The Way of Warriors Annotated Narratives of the Mebengokre (Kayapo) in Brazil By Gustaaf Verswijver Turuti Books, 2023 In The Way of the Warriors, the second volume of the series “Amazon Indians Monographs,” we find a rich collection of narratives and life stories, the product of the memory and experience...
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The Kararaô of Central Brazil By Gustaaf Verswijver Musée Barbier-Mueller, Genève, 2020 The aim of The Kararaô of Central Brazil is to acquaint people with the Kararaô, a group of Kayapo Indians in central Brazil, who in 2010 numbered only fifty-four, by focusing on their extremely complex history....
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‘We are facing extermination’: Brazil losing a generation of indigenous leaders to Covid-19 Don Phillips 6-21-20 As Brazil’s confirmed overall death toll from Covid-19 passes 50,000, the virus is scything through the country’s indigenous communities, killing chiefs, elders and traditional healers – and raising fears that alongside the...
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Relembrando Paulinho Bepkororoti Paiakan Por Janet Chernela 24 June 2020 (Tradução de Carmen Filgueiras. Artigo original em Inglês: https://salsa-tipiti.org/covid-19/remembering-paulinho-bepkororoti-paiakan-6-19-20/) Um dos mais conhecidos defensores dos direitos indígenas e da floresta amazônica sucumbiu ao COVID-19 na quarta-feira, 17 de junho de 2020, no hospital municipal de Redenção, Pará, Brasil. Janet...
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Grande líder do povo kayapó morre por COVID-19 no Pará Felipe Milanez 6-19-20 Ontem, o mundo indígena amanheceu de luto. Logo cedo começaram a chegar mensagens de áudio de choros, tristeza, vindas de diversas aldeias kayapó. Entre as 1209 pessoas que faleceram ontem no Brasil, das mais de...
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Remembering Paulinho Bepkororoti Paiakan By Janet Chernela 19 June 2020 One of the best-known defenders of Indigenous rights and the Amazon forest succumbed to COVID-19 on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, at the municipal hospital in Redenção, Pará, Brazil. Dr. Janet Chernela (University of Maryland), who has known Paulinho...
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