Tuxa Ta Pame Affirms Ka-apor Self-Government

Ka’apor people performing a ceremony (© Poema/Johann Graf)

“We don’t want to be wealthy with money — we are already wealthy by nature.”

Mariuz Ka’apor

August was another moment for us, Tuxa Ta Pame – the Ka’apor Governing Council — to affirm our mair project against the sarakura project that has been threatening our life and communities in the Alto Turiaçu Territory, in Maranhão, Brazil. (In ka’apor, mair is an omnipresent, omniscient being, who is wherever the ka’apor are; saracura is a bird that represents betrayal...