Raposa Serra do Sol

Raposa Serra do Sol is an Indian reservation in the Brazilian state of Roraima, at the point where Brazil borders Venezuela and Guyana. The reserve comprises 46% of the area of the state, with an Indian population of 14,000, out of a total population of 390,000. Six non-Indian rice planters occupy 15,000 hectares of the reservation, and have legally contested, for the past twenty years, efforts to compel them to return the land to Indian control. The Indians' case is now before the Brazilian Supreme Court.