FILE - The Belo Monte hydroelectric dam stands in the Xingu River in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Sept. 6, 2019. There was ancestry and inherited knowledge.”The legal setbacks raise broader questions about Brazil’s reliance on hydropower, with several dams supplying most of the nation’s electricity. In December, the Supreme Court ordered the federal government to pay 19 million reais ($3.6 million) in compensation to Indigenous communities affected by the dam. Norte Energia denied the damages and said the dam did not displace or flood Indigenous communities. “We can’t accept that social and environmental impacts are ignored.