As Brazil celebrates its national ‘Day of the Indian’ on 19 April, a new wave of dam building in the Brazilian Amazon is threatening the lives of remote Indian tribes. Six tribes, including the isolated Enawene Nawe, face the prospect of up to 11 dams being built...At the same time an old plan to build five major dams along the Xingu river has been resurrected and will threaten the livelihoods of the 18 tribes of the region. The original plan was shelved in 1989 following massive international outcry...They are protesting against plans by soya companies led by the world’s largest soya producers, the Maggi family (Grupo André Maggi), to dam the Juruena river for hydroelectric power for the industry.