The maracas won’t stop
Indigenous leaders feel Lula hasn’t said anything about the so-called timeframe thesis because he’s afraid of Congress. As a result, they are promising continuous mobilization
Can Lula keep his promises to Indigenous peoples?
At the Free Land Camp in Brasilia, Brazil’s president stated that he “would not leave any Indigenous land without demarcation,” but so far, he has ratified only six of the 251 Indigenous territories now in the process, while he has inherited an agency of Indigenous affairs 1,200 employees short and is governing under enormous pressure from a Congress where the majority are anti-Indigenous
Land Women, Seed Women
They have moved to the front line of the indigenous movement and now occupy central positions in the federal government. For indigenous women warriors, the defence of territory is the defence of life and their own bodies. At the 2023 edition of the Free Land Camp, they demanded a national policy to combat violence against indigenous women and began to organize a national rally in September. SUMAÚMA records this historic moment with pictures taken by our photographers Matheus Alves e Fernando Martinho
Indigenous campaigners balance promises and frustrations
Empowered and better represented in government than ever before, indigenous people opened a new chapter in their struggle at the “Terra Libre” (Free Land) Camp in 2023. But as well as celebrating political gains, there was disappointment at fewer-than-expected demarcations.
“Lula, we don’t want to cry because people die”
Women from the Rokoari community, in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, appeal to the president-elect to halt the humanitarian catastrophe caused by illegal mining
Census takers under fire over neglect of indigenous groups
Institute of Geography and Statistics is given five days to explain why no helicopters have been procured to survey three remote areas, risking the omission of 15,000 people
To cleanse ourselves of Bolsonaro, we must fight like a forest
The defeat of Brazil’s fascist president represents a window of possibility. To turn it into a horizon of hope, we must act not against Bolsonarism, but for a radical relationship with life
Message to Lula 1: Listen to Brazil’s indigenous peoples
What do the peoples of the Amazon rainforest and other biomes want from the president-elect? These communities have demands that cannot wait.
Munduruku mothers fear breast milk is tainted with mercury
New study points to illegal mining as the source of high levels of contamination in the blood of Indigenous people in the Middle Tapajós region of the Amazon
