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News: Yanomami Tribe has asked the Indian Government to stop buying Blood gold which is gold mined illegally from the Yanomami land.

Facts:

Yanomami Tribe: They live in the rainforests and mountains of northern Brazil and southern Venezuela.
According to Survival International, they are the largest relatively isolated tribe in South America.
They practice hunting and slash-and-burn agriculture and speak the Xirianá language.
Note: Brazilian indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa who secured the land rights of the Yanomami people was awarded the Right Livelihood Award-2019 also known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize.