Irisnaide Silva is female, Brazilian and Indigenous. And for once, in her view, she is being heard.
For decades her family picked and panned the borderland near Venezuela, scouring the hills for diamonds and gold.
They kept digging even after Brazil in 2005 marked the land as Indigenous territory, a measure that prohibited mining despite protests from her family and other wildcatters in her Macuxi tribe.
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