Forest People

Contemporary Brazil is more indigenous than is usually supposed. Although culturally transformed by the secular interaction of civilizational processes, the indigenous presence is strongly perceived in the physical type and customs of large segments of the population, especially among Brazilians in the Northeast, Amazon and Central West. If it is true that Brazilian indigenous groups […]

Dia dos Indios 2019 – Day of the Indian 2019 This is one of my favorite songs by Baby Consuelo, depicting the beauty and the struggle of the Indians of Brazil. The words are beautiful and you can read them below the Video. Enjoy. Curumim calls cunhatã that I will tell Cunhatã calls curumim that […]

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous People’s is observed on 9 August each year to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. This event also recognizes the achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to improve world issues such as environmental protection. It was first pronounced by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1994, marking the […]

Located in the Brazilian Amazon, the people of Kuntanawa are one of the twelve known indigenous tribes that live in the state of Acre. During the beginning the 20th century the people almost became extinct by the arrival of the rubber tapper.  For almost a century the people stayed off the map from the Brazilian […]

Kuntanawa Chief Leader Haru Kuntanawa Visits with Pachamama Church and Queen of the Forest Haru […]

Sananga Sananga is a plant native to the Amazon, it is used by the people of Kuntanawa since their tribe was established. The main indication of Sananga is to cure the physical and spiritual vision. Sananga is considered a useful natural medicine that is capable of curing all the types of eye diseases: Glycoma, poor […]

Haru Kuntanawa Hope that comes from the Forest “I came to this planet to take my people out of prison and to go back a hundred years to draw and sprout our roots back again, Light the flames that had faded away … and today my people rose from the deep sleep that slept in […]

In the Peruvian Amazon, the labyrinthic tradition of kené, the mythic embroidery of the […]

Native indian Awa Guaja of Brazil. Mother with child. The Awa- Guaja inhabit the forests of Maranhao (Brazil), call themselves Awa, a term that means man, person, people. The Awa- Guaja are one of the last indigenous groups in Brazil only nomadic. Although they are learning to grow maize and cassava, remain essentially hunters, fishers […]