“Defeated are those who don't fight!”

2024 is poised to be a period of heightened mobilization and resistance for Brazil’s Indigenous peoples, as they continue to confront the controversial “Marco Temporal” (“Time Limit Trick”) legal thesis.

This outrageous proposal claims that Indigenous peoples who were not present on their lands at the time of the promulgation of the Federal Constitution on October 5, 1988 are not entitled to the recognition of their traditionally-occupied lands.

The Indigenous movement, with the active participation of the Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), has played a crucial role in the fight to defeat this radical threat.

Indigenous peoples consider the impacts of a law recently passed by Brazil's Congress to be a form of legislative genocide. As a symbolic act of ongoing resistance against Marco Temporal, APIB will file a Direct Action of Unconstitutionality in Brazil's Supreme Court.