RIO DE JANEIRO Shaking a traditional rattle, Brazil's incoming head of Indigenous affairs recently walked through every corner of the agency's headquarters even its coffee room as she invoked help from ancestors during a ritual cleansing.
The ritual carried extra meaning for Joenia Wapichan
Once she is sworn in next month under newly inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Joenia Wapichana promises to clean house at an agency that critics.