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The Tenharim indigenous territory lies between two medium-sized towns in Amazonas state, and occupies a total of 1.8 million hectares. It is home to several Amazonian tribes. Deusdimar, of Pakyri, said he has no doubt the fires his tribe is facing are man-made. Trained as a firefighter himself, he said it is clear when a fire is natural, judging in part by where it starts - and these fires are not natural in his view. "This is all due to ambition," he said. Farmers are burning forest to open up farmland and "we are hurt directly and indirectly".

Some members of the Tenharim tribe work as firefighters for Ibama, the national environment agency. This year they for the first time lit fires in parts of their forest in May and June in an effort to control fire risks during the coming dry season. The controlled fires created cleared areas around a few key pieces of forest, home to animals and forest foods crucial to the tribe, they said. The cleared areas have helped prevent the fire situation from being completely out of control this year, the firefighters said. "If we had not done this, the fires would have been be so much worse,"

Indigenous residents said they blame Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's right-wing president, for undermining the country's environmental agency. Since Bolsonaro took office, Ibama's budget has shrunk by a quarter as part of government-wide belt tightening, according to internal government data collected by the opposition Socialism and Liberty (PSOL) party and shared with Reuters. Among the cuts were funding for prevention and control of forest fires, which saw a budget reduction of 23%, the data showed.

Many scholars of International Relations (IR), especially in the past couple decades, have sought to study and teach about a more diverse set of political actors to counter-act the biases of a relatively homogeneous professoriate. In a word, this has been described as an effort to decolonize IR. As was noted in a 2016 symposium in Perspectives on Politics, however, political scientists still all too frequently ignore indigenous groups—including Native nations in the United States

IR as a subfield currently lags behind other subfields in examining indigenous experiences

International Security and International Organization had exceedingly few relevant results, and International Studies Quarterly fared slightly better, but these IR journals did indeed lag behind the other journals in terms of substantive research on indigenous experiences

While most Americans still see Moscow as a key U.S. adversary, new polling suggests that view is changing, most notably among the households of military members.

nearly half of armed services households questioned, 46%, said they viewed Russia as ally.

the pollsters found the positive views of Russia seemed to be “predominantly driven by Republicans who have responded to positive cues from [U.S.] President [Donald] Trump about Russia,”