The Patax\u00f3 live in a context marked by several conflicts. First, there is a territorial dispute with farmers responding to efforts by Indigenous people to retake their lands. Secondly, there are conflicts with the beneficiaries of settlement projects established by the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra), in areas traditionally occupied by Indigenous people. Finally, there are tensions with environmental agents of the Chico Mendes Institute for the Preservation of Biodiversity (ICMBio), which result from conservation districts overlapping areas of historic and traditional occupation by the Patax\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One prime example is the Discovery National Park which overlaps the Comexatib\u00e1 Indigenous Land (Cahy\/Pequi). The park was created in 1999 and enlarged in 2012. About 19% of the conservation district\u2019s area overlaps the Indigenous Land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2013, the Patax\u00f3 began to retake lands in the overlapping areas. In 2016, the courts decided in favor of the Chico Mendes Institute for the Preservation of Biodiversity in a reoccupation suit against the Patax\u00f3 and the National Indian Foundation. The Federal Public Ministry took the case to the federal appeals court (TRF-1), which suspended the reoccupation. The Circumstantiated Identification and Delimitation Report of the Indigenous Land was published in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The region has lived in an atmosphere of tension for years due to agrarian disputes involving reoccupations and gunmen threatening Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Comexatib\u00e1 Indgenous Land is close to the seaside town of Cumuruxatiba, an important tourist destination in Bahia. Luxury hotel projects are located there, such as the Tauana Hotel and the Rio do Peixe Posada, which hired an anthropologist to contest the Circumstantiated Identification and Delimitation Report. The Indigenous community has had to deal with daily threats from farmers and hotel owners, who are supported by the Prado municipal government, and its mayor who has already publicly stated her opposition to the indigenous territory demarcation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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BITTENCOURT, M\u00e1rio. 2015. Patax\u00f3s s\u00e3o donos de \u00e1rea na Bahia onde h\u00e1 pousadas de luxo, diz Funai. In: Folha de S.Paulo. S\u00e3o Paulo, 6 ago. Available at: https:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/poder\/2015\/08\/1665359-pataxos-sao-donos-de-area-na-bahia-onde-ha-pousadas-de-luxo-diz-funai.shtml?origin=uol. Accessed: 14 Oct. 2019. <\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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