Indigenous children rescue Tracaja babies to save the future
With serious effects on the Xingu River's Volta Grande region from Belo Monte's sequestration of most of the river's water to power hydroelectric turbines, turtle children are dying in their nests from hotter temperatures
The forest has a plan to save the planet from the climate crisis
At a recent gathering in the Bolivian Amazon, a group of Indigenous, Ribeirinho, Quilombola, and Pan-Amazonian activists drew up an alternative treaty to the failed COP negotiations
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Indigenous voices climb
Alok’s pyramid, but the
destruction wrought by agro
interests is there too
Brazil's most famous DJ, star of the Sertanejo Circuit, is releasing an album in partnership with Indigenous musicians, but he doesn’t seem to understand the complexity of the cause he has embraced
Amazon Summit: forest peoples prevent government backsliding
By bringing nearly 30,000 people to Belém, social movements and leaders of traditional populations demonstrated their power of organization and an awareness of the impacts of climate change. They plan to be stronger still by the time of COP-30 in 2025
Diary of an Indigenous woman at São Paulo graduate school
A finalist for the Women’s Press Trophy in recognition of her work as host of Rádio SUMAÚMA’s podcast, Elizângela Baré is the first Indigenous woman to work toward a master’s degree in public health at the Universidade de São Paulo, and she wants to prove that Brazil’s public healthcare system should use ancient Indigenous science
Lula slammed for failing to reciprocate Raoni’s support
Some 54 Indigenous peoples from all Brazilian biomes heeded the call of the country’s most eminent Indigenous leader, who made a visible show of support for the president at his inauguration last January. Now they want responses from the three branches of government—and on a tight deadline
“Our sexual identity doesn’t make us any less Indigenous”
Larissa Pankararu, who is openly gay, leads a new front in the struggle, both inside and outside Indigenous territories, as head of the LGBTQIAPN+ policy sector within the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples
Video: two women joined by the war for the Amazon
SUMAÚMA brought together Bruna e Alê, the widows of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, to talk about life after losing their husbands in a brutal and still unpunished murder
Bia and Alê: “We’re not going to let Bruno and Dom die”
Beatriz Matos and Alessandra Sampaio met to talk about living and fighting for life one year after the brutal murders of their husbands
“In mining camps, what’s between your legs isn’t yours—it has to make money”
SUMAÚMA publishes an exclusive story of a Venezuelan woman who came to Brazil at the age of twenty-seven after experiencing continuous violence in her home country. She spent time in 2021 and 2022 as a prostitute in five mining encampments in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory. Her memories and drawings, recorded in small notebooks, give voice to the stories of many women who balance the thin line between money and brutality.
