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Folk singer Pete Seeger and members of his family will give a benefit concert at Sanders Theater on November 23 to raise money for Brazilian Indians and publicize their plight...
...some Harvard parties with my athlete friends and they would introduce me as 'Winona, the Indian activist.' It made me uncomfortable," she says. "I felt like a novelty. Indians were 'in' that year. People come up to me and tell me they read about a massacre of Brazilian Indians and they thought of me. Or they read about a nuclear accident and thought of me. But when people tell me those things, what they are saying is that is the Indians' problem. They thought of me because that is my problem. But it is really their problem...
...bizarre landscape. It is a scene that could belong to an outlandish biblical epic movie or a sinister labor camp. It is neither. Serra Pelada (Bald Mountain), 270 miles south of the mouth of the Amazon River, is the site of one of the biggest gold rushes in modern Brazilian history. It is also an experiment by Brazil's debt-ridden government to harness the skills of the country's hardy garimpeiros-nomadic prospectors who roam the vast backwoods. TIME Buenos Aires Bureau Chief George Russell recently visited Serra Pelada. His report...
...near by. Huge nuggets were quickly discovered, the biggest weighing nearly 15 Ibs., worth more than $108,000 at the current market price. "If we could have only kept the secret, we would have been rich forever," says Osvaldo Ferreira, Genesio's son. Not likely under Brazilian law. Though virtually anyone is free to prospect with "rudimentary" equipment, mineral rights belong to the government, and landowners receive a small royalty fee. The main consolation for the Fer-reiras was that they staked claims on what turned out to be the richest part of the site...
...nearby. Huge nuggets were quickly discovered, the biggest weighing nearly 15 lbs., worth more than $108,000 at the current market price. "If we could have only kept the secret, we would have been rich forever," says Osvaldo Ferreira, Genésio's son. Not likely under Brazilian law. Though virtually anyone is free to prospect with "rudimentary" equipment, mineral rights belong to the government, and landowners receive a small royalty fee. The main consolation for the Ferreiras was that they staked claims on what turned out to be the richest part of the site...