Kai village is located in the town of Comexatib\u00e1, in the municipality of Prado in the far south of the state of Bahia. It lies within the Comexatib\u00e1 Indigenous Land, which was demarcated in 2015. The community is comprised of 57 families with a total of about 186 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since 2015, Kai\u2019s Indigenous population has been subjected to efforts seize their land. These conflicts have increased over time. In August 2015, an armed group invaded the community and burned the Indigenous maloca<\/em>, where resident\u2019s belongings were stored. Indigenous people were fired upon in another armed attack that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2016, in another land repossession operation, Indigenous homes, the school and health clinics were destroyed down by tractors. More than 100 federal, civil and military police took part. The community reported the violent police action. In 2019 there was a significant increase in reported violations in this conflict ridden area. Traditional accesses were closed to mangroves and lowlands, which are essential for the physical and cosmological survival of the Patax\u00f3. There were new federal trial court judgments against Indigenous people in land repossession cases. There were new threats by farmers and rumours of local police collusion in acts against Indigenous people. All of this in less than ten months. The violence began during the first months of Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s administration. In January and February 2019, some non-Indigenous people got together and went to the communities, shouting, \u201cNow that we have Bolsonaro, you [the Indigenous] will leave! Now, there is no more indigenous land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n HARARI, Isabel; KLEIN, Tatiane Klein. 2016. O que est\u00e1 acontecendo com os Patax\u00f3 no sul da Bahia? In: Instituto Socioambiental \u2013 Not\u00edcias Socioambientais. S\u00e3o Paulo, 19 fev. Available at: https:\/\/www.socioambiental.org\/pt-br\/noticias-socioambientais\/o-que-esta-acontecendo-com-os-pataxo-no-sul-da-bahia. Accessed: 14 Oct. 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n JUIZ bolsonarista quer expulsar \u00edndios Patax\u00f3 em Prado, na Bahia. 2019. In: Di\u00e1rio Causa Oper\u00e1ria. S\u00e3o Paulo, 10 out. Available at: https:\/\/www.causaoperaria.org.br\/juiz-bolsonarista-quer-expulsar-indios-pataxo-em-prado-na-bahia\/. Accessed: 14 Oct. 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kai village is located in the town of Comexatib\u00e1, in the municipality of Prado in the far south of the state of Bahia. It lies within the Comexatib\u00e1 Indigenous Land, which was demarcated in 2015. The community is comprised of 57 families with a total of about 186 people. Since 2015, Kai\u2019s Indigenous population has … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conflicts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umoutroceu.ufba.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}