By Edson Naknanuk Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff)

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk (Krenak, CS Staff) 
 

According to the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), 8 out of 10 Yanomami children in the northern Amazon rainforest are chronically malnourished. The FIOCRUZ Institute, one of the most respected health and research institutions in Latin America, recently warned that 6 out of 10 Munduruku people in the Amazon have high levels of mercury and malnutrition. 

Hay muchos lugares en el mundo donde los pueblos indígenas no tienen acceso a las necesidades y servicios básicos. En tales contextos, incluso la ayuda más pequeña puede marcar una gran diferencia para la vida de los miembros de la comunidad. Tal fue el caso de la aldea Itaparana, en el estado de Amazonas, Brasil, durante los primeros meses de la pandemia de COVID-19, cuando una subvención del Fondo Guardianes de la Tierra apoyó los esfuerzos de Colectivo Mura para construir una casa comunitaria que garantizara la protección básica de un hogar seguro para miembros de la comunidad.

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk (Krenak, CS Staff)

"We want peace in our territories," shouted Indigenous women marchers in Brazil’s capital city of Brasilia on September 7-11, 2021. 
 

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk (Krenak, CS Staff)
 

For the first time in history, Indigenous Peoples from Brazil are going directly to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, with their Indigenous lawyers to fight for their rights.
 

By Krenak Naknanuk (Krenak, CS STAFF)
 

By Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS STAFF)

In this text in which I make use of a third-person journalistic voice, of denunciation, of a witness, I also change to a first plural voice, because it is not only a people there in another country that is being attacked but my people, my, our relatives and partners in defending human rights, the rights of Indigenous Peoples and partners in protecting the forest.
 

Sonia Guajajara. Photo: APIB

They will not silence you!

Dear Sonia,

Photo: "The Brazilian State is the main vector of the pandemic among Indigenous Peoples in Brazil." Image courtesy of Eloy Terena's Instagram account.

By Edson Krenak Naknanuk (CS Consultant)