The constitution will be the first document to be rendered into Guarani-Kaiowá, Tikuna, and Kaingang, as part of a program aiming to incorporate indigenous languages into Brazilian law.
No violence against reform advocates will be tolerated, Brazil’s Minister for Agricultural Development and Family Farming Paulo Teixeira added. He spoke at a meeting of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement.
Some 15 thousand kits will be distributed by the end of March. The initiative comes as part of Operation Catrimani, of the Armed Forces.
The president met with ministers a year after the humanitarian crisis in the Yanomami indigenous territory came to light.
The move invalidates the proposal defended by landowners. Before the result, court rulings could establish that indigenous people only had the right to land that was in their possession on October 5, 1988, when the current Constitution was promulgated.
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