Dyeing the streets red for 100 years
Revelers in Gurupá fight to keep faith and resistance alive during the festival of Saint Benedito in Quilombo communities in the Marajó Archipelago
‘The Forest really is a perfect society’
Photographer Araquém Alcântara talks to SUMAÚMA about his 50 years covering the Amazon and developing a spiritual relationship with the Forest, that is now being destroyed
Love, joy and resistance: Satish Kumar’s advice to ‘seed-activists’ in Brazil
The Indian founder of Schumacher College shares common ground with Indigenous, black, antiracist, and feminist campaigners from the frontlines of the Amazon and São Paulo
‘I’m taking my vital image back,’ jokes Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa
This is a story of Afro-Indigenous diplomacy and unity, when thirteen Indigenous people met the Afro-Brazilian community of Salgueiro during this year’s Carnival parade, which denounced the genocide of the Yanomami ethnic group and exalted Indigenous Brazil
Carnival 2024: Salgueiro shows the pain and the beauty of being Yanomami
For leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa, the parade theme brought to Rio's Sambadrome in the middle of the night on February 12 symbolizes an alliance between Indigenous and Black people to demand 'respect'
Carnival 2024: a center-to-center connection
Genocide and catharsis meet in the alliance between the urban community of Salgueiro and the Yanomami forest
Understanding the Yanomami in Salgueiro’s samba school parade
A glossary to introduce our readers to the extraordinary world of a people who are fighting genocide while holding up the sky
Carnival 2024: Afro-Brazil and the Indigenous Amazon meet up at this year’s parade
In developing its carnival theme, the Salgueiro samba school drew on the knowledge of Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, whose visit to the Rio de Janeiro community forged a bridge between favela and forest, reviving the transgressive power of Brazil's most popular festival
How three women stopped Amazonian archeological sites from turning to pasture
'An artist and businesswoman, a scientist, and an environmental consultant' joined forces to preserve heritage in Monte Alegre, Pará
For a
more-than-human
world
SUMAÚMA and New York University School of Law join forces to center the rights and perspectives of animal-people, plant-people, and fungi-people
