The Xakriab\u00e1 people of Minas Gerais had part of their territory recognized, in 1987, with the ratification of the Xakriab\u00e1 Indigenous Land, located mostly in the municipality of S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o das Miss\u00f5es and with a small portion in Itacarambi. However, a large part of the territory remained outside the demarcated area. In 2003, the Xakriab\u00e1 Rancharia Indigenous Land in S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o das Miss\u00f5es was ratified. The two combined comprise an area of about 53 thousand hectares. Now, the Xakriab\u00e1 claim another area of extreme importance for the preservation of their rituals, identity and their very existence. It is located along the S\u00e3o Francisco River, in the municipality of Itacarambi, in the Xakriab\u00e1 people\u2019s territory of origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Xakriab\u00e1 territory is located in the cerrado<\/em> region in northern Minas Gerais. The climate is hot all year round and the rainy season is in October and March. The Xakriab\u00e1 people raise many animals, mainly cattle, and the climate is very hot, so there are many dams throughout the territory, whose construction was authorized by the Indigenous families themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fact that the Xakriab\u00e1 do not have access to the S\u00e3o Francisco River directly impacts the livelihood of the 36 villages where they live. A high rate of drowning, for example, is reported at the dams, mainly of children between 6 and 11 years old. Every year drowning occurs in the territory, but we don\u2019t have all the recorded data. If the people had access to their homelands along the S\u00e3o Francisco River, this number would certainly diminish or disappear entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Xakriab\u00e1 people of Minas Gerais had part of their territory recognized, in 1987, with the ratification of the Xakriab\u00e1 Indigenous Land, located mostly in the municipality of S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o das Miss\u00f5es and with a small portion in Itacarambi. However, a large part of the territory remained outside the demarcated area. In 2003, the Xakriab\u00e1 … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"coauthors":[19],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conflicts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}