For the members of the Guarani-Kaiowá indigenous group, the tekoha is sacred land — a place where they can practice teko, their traditional way of life. But despite being the second-largest indigenous ethnicity in Brazil according to 2010 census data, the Guarani-Kaiowá have very little tekoha to call their own.
Indeed, while the sprawling northern Brazilian indigenous lands of Yanomami and Vale do Javari are the size of European countries, the lands reserved for the Guarani-Kaiowá and Guarani-Ñandeva subgroup are far more restricted, often situated dangerously close to urban expanses and privately held farmland in Brazil’s Center-West soy belt.
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