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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Volunteer Joan Jones, 57, at the community centre in Swan Lake, SD on Saturday, November 16, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Shelly Saunsoci, who is both the vice-chair of the community and the tribal employment rights director, in Swan Lake, SD on Saturday, November 16, 2019. “We feel like we are all alone,” says Saunsoci. She has been organizing flood relief with no help from FEMA, the federal or state government.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Shelly Saunsoci, who is both the vice-chair of the community and the tribal employment rights director, in Swan Lake, SD on Saturday, November 16, 2019. “We feel like we are all alone,” says Saunsoci. She has been organizing flood relief with no help from FEMA, the federal or state government.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Shelly Saunsoci, who is both the vice-chair of the community and the tribal employment rights director, in Swan Lake, SD on Saturday, November 16, 2019. “We feel like we are all alone,” says Saunsoci. She has been organizing flood relief with no help from FEMA, the federal or state government.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
A flooded road in Swan Lake, SD on Saturday, November 16, 2019. The state spent over a million dollars to raise the road, that was only open two weeks before it flooded.
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'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction. Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal?
'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction.
Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal? Deep in the Yanomami indigenous reserve on the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, the ruins of an illegal goldminers’ camp emerge after an hour in a small plane and two in a boat. No roads reach here. Wooden frames alongside the Uraricoera River that once supported shops, bars, restaurants, a pharmacy, an evangelical church and even brothels are all that is left of the small town. The army burned and trashed it as part of an operation aimed at stamping out wildcat mining on the reserve. The army may have taken away the town, but they left the garimpeiros, as the miners are called, who this morning are hunched around a freezer, waiting for the soldiers camped downriver to leave so they can get back to work. Up to 20,000 garimpeiros are estimated by Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental to have invaded this reserve, where mining and unauthorised outsiders are currently prohibited. But the garimpeiros may not remain unauthorised for long: the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to legalise their work with a bill in Congress.
Pictured: Noemia Yanomama, Sikamabiu? Community. Maloca Papiu?.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
A corn crop stands unharvested at the edge of Lake Andes near Ravinia, SD on Saturday, November 16, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Old farm buildings are marooned at the edge of Lake Andes near Ravinia, SD on Saturday, November 16, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Volunteer Theresa Hart, 71, takes a break outside the community centre in Swan Lake, SD on Saturday, November 16, 2019. Hart recently lost her daughter to cancer and was devastated to leave that home, even when the mold made it unliveable.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Kids stop by the community centre for food and a drink in Swan Lake, SD on Saturday, November 16, 2019. Tap water is not safe for drinking or cooking so volunteers have been providing food and water from the central kitchen.
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'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction. Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal?
'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction.
Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal? Deep in the Yanomami indigenous reserve on the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, the ruins of an illegal goldminers’ camp emerge after an hour in a small plane and two in a boat. No roads reach here. Wooden frames alongside the Uraricoera River that once supported shops, bars, restaurants, a pharmacy, an evangelical church and even brothels are all that is left of the small town. The army burned and trashed it as part of an operation aimed at stamping out wildcat mining on the reserve. The army may have taken away the town, but they left the garimpeiros, as the miners are called, who this morning are hunched around a freezer, waiting for the soldiers camped downriver to leave so they can get back to work. Up to 20,000 garimpeiros are estimated by Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental to have invaded this reserve, where mining and unauthorised outsiders are currently prohibited. But the garimpeiros may not remain unauthorised for long: the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to legalise their work with a bill in Congress.
