Firing arrows, indigenous people in Brazil protest bill curtailing land rights

Uinatam Pataxo, of the Pataxo tribe, looks on during a protest for land demarcation and against President Jair Bolsonaro's government, in front of the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil June 16, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Several hundred indigenous Brazilians protested outside the Congress building in Brasilia on Wednesday against a bill backed by the country's farm sector that would limit recognition of reservation lands.

Protesters wearing feathered headdresses and body paint later tried to invade a downtown building to demand the ouster of the head of the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai for not defending their interests.