How war is waged on Brazil’s most deforested Indigenous territory
In just thirty-five years, the Apyterewa-Parakanã peoples have seen their territory invaded, the forest cut down for illegal mahogany, and the conversion of this area to pastureland for 60,000 head of cattle – the on-going expulsion of the invaders will indicate the fate of the Amazon
The non-indigenous problem
Capitalism seems eager to kill everything, down to the very last jaguar. To burn everything, down to the very last macaw. To topple everything, down to the very last kapok
The shadows cast by the Supreme Court’s historic cut-off point ruling
Xokleng elders and youth, the 'people of the sun,' are celebrating the outcome of the ruling against the legal thesis. SUMAÚMA was there to see reaction from older members, who remembered past struggles, while also explaining how the high court's decision on land indemnifications could impact the future
SUMAÚMA – the year in images
On the one-year anniversary of our Amazon-centred news community, our co-founder Jonathan Watts shares some of his favourite images from a year of enormous - and mostly positive change - that you dear readers helped to make possible
Edel Moraes: the defender of the forest peoples in Brasília
Afro-Indigenous, a cabocla, and a ribeirinha, the woman at the helm of one of the most important departments in the environment ministry recalls that under Bolsonaro the words 'traditional' and 'communities' couldn't even be used together. Now, reconstruction demands time. 'We're reforesting'
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’
Historic cut-off point: the timeframe of Xokleng children isn’t the timeframe of white men’s justice
In the past, mercenary killers skewered Indigenous children on their machetes; today, these little ones face hazards on their way to school and are the target of racism in public spaces—while they wait for the courts to decide whether they will have a territory and a future, or whether their lives will be condemned once again.
The threat from the so-called Ferrogrão, the 1988 Constitution in modern tupi and other stories
A selection of news stories about the Amazon news to be read in two minutes
Lula administration seeks ‘conciliatory solution’ for Waimiri Atroari genocide during military dictatorship
A report exclusively shown to SUMAÚMA shows chemical weapons were used in the massacre of eight villages in 1970 during the construction of highway BR-174. A retired colonel and Bolsonaro appointee has been appointed to a legal case against the federal government
Valuing the forest can’t be left to the market
As the climate emergency worsens, the Amazon needs money, but on its own terms
