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
Exclusive: Bolsonaro government cut Yanomami health monitoring after record infant malnourishment
Figures obtained by SUMAÚMA show the reduction in health monitoring started in the second year of the far-right administration, after officials learned that half of Yanomami young children were underweight.
Fashion designer takes style back to forest roots
The Amazonian designer Sioduhi invited SUMAÚMA into his ateliers, in São Paulo and Rio Branco, to describe his journey from the Upper Rio Negro to the catwalks of São Paulo, and explain why he is returning to his ancestral origins
‘I’m here and I’m wearing ManioQueen!’ Amazonian fashion lands in Davos
SUMAÚMA podcaster and creator of Pavulagem, the riverside dweller Maickson Serrão is taking part in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland wearing the hottest styles of Amazon forest
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
Deforestation surges, EU-US countermeasures and more…
A round-up of the best reporting on the Amazon rainforest
‘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 at COP27, Ministry of Native Peoples, and more
A round-up of the best reporting on the Amazon rainforest
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
After the catastrophe comes the difficult part: restoring life.
All of us in the Sumaúma community can help to write this new chapter in the history of Brazil
