(12 Jan 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Various of police in riot gear positioned outside walls of former Indian museum, next to Maracana stadium, where indigenous activists are squatting in protest
2. Indigenous activists watching police and media presence from behind wall of museum
3. Activists sitting on top of wall, one shaking maracas
4. Activists sitting and leaning on wall of former museum, banner saying: (Portuguese) "Indians: die if you must, never kill"
5. Zoom out, traffic passing in front of Maracana stadium next to former Indian museum
6. Indigenous activists looking through gated entrance to former museum
7. Activists inside former museum grounds, erecting barricades
8. Indigenous activist holding bow and arrow
9. Activists waving white and Brazilian flag from tower of former museum
10. Activists on balcony of museum, banner saying: (Portuguese) "No to demolition, yes to preservation."
11. Carlos Tukano, Indian chief, being led by Icaro Moreno, president of Public Works, to stadium for talks
12. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Carlos Tukano, Indian chief:
"What he (Icaro Moreno) told us there at the Maracana (stadium) is that he is going to find a government-subsidised rental for us. I don't want that rental. Am I asking for a hand out? I am not asking for a handout. I want that building over there for me."
13. Activists stretching barbed wire as make-shift barricade
14. Supporters listening to activists addressing squatters
15. Various of Indian activists addressing squatters and supporters
16. Interior of former museum, with tents where Indians are living
17. Activists meditate inside former museum
18. Protesters holding banner saying: (Portuguese) "No to demolition of Maracana village. It's a historic and cultural heritage of the people of Rio de Janeiro."
19. Indigenous protesters dancing in museum garden
20. Close of woman's face
21. Indigenous protesters dancing in museum garden
STORYLINE
Police in riot gear surrounded a settlement of indigenous people next to Rio de Janeiro's storied Maracana stadium on Saturday, preparing to evict them as soon as an expected court order arrived.
The indigenous group have been squatting for years in homes they built on the site of an old Indian Museum, abandoned since 1977.
The police arrived early in the morning on Saturday and surrounded the compound.
By noon, the residents locked the main gate.
As supporters arrived, the Indians lowered a wooden ladder over the brick wall surrounding the complex to let them in, later pulling the ladder back up.
During the nerve-racking wait on Saturday, the squatters painted their faces and bodies and donned elaborate headdresses, at times playing rattles and flutes or whistling bird calls.
Some displayed ornamental bows and arrows over the wall and through the gate separating them from the black-clad police in body armour.
The Maracana is being refurbished to host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Olympics and the final match of the 2014 World Cup.
Blighted streets around the stadium are to undergo a vast transformation to become a shopping and sports entertainment hub, complete with parking lots.
Most of a favela, or shantytown, about 500 metres (yards) away has already been demolished to make way for the new development.
The governor of Rio de Janeiro told reporters last year that the museum's demolition was necessary for hosting the World Cup.
However, a letter from FIFA's office in Brazil to the federal public defender's office published in a local newspaper said that the football authority had never requested the museum's demolition.


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