Brazil's indigenous burn giant coffin in protest ahead of vital land ruling

A indigenous woman kneels during a protest against Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and for land demarcation in front of the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil August 27, 2021. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

BRASILIA (Reuters) - A group of about 150 indigenous people protested in front of Brazil's presidential palace on Friday, setting fire to a giant coffin that had been carried in a demonstration ahead of a landmark Supreme Court ruling over their ancestral lands.

The group was a small part of the roughly 6,000 indigenous people from 176 tribes that have descended on the capital to denounce a proposal setting a cut-off date of 1988 for their land claims.