“FORGET YOUR SON”: BRAZIL IS FORCIBLY TAKING INDIGENOUS CHILDREN AND PUTTING THEM UP FOR ADOPTION

"You can give up." That's what they told Élida Oliveira, a Kaiowá mother who had her eight-day-old son taken away from her by local government officials. In the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, 50 indigenous children have recently been put up for adoption and federal authorities want to know why.