Pictured: Yanomamas children carry cell phones at Maloca Papiu? Health Center.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
A home that exploded, killing a mother and her child, outside of Wagner, SD on Saturday, November 16, 2019. The family was relocated from Swan Lake due to flooding before the propane leak.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Flowers and candles form a memorial at a home that exploded, killing a mother and her child, outside of Wagner, SD on Saturday, November 16, 2019. The family was relocated from Swan Lake due to flooding before the propane leak.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Mold and moisture collect on the walls in Deonne Tibbetts’ house in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019. She is now moved in with her sister because there is no other housing and says the only possessions she can take from the house are her pictures.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Water flows from Lake Andes to the Missouri River, near Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Part of an aquifer meant to divert water from in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Kids play basketball in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Kids look through the donations at the community centre in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Jennifer, 32, and Gordon, 41, White Bull at home with their children Kheya, 3, and Gordon III, 2, in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019. Gordon Sr. is recovering from a liver transplant in the mold infested house but there is nowhere for the family to move. They had to remove the cupboard doors as part of mold mitigation.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Jennifer, 32, and Gordon, 41, White Bull at home with their children Kheya, 3, and Gordon III, 2, in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019. Gordon Sr. is recovering from a liver transplant in the mold infested house but there is nowhere for the family to move. They had to remove the cupboard doors as part of mold mitigation.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Jennifer, 32, and Gordon, 41, White Bull at home with their children Kheya, 3, and Gordon III, 2, in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019. Gordon Sr. is recovering from a liver transplant in the mold infested house but there is nowhere for the family to move.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Shelly Saunsoci hugs Jane Gilmore after Gilmore helped deliver a donation of food, water and coats in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019. The community has been largely left on their own to deal with the months of flooding and Gilmore said she wanted the people there to know someone cares about them.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Christine Medicine Horn at home in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Christine Medicine Horn at home in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Chad Medicine Horn shows the high water mark in the basement where he lives in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019. “I just do this all day. It never stops, it never stops,” says Medicine Horn.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Chad Medicine Horn squeegees the basement where he lives in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019. “I just do this all day. It never stops, it never stops,” says Medicine Horn.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
The basement where Chad Medicine Horn lives in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019. A sump pump runs constantly, and he squeegees the water out every morning but it keeps coming back.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Shelly Saunsoci turns back from the smell in Theresa Hart’s home in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019. Hart does not like to visit the home, where there are too many painful memories for her.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Cases of bottled water, distributed at the improvised flood relief centre, are the only safe drinking water available in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
A flooded road in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019. The state spent over a million dollars to raise the road, that was only open two weeks before it flooded.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Houses made uninhabitable by the flooding in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Sand bags protect a tribal office in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
A teddy bear floats facedown in floodwater next to homes in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Houses made uninhabitable by the flooding in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
A flooded road in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
The flooded pow wow grounds in Swan Lake, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019. The annual pow wow and ball tournament had to be cancelled this year because of the flooding.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
A sign in the window of a business in Wagner, SD on Friday, November 15, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
Volunteers Theresa Hart, left and Christine Medicine Horn sort clothes at the community centre in Swan Lake, SD on Thursday, November 14, 2019.
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‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community. Help has been slow to arrive to White Swan, South Dakota after severe flooding compounded long-standing social and economic inequalities.
A broken water gate near Swan Lake, SD on Thursday, November 14, 2019.
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'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction. Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal?
'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction.
Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal? Deep in the Yanomami indigenous reserve on the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, the ruins of an illegal goldminers’ camp emerge after an hour in a small plane and two in a boat. No roads reach here. Wooden frames alongside the Uraricoera River that once supported shops, bars, restaurants, a pharmacy, an evangelical church and even brothels are all that is left of the small town. The army burned and trashed it as part of an operation aimed at stamping out wildcat mining on the reserve. The army may have taken away the town, but they left the garimpeiros, as the miners are called, who this morning are hunched around a freezer, waiting for the soldiers camped downriver to leave so they can get back to work. Up to 20,000 garimpeiros are estimated by Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental to have invaded this reserve, where mining and unauthorised outsiders are currently prohibited. But the garimpeiros may not remain unauthorised for long: the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to legalise their work with a bill in Congress.
Pictured: Gold panning Tatuza?o after army operation.
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'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction. Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal?
'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction.
Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal? Deep in the Yanomami indigenous reserve on the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, the ruins of an illegal goldminers’ camp emerge after an hour in a small plane and two in a boat. No roads reach here. Wooden frames alongside the Uraricoera River that once supported shops, bars, restaurants, a pharmacy, an evangelical church and even brothels are all that is left of the small town. The army burned and trashed it as part of an operation aimed at stamping out wildcat mining on the reserve. The army may have taken away the town, but they left the garimpeiros, as the miners are called, who this morning are hunched around a freezer, waiting for the soldiers camped downriver to leave so they can get back to work. Up to 20,000 garimpeiros are estimated by Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental to have invaded this reserve, where mining and unauthorised outsiders are currently prohibited. But the garimpeiros may not remain unauthorised for long: the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to legalise their work with a bill in Congress.
Pictured: Gold panning Tatuza?o after army operation.
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'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction. Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal?
'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction.
Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal? Deep in the Yanomami indigenous reserve on the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, the ruins of an illegal goldminers’ camp emerge after an hour in a small plane and two in a boat. No roads reach here. Wooden frames alongside the Uraricoera River that once supported shops, bars, restaurants, a pharmacy, an evangelical church and even brothels are all that is left of the small town. The army burned and trashed it as part of an operation aimed at stamping out wildcat mining on the reserve. The army may have taken away the town, but they left the garimpeiros, as the miners are called, who this morning are hunched around a freezer, waiting for the soldiers camped downriver to leave so they can get back to work. Up to 20,000 garimpeiros are estimated by Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental to have invaded this reserve, where mining and unauthorised outsiders are currently prohibited. But the garimpeiros may not remain unauthorised for long: the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to legalise their work with a bill in Congress.
Pictured: Gold panning Tatuza?o after army operation.
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'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction. Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal?
'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction.
Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal? Deep in the Yanomami indigenous reserve on the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, the ruins of an illegal goldminers’ camp emerge after an hour in a small plane and two in a boat. No roads reach here. Wooden frames alongside the Uraricoera River that once supported shops, bars, restaurants, a pharmacy, an evangelical church and even brothels are all that is left of the small town. The army burned and trashed it as part of an operation aimed at stamping out wildcat mining on the reserve. The army may have taken away the town, but they left the garimpeiros, as the miners are called, who this morning are hunched around a freezer, waiting for the soldiers camped downriver to leave so they can get back to work. Up to 20,000 garimpeiros are estimated by Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental to have invaded this reserve, where mining and unauthorised outsiders are currently prohibited. But the garimpeiros may not remain unauthorised for long: the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to legalise their work with a bill in Congress.
Pictured: Miner who did not want to name shows the village of Tatuza?o destroyed by the army during the anti-mining operation.
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'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction. Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal?
'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction.
Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal? Deep in the Yanomami indigenous reserve on the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, the ruins of an illegal goldminers’ camp emerge after an hour in a small plane and two in a boat. No roads reach here. Wooden frames alongside the Uraricoera River that once supported shops, bars, restaurants, a pharmacy, an evangelical church and even brothels are all that is left of the small town. The army burned and trashed it as part of an operation aimed at stamping out wildcat mining on the reserve. The army may have taken away the town, but they left the garimpeiros, as the miners are called, who this morning are hunched around a freezer, waiting for the soldiers camped downriver to leave so they can get back to work. Up to 20,000 garimpeiros are estimated by Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental to have invaded this reserve, where mining and unauthorised outsiders are currently prohibited. But the garimpeiros may not remain unauthorised for long: the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to legalise their work with a bill in Congress.
Pictured: Julio Rodrigues Yekwada visits the gold panning Tatuza?o after army operation.
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'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction. Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal?
'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction.
Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal? Deep in the Yanomami indigenous reserve on the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, the ruins of an illegal goldminers’ camp emerge after an hour in a small plane and two in a boat. No roads reach here. Wooden frames alongside the Uraricoera River that once supported shops, bars, restaurants, a pharmacy, an evangelical church and even brothels are all that is left of the small town. The army burned and trashed it as part of an operation aimed at stamping out wildcat mining on the reserve. The army may have taken away the town, but they left the garimpeiros, as the miners are called, who this morning are hunched around a freezer, waiting for the soldiers camped downriver to leave so they can get back to work. Up to 20,000 garimpeiros are estimated by Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental to have invaded this reserve, where mining and unauthorised outsiders are currently prohibited. But the garimpeiros may not remain unauthorised for long: the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to legalise their work with a bill in Congress.
Pictured: Gold panning Tatuza?o after army operation.
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'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction. Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal?
'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction.
Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal? Deep in the Yanomami indigenous reserve on the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, the ruins of an illegal goldminers’ camp emerge after an hour in a small plane and two in a boat. No roads reach here. Wooden frames alongside the Uraricoera River that once supported shops, bars, restaurants, a pharmacy, an evangelical church and even brothels are all that is left of the small town. The army burned and trashed it as part of an operation aimed at stamping out wildcat mining on the reserve. The army may have taken away the town, but they left the garimpeiros, as the miners are called, who this morning are hunched around a freezer, waiting for the soldiers camped downriver to leave so they can get back to work. Up to 20,000 garimpeiros are estimated by Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental to have invaded this reserve, where mining and unauthorised outsiders are currently prohibited. But the garimpeiros may not remain unauthorised for long: the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to legalise their work with a bill in Congress.
