Raoni: ‘After I’m gone, the next generation will need to be united’
The strongest root in Brazil's Indigenous movement, the elder put out a new call to relatives: he is preparing his succession, but he is still in the fight. And he promises to ‘give Lula an earful’
The doctors punished for an indigenous health revolution
Deise Alves and Cláudio Esteves created a healthcare model that saved the Yanomami in the 1990s and early 2000s. But because they denounced illegal miners, their reputations have been destroyed and they are being asked to pay millions of reais to the government
Nature is climate: We forget that at our peril
The disaster in São Paulo reminds us that we must reinforce the Amazon rainforest and other natural pillars that ‘hold up the sky'
“Our lives are over”: The Yanomami villages devastated by mining
Residents of three regions invaded by criminal gold prospectors reveal how their communities have been destroyed by contamination, violence and prostitution. Their accounts highlight the disruption caused by the state's failure of care.
How can Yanomami heaven be reached if an image is captured and shared all over the internet?
The indigenous people face a dramatic impasse: if they denounce their genocide to the world, they run the risk of not finding happiness after death
Yanomami Genocide spawns Brazil’s first humanitarian movement for reconstruction
After four years of destruction of the bonds of community and solidarity by the Bolsonaro government, the health collapse that has already killed 570 children under the age of five in the indigenous land unites Brazilians around a cause that is also a country
SUMAÚMA wins human rights award
A jornalista Talita Bedinelli recebeu o segundo lugar por reportagem sobre a catástrofe humanitária provocada pelo garimpo na Terra Indígena Yanomami
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Why our journalism advocates the inclusion of other species in democracy
‘For me, the term climate change means the revenge of the Earth’
In an exclusive interview with SUMAÚMA, Yanomami political leader Davi Kopenawa expresses hope that Lula has become wiser about protecting the Amazon: “Before, he made a mistake, I don’t want him to deceive us again”
Lula, listen to the Yanomami
Continuing the series Nature in Power, SUMAÚMA amplifies the voice of the shaman Davi Kopenawa and other important leaders of one of the most extraordinary peoples on Earth, the Yanomami, who are today at high risk due to an invasion of gold miners into their territory
