The continued survival of the Yanomami and their way have life was threatened by incursions of Brazilian miners into their territory in the Brazilian state of Roraima in the late 20th century. In 1991 Brazil’s government set aside an area of some 36,000 square miles (93,240 square km)—roughly 30 percent of their ancestral territory—as a homeland for the Yanomami. However, the government’s commitment to the enforcement of boundaries in the early 21st century was intermittent at best.
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