Pictured: Army checkpoint on the Uraricoera river.
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'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction. Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal?
'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction.
Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal? Deep in the Yanomami indigenous reserve on the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, the ruins of an illegal goldminers’ camp emerge after an hour in a small plane and two in a boat. No roads reach here. Wooden frames alongside the Uraricoera River that once supported shops, bars, restaurants, a pharmacy, an evangelical church and even brothels are all that is left of the small town. The army burned and trashed it as part of an operation aimed at stamping out wildcat mining on the reserve. The army may have taken away the town, but they left the garimpeiros, as the miners are called, who this morning are hunched around a freezer, waiting for the soldiers camped downriver to leave so they can get back to work. Up to 20,000 garimpeiros are estimated by Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental to have invaded this reserve, where mining and unauthorised outsiders are currently prohibited. But the garimpeiros may not remain unauthorised for long: the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to legalise their work with a bill in Congress.
Pictured: Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, an indigenous leader from the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest, in the Middle Earth, Amazon. November 12th, 2019.
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'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction. Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal?
'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction.
Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal? Deep in the Yanomami indigenous reserve on the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, the ruins of an illegal goldminers’ camp emerge after an hour in a small plane and two in a boat. No roads reach here. Wooden frames alongside the Uraricoera River that once supported shops, bars, restaurants, a pharmacy, an evangelical church and even brothels are all that is left of the small town. The army burned and trashed it as part of an operation aimed at stamping out wildcat mining on the reserve. The army may have taken away the town, but they left the garimpeiros, as the miners are called, who this morning are hunched around a freezer, waiting for the soldiers camped downriver to leave so they can get back to work. Up to 20,000 garimpeiros are estimated by Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental to have invaded this reserve, where mining and unauthorised outsiders are currently prohibited. But the garimpeiros may not remain unauthorised for long: the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to legalise their work with a bill in Congress.
Pictured: Drying part of the Xingu River in the state of Para?, Brazil. November 5th, 2019.
Since the construction of the Belo Monte dam, fishing has become challenging and sometimes impractical because of the significant decline of fishes and the low level of the river.
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'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction. Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal?
'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction.
Gold prospectors are ravaging the Yanomami indigenous reserve. So why does President Bolsonaro want to make them legal? Deep in the Yanomami indigenous reserve on the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, the ruins of an illegal goldminers’ camp emerge after an hour in a small plane and two in a boat. No roads reach here. Wooden frames alongside the Uraricoera River that once supported shops, bars, restaurants, a pharmacy, an evangelical church and even brothels are all that is left of the small town. The army burned and trashed it as part of an operation aimed at stamping out wildcat mining on the reserve. The army may have taken away the town, but they left the garimpeiros, as the miners are called, who this morning are hunched around a freezer, waiting for the soldiers camped downriver to leave so they can get back to work. Up to 20,000 garimpeiros are estimated by Brazilian NGO Instituto Socioambiental to have invaded this reserve, where mining and unauthorised outsiders are currently prohibited. But the garimpeiros may not remain unauthorised for long: the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has promised to legalise their work with a bill in Congress.
Pictured: Sara Moura's family attempts to pass, unsuccessfully, on a shallow part of the Xingu River in the state of Para?, Brazil. November 5th, 2019.
Sara and her family have been fishing in this river for decades. Since the construction of the Belo Monte dam, they have been suffering from the drying of the river. Fishing has become challenging and sometimes impractical because of the significant decline of fishes and the low level of the river.
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Tribes in deep water: gold, guns and the Amazon's last frontier. Mining reserves – and plentiful fish – mean Brazil’s Javari Valley is increasingly at risk from armed poachers seeking to plunder its resources. So, too, are the tribes who call it hom
The Javari Valley reserve, which was set up in 1998, is home to 6,000 indigenous people from eight tribes, who share its dense, hilly forests and sinuous rivers with 16 isolated groups. Indigenous leaders say the “isolados”, as they are known, are more threatened than they have been in decades – with heavily polluting gold mining barges entering rivers to its east, cattle ranchers encroaching on its southern borders, and commercial fishing gangs venturing deep into its centre. Keeping tabs on their wellbeing is vital.
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