Word: funai
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pass right through Xingu National Park, where 15 tribes now live. After a storm of protest, the government finally altered the park's boundaries. Three smaller reservations are also planned. But the government's attitude is best expressed by General Oscar Bandeira de Mello, head of FUNAI, the national Indian foundation charged with looking after Indian interests. "We could spend the next five or eight years in this love affair with isolated Indians," says Bandeira de Mello, "and all we would achieve would be to set back the opening of roads like the Transamazonia...