Stranded for nearly three weeks by record flooding in southern Brazil, one tiny Indigenous community is determined not to evacuate what they consider sacred ancestral lands that are in dispute with real estate developers.

Awkward religious ideas have spread after unprecedented floods devastated 90 percent of the cities in Rio Grande do Sul state earlier this month.

Rescue workers in helicopters and on jet skis are patrolling the flooded streets of Rio Grande do Sul to find survivors after brutal storms tore through the region.

STORY: Stranded for weeks by record flooding in southern Brazil, one tiny Indigenous community is determined not to evacuate what they consider sacred ancestral lands, and over which they are in dispute with real estate developers.