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Villas Boas brothers
Orlando Villas Boas (1914-2002) and his brothers Cláudio Villas Boas (1916-1998) and Leonardo Villas Boas (1918-1961) were Brazilian activists regarding indigenous peoples. In 1961 they succeeded in getting the entire upper Xingu legally protected – the first huge indigenous area in all South America, and the prototype for dozens of similar reserves all over the continent.
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