Behind the rise of political ground breaker Joenia Wapichana
The country's first indigenous female federal deputy is now the first indigenous head of Funai. Her advisor, the journalist Mayra Wapichana describes how history was made in office 231 of the House of Representatives.
Ten films to (start to) understand the Amazon
From harrowing tales of forced contact to a failed capitalist scheme to build a resource-supplying city in the forest, here is a sample of cinematic Amazonian destruction and beauty
Raoni wants to
meet with Lula
Brazil's most iconic indigenous leader, the Kayapó learnt from the experience of Belo Monte that pressure must be put on white people's governments - no matter the political party - so that nature and the native peoples are respected
‘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”
COP27: Indigenous groups demand Amazon conference
Special correspondent for AGENDA PROPIA in collaboration with SUMAÚMA in Sharm el-Sheikh
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
Barbe-coup in Bolsonaroland
Frontline report from a churrasco protest inside the Bolsonarist hotbed of Altamira, where supporters want the army to overturn the election result
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
