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The Xingu Encounter 2008 will be a 5-day mass gathering of 1,000 Brazilian Amazon Indians and their allies to protest the development and construction of government-supported hydroelectric dam projects on the Xingu River.
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Brazilian Tribes Say Dam Threatens Way of Life

Mon, 06/02/2008 - 12:44pm

Julie McCarthy, NPR’s South American correspondent filed this in-depth, detailed and evocative feature about the struggle of the Amazonian Indians to stop the damming of the Xingu River. Her eyewitness report on the Xingu Encounter aired May 31 on Weekend Edition—NPR’s most widely listened to show.