Kayapo Courage

The Amazon tribe has beaten back ranchers and gold miners and famously stopped a dam. Now its leaders must fight again or ...
Yahoo

For the Kayapó, a Long Battle to Save Their Amazon Homeland

For more than four decades, Kokoró Mekranotire has watched with dismay as outsiders have laid waste to ever-larger swaths of his Kayapó homeland. Loggers, gold miners, farmers, and land grabbers have ...
Indiatimes

In 1989, Sting and Trudie Styler backed one rainforest foundation with Chief Raoni. 4 years later, over 12 million acres of Kayapó land gained legal protection in Brazil

What started with a meeting between an Indigenous leader and supporters eventually grew into a wider effort to protect rainforests and the communities that depend on them. In 1989, Sting, Trudie ...
Yahoo

Chief Megaron vows to take the legacy of Brazil's indigenous leader Raoni forward

PYKANY VILLAGE, Brazil, May 28 (Reuters) - Chief Megaron Txucarramae, a 75-year-old leader of Brazil's Indigenous Kayapo people, has spent decades defending Indigenous rights, from securing the ...
Mongabay

Global demand for manganese puts Kayapó Indigenous land under pressure

If you liked this story, share it with other people. InfoAmazonia’s Amazônia Minada project has found an unusual rise in demand to mine for manganese last year in Brazil, one of the world’s top ...
Mongabay

Key Amazon grain route blocked by Indigenous protest over funding, Grainrail

The Kayapó Mekrãgnoti Indigenous people have been blockading the BR-163 highway since 17 August. The BR-163 is a primary route for soy and corn being moved from Brazil’s Amazon interior toward the ...
Purdue University

Kayapó leaders, artists from Brazil to visit Purdue

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Kayapó leaders and artists from the Central Brazilian Amazon are visiting Purdue University in early March. There will be a public film screening and discussion of Kayapó ...

In 1989, after a meeting with a tribal chief, Sting started the Rainforest Fund

In 1989, renowned musician Sting partnered with others to establish the Rainforest Fund, aimed at supporting indigenous ...
New York Post

Indigenous protesters block highway in Brazil to demand COVID-19 protection

NOVO PROGRESSO, Brazil — Dozens of Indigenous people, many daubed in black paint representing their grief and fighting spirit, blocked a major highway in Brazil’s Amazon on Monday to pressure the ...
Reuters

'You wake up well': Amazon villagers take vine tea to treat COVID

PARA STATE, Brazil (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the middle of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, far from the laboratories of the world's major pharmaceutical companies, the Kayapó indigenous ...
U.S. News & World Report

Chief Megaron Vows to Take the Legacy of Brazil's Indigenous Leader Raoni Forward

Chief Megaron Vows to Take the Legacy of Brazil's Indigenous Leader Raoni Forward By Lais Morais and Adriano Machado PYKANY VILLAGE, Brazil, May 28 (Reuters) - Chief Megaron ⁠Txucarramae, ⁠a ...