonomy and space to make decisions on our territories, our bodies and our ways of living. We will occupy this ministry with Indigenous representations all biomes, collective and plural! It's a new era for the indigenous people, our strength of unity that will make this ministry prosper!"
Minister Sônia Bone Guajajara
