Tomorrow in Brazil, Indigenous people will be celebrating the annual “Day of the Amazon.” But for many people, it won’t really be a celebration. COVID-19 has hit the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon region especially hard. But as Michael Fox reports, they’re also taking action to protect themselves.
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