Stories

A Born Activist

Environmental activist Samela Sateré Mawé is showing how Indigenous youth in Brazil are taking control of their own narrative and using contemporary weapons in the fight to defend their territories.

Waters that flow

Indigenous artist Seba Calfuqueo’s work explores identity and how binaries introduced through colonisation are still limiting the human and non-human world.

Xingu Resistance

On a visit to the Xingu, Brazilian journalist Yula Rocha encounters Indigenous communities under threat, and meets Indigenous artists and activists using their ancient culture to fight back.

The Plant Name-Giver

Mogaje Guihu is a sage of the Nonuya people who possesses the ancestral knowledge of medicinal plants and the ecological systems of the Amazon basin.

Ex-Pajé

Perpera Suruí is a former shaman of the Paiter Suruí people, based in the village of Lapetanha, Amazonia, Brazil. Contact was first made with the Paiter Suruí on 7 September 1969.

Ya nomaimi! Ya nomaimi! Ya nomaimi!

The Yanomami say that Omama, the demiurge, created the tree of dreams so that humans could dream. When the flowers of this tree bloom, dreams are sent to the Yanomami.

Women of the Earth

Fabrícia Sabanê is the coordinator of the Associação das Guerreiras Indígenas de Rondônia (AGIR), an organisation working alongside Indigenous women in the State of Rondônia, Brazil.

UÝRA

Uýra Sodoma is a manifestation of the biologist, ecologist, visual artist and art educator Emerson Pontes. Uýra tells stories to and for their community via the emotion of the imagination

‘You don’t know the spirits of the forest’

Davi Kopenawa is a Yanomami shaman and spokesperson and founder of the Hutukara Yanomami Association. His words rippled throughout the world with the book The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman

Querênça

A Poem by Yacunã Tuxá