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Land Stolen from Indians and Quilombolas* in Music and Justice

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  Source: Comissão Pró-Índio de São Paulo                                                                                                                                                                                                       The land stolen from Indians and quilombolas in Brazil has been part of the music sung by artists around the world for a long time, with justice being elicited to say when it is no longer a crime to do this, through the judgment of the so-called “Marco Temporal” (time frame), strangely mentioned as a legal thesis . The power of music and Brazilian and international artists, in favor of the cause of Indians and quilombolas and their stories of betrayal and suffering, is the subject of this text. As Bruce Crockburn said in his song “Stolen Land”: From Tierra del Fuego to Ungava Bay, the story of betrayal continues to this day. Therefore, it has already been said that on the American continent, we are always sitting on stolen land. The hope is that one