The government wanted them to die. They refused. 🏹🦠 We investigate the Indigenous Resistance in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. We break down the Bolsonaro administration's "Necropolitics"—a strategy of deliberate neglect that encouraged illegal miners (Garimpeiros) to invade tribal lands, bringing the virus with them as a biological weapon.

1. The "Policy of Death": We analyze the strategy. It wasn't just incompetence; it was a plan. We explain how the state withdrew protection, allowing over 20,000 illegal miners to storm the Yanomami territory during the lockdown. We discuss how the virus was used as a tool of genocide to clear the land for industry.

2. The Sanitary Barriers: If the state won't stop them, we will. We expose the resistance. We discuss how tribes like the Guajajara and Kayapó built physical roadblocks to seal off their villages. We analyze the shift to "The Village as Hospital," where communities rejected failing city hospitals and relied on isolation and traditional medicine to survive.

3. The Supreme Court Victory: The law strikes back. We explore the precedent. We discuss ADPF 709, the historic lawsuit where the Brazilian Supreme Court forced the government to create a specific protection plan for Indigenous peoples. We explain how this legal battle recognized that the Executive Branch was an active threat to its own citizens.

The full list of sources used to create this episode can be found on our Patreon under https://www.patreon.com/c/Morgrain