The Indians of Brazil have been much in the news

lately. In the summer of
1988, Kayapo from the
northern state of Para sat
for several weeks in the an- techambers of parliament while delegates drafted the new constitution of Brazil. They were there, in tribal paint and feathers, to urge the delegates to guarantee Indian rights. In March 1989, the same Kayapo In- dians played host to a week-long Indian summit meeting at Altarnira in the heart of the Amazon to protest the building of dams t...