Indigenous women’s group raided by illegal miners, says federal prosecutor

“If something happens to our people, we blame the Brazilian state,” wrote a group of indigenous leaders to Brazil’s federal government two weeks ago. They were writing from the vast green state of Para, where they said armed groups of miners were invading protected Amazonian indigenous lands with heavy machinery.“If something happens to our people, we blame the Brazilian state,” wrote a group of indigenous leaders to Brazil’s federal government two weeks ago. They were writing from the vast green state of Para, where they said armed groups of miners were invading protected Amazonian indigenous lands with heavy machinery.