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Takeaways:
- Juma Xiapaia is an Amazon Indigenous leader known for fighting against dam projects, illegal loggers and miners on her community’s lands.
- She was the first woman to become chief of an Indigenous group on the middle reaches of the Xingu River.
- Additionally Juma is studying to be a physician and was one of the 40 Indigenous leaders representing Brazil at COP26.
