Brazil to Host First Indigenous Peoples World Games Daily Times
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First World Indigenous Games Brazil 2015 (Visit Brasil)

A year after hosting the soccer World Cup and a year before staging the Summer Olympics, Brazil is set to stage a new international event - the Indigenous Peoples World Games. The inaugural games will be held from Sept. 18-27 in Palmas in the northern state of Tocantins. "It's a very important moment for Brazil," Brazil's Sports Minister, George Hilton, told Reuters through an interpreter in an interview last week. "It's a time of exchanging knowledge and it's a good time to promote the indigenous peoples through the games."

Hilton said some 48 ethnicities would be represented among 4,000 athletes from 22 countries. Brazil, home to nearly 900,000 indigenous peoples from 305 different nations that speak 274 languages, has held a dozen Indigenous Games for its own natives since 1996 and decided to expand the games into a truly international event.

...Worldwide, it is estimated that there are 370 million indigenous peoples making up more than five percent of the world's population, according to the UN. Hilton said Peru, Mexico, Philippines and the United States were bidding to host the next Indigenous Peoples World Games expected to be held in 2019. The motto for September's games in Brazil is: "We are all Indigenous".

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