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Há muitas formas de defender a Amazônia. Entre os povos que habitam a floresta, há extrativismo sustentável, há regeneração de áreas desmatadas, há coleta de sementes para reflorestamento, há brigadas comunitárias de...

Há algo de novo emergindo da Amazônia brasileira: vozes fortes e jovens ecoando no ativismo ambiental em defesa da floresta e dos povos originários. Assim como Beka Munduruku, uma nova geração munida de celulares e câmeras resiste para continuar existindo...

A forte demanda pela soja brasileira, que representa quase metade do valor total global de exportações dessa commodity, tem incentivado produtores brasileiros a expandir suas fazendas para uma nova fronteira: a floresta amazônica. Sob o argumento de fornecer alimentos para o...

Há bem mais no subsolo da Amazônia do que podemos imaginar, e isso torna esse território cada vez mais cobiçado. As operações legais e ilegais de extração de metais preciosos, principalmente ouro, estão espalhadas pela floresta...

Por que a Amazônia está queimando nos últimos anos? Beka vai para a região mais tensa do estado do Pará com nossa equipe para questionar autoridades locais e fazendeiros sobre o aumento das práticas de incêndio em áreas protegidas e...

O povo Munduruku lutou quatro anos contra o Complexo Hidrelétrico do Tapajós, engavetado em 2016. Mas as ameaças dos grandes projetos de investimento na Amazônia se multiplicam, envolvendo ferrovias, rodovias, mineradoras, hidrelétricas e linhas de...

Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the vital importance literature and language play in Native American heritage, illuminating the inseparability of the land and the Native American people, enlivening the ways and wisdom of the old-time people, or exploding in outrage over the government's long-standing, racist treatment of Native Americans, Silko does so with eloquence and power, born from her profound devotion to all that is Native American.

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The jagged mountains dividing China and Burma belong to the Wa, an indigenous group who have outwitted the CIA to create the world's mightiest narco-state, controlling more territory than Israel and with more troops than Sweden. Are they crime lords? Or visionaries? Wa State has become a real...

A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood.

Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside”. Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay”.

Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent. Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. It investigates a twin revolution: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in the second half of the 20th century and the uncovering of the traces of ancient Australia.

A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding. In this moving narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and complex, unforgettable characters.

After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, our democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology, and in this astonishing, ground-breaking book takes a giant step toward recovering a true American history.

Based on the life of the author and members of her tribe, these stories provide a revealing glimpse into the world of the Dakota-Sioux at the turn of the last century. Part One is based on the experiences of the author, and describes a young girl growing up in a changing environment. Part Two consists of revealing stories about other members of her tribe.

Taken from writings, orations, and recorded observations of life, this audiobook selects the best of Native American wisdom and distills it to its essence in short, digestible quotes - perhaps even more timely now than when they were first written. In addition to the short passages, this edition includes the complete "Soul of an Indian", as well as other writings by Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman), one of the great interpreters of American Indian thought, and three great speeches by Chiefs Joseph, Seattle, and Red Jacket.

Here is one of the most extraordinary and invaluable documents in the annals of Native American history: the authentic testament of a remarkable “war shaman” who, for several years, held off both Mexico and the United States in fierce defense of Apache lands. During 1905 and 1906, Geronimo...

Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy - "Zits" - who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity. With powerful, swift prose, Flight follows the troubled teenager as he learns that violence is not the answer.

One cannot turn on the news today without a report on an extreme-weather event or the latest update on Antarctica. But while our politicians argue, the truth is that climate change is already here. Nobody knows this better than Indigenous peoples, who, having developed an intimate relationship with ecosystems over generations, have observed these changes for decades. For them, climate change is not an abstract concept or policy issue, but the reality of daily life. 

Quando você vê imagens da Floresta Amazônica, já se perguntou quem é o dono daquilo tudo? Boa parte desse território pertence à União, ao Estado brasileiro, mas quase um quarto dele já foi ocupado por invasores, uma atividade criminosa...