Brazilian Indians gather at Xingu River to end 5-day protest against Amazon dam

AP Worldstream | May 23, 2008| | Copyright

Hundreds of Amazon Indians capped a five-day protest against the construction of a multibillion dollar dam by swimming in the river they say it will destroy.

"Xingu, alive and free forever!" sang the crowd as feathered and painted women bathed their children in the half-mile (0.8-kilometer) wide river and men splashed about to show how they hunt for fish they fear the dam will eradicate.

"We're here to defend our river," said Moxia Parakana, a chief who uses his tribe's name for his last name. "If the dam is built, where are we going to live? The fish ...

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