Alcineis Acate Peres Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Indigenous practices and knowledge in the Amazon triple frontier: The Kokama sociocultural expression at the Guanabara community school II The initial objective of this project is to investigate, through practices and knowledge, sociocultural expressions of...
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Brazil Health Workers May Have Spread Coronavirus to Indigenous People Manuela Andreoni, Ernesto Londoño and Letícia Casado 7-19-20 The telltale symptoms began in late May, about a week after government medical workers made a routine visit to the Kanamari Indigenous community in a remote part of the Amazon:...
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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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Disaster looms for indigenous Amazon tribes as COVID-19 cases multiply Scott Wallace, National Geographic 6-15-20 With the coronavirus spreading into remote territories across the Brazilian Amazon, indigenous leaders and rights officials are pleading with the government to adopt urgent measures to head off a catastrophe. According to figures compiled...
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Disaster looms for indigenous Amazon tribes as COVID-19 cases multiply Scott Wallace 6-12-20 With the coronavirus spreading into remote territories across the Brazilian Amazon, indigenous leaders and rights officials are pleading with the government to adopt urgent measures to head off a catastrophe. According to figures compiled by the...
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BOLETIM Nº 017/2020 DAS ORGANIZAÇÕES KOKAMA Atualizada em 29/05/2020, as 17:58 horas. ?? Povo Kokama informa a imprensa e os interessados: ? Nesta guerra perdemos 52 (Cinqüenta e dois) indígena Kokama por Covid-19 ou suspeito de Covid-19 (desde o inicio da pandemia) em todo o Estado do Amazonas...
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