Indigenous Peoples Celebrate Land Rights, Funds Gained at COP30

The long ordeal of the Kaxuyana, an Amazonian tribe airlifted from its land during Brazil’s military dictatorship, reached a happy conclusion at the COP30 summit in the city of Belém.

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On the sidelines of the United Nations climate talks, which ended Saturday, Brazil officially recognized the Kaxuyana’s original territory, a vast stretch of primary rainforest roughly the size of El Salvador a few hundred miles west of Belém, in the state of Pará.

It wasn’t the only victory at COP30 for Indigenous peoples, who had unprecedented visibility at the conference, where they staged multiple protests and adorned attendees with body ...