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When we were in Dubai at the UN Climate Summit, I spoke to the head of the largest indigenous delegation in the history of the cop.

Sonia Guajajata, Brazil's first indigenous cabinet minister.

She's the minister of indigenous peoples.

I began by asking her to talk about the significance of this moment.

This is your first UN Climate Summit as the Minister of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil.

Can you talk about the significance of this moment

and also what it means to be the first minister

of indigenous peoples in Brazil?

If the first time there's an indigenous minister participating in the cop.

I'm very proud of this big step that we indigenous peoples of Brazil are

taking. As Minister of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, it's the first time we're

here participating on behalf of the federal government.

For us, it's very important, very significant, because it's the result of a big struggle,

a long struggle of the indigenous peoples to

occupy spaces to become more visible and to bring indigenous peoples into playing

a role as a protagonist in confronting the climate crisis.

What needs to happen in Brazil right now and talk about what you have inherited, what indigenous people of Brazil have dealt with before during the presidency of

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