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
Where is the navel of the world?
To launch Francy Baniwa’s book, celebrated as a “literary event,” flames were reignited at the National Museum, in Rio de Janeiro—this time, for the purpose of hosting memories as part of a twelve-hour vigil conducted by Ailton Krenak. Those who lived this experience will never forget it.
Femalize, indigenize, jaguarize: the language powering the indigenous movement
For 19 years, the annual Terra Livre encampment has been a fulcrum of Indigenous cultures and campaigns. This year, for the first time, activists in the movement are able to celebrate their presence in the centres of power and unveil a strategy for unifying politics in the form of an indigenous village. SUMAÚMA records this historic moment with pictures taken by our photographers Matheus Alves e Fernando Martinho
Demarcation now
The destroyers of the Amazon and of all the biomes are working together to keep their losses to a bare minimum under the new government and are already taking their first steps towards the 2026 election
On the ground, it’s harder
The destroyers of the Amazon and of all the biomes are working together to keep their losses to a bare minimum under the new government and are already taking their first steps towards the 2026 election
Right wing and agribusiness flock to former communist in Altamira
Aldo Rebelo, a former ally of Workers’ Party presidents Lula and Dilma Rousseff, now mixes with Bolsonaro supporters and landgrabbers. He is promoting an agricultural-military political agenda in one of the epicenters of the destruction of the Amazon forest
UK Company Mining in Amazon without land agency consent
Serabi Gold is operating an Amazonian mine before completing a consent process with indigenous communities and without the approval of the land agency Incra, which has designated the plot for the sustainable settlement Terra Nossa
“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.
Indigenous women move to the centre of power
The inaugurations of Sonia Guajajara, Célia Xakriabá and Joenia Wapichana mark a new moment in the struggle to protect nature and defend the rights of traditional peoples
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
