“An onna-bugeisha (女武芸者?) was a female warrior. Members of the samurai class in feudal Japan, they were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honor in times of war.”
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An indigenous woman with her child trying to resist the advance of Brazilian state policemen who were expelling her and some 200 other indigenous people from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon where foreign and domestic profiteers continue to advance on indigenous land, expelling all those who stand in their way, both through physical force and the apparatus of the state for capital gain. The indigenous people tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against the police, who were armed with tear gas and a number of trained dogs. March 2008.
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