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Star Girl: Making the prize-winning Kayapó-language film "Nhakpoti"
Over years and across long distances, an international filmmaking team collaborated to bring to life the origin story of how agriculture came to Kayