Indigenous Brazilians Must Look Abroad for Support
Indigenous Brazilians Must Look Abroad for Support
A leader from the Kuikuro people of Upper Xingu describes how they are fighting the pandemic — on their own.
ALTO XINGU, Brazil - This year, we won’t celebrate Kuarup, the most important traditional ritual in Upper Xingu, the first indigenous territory demarcated in Brazil in 1961 Through Kuarup we celebrate our dead with dances, fights and painted bodies, and invite guests from the territory and beyond to participate Eight ethnic groups get together to say goodbye to the departed But for the first time in history, we will stay in mourning until our ritual can be performed again in the next dry season, in August 2021 Until then we will cry for the many more who will succumb to this new...
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