Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief for key postRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Sônia Guajajara will head up a new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, with a mandate to oversee policies ranging from land demarcation to health care.“It is a collective achievement of the Indigenous peoples, a historic moment of reparation in Brazil.” The creation of the ministry is “a confirmation of Lula’s commitment to us,” she said in a tweet.In 1998, when he was still a fringe lawmaker, he spoke in Brazil’s Congress praising the U.S. Cavalry for having “decimated its Indians” and regretted Brazil had not done the same.EXPLAINER: 2023 tax credits for EVs will boost their appealMinister: Ukraine aims to develop air-to-air combat dronesEXPLAINER: 2023 tax credits for EVs will boost their appealFrance to provide 2 satellites, receiving station to PolandBolsonaro’s promises to develop the Amazon and his defanging of environmental law enforcement led to a surge of illegal loggers, miners and land robbers into Native territory in Brazil.The lands where Brazil’s Indigenous peoples live constitute one of the world’s most important carbon sinks."