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Indigenous athletes from around the world join the championship to Brazil worldwide More than two thousand athletes representatives of indigenous peoples from 30 countries join this year in Brazil, for the first edition of the World Games representing tribes and native places. The Brazilian city of Palmas, State of Tocantins (northern) will host the first World Games of Indigenous Peoples, between 18 and 27 September this year. The event will take Olympic sports such as athletics and football, but also traditional and native modes, such as running log, the power cord, the rustic canoeing or physical fights. Brazil already hold national games of Indigenous Peoples since 1996, under the organization Intertribal Committee Memory and Indigenous Science (ITC), but this is the first time the event will have an international reach. Marcos Terena, the ITC said that the idea of organizing the World Games was born after several meetings with other indigenous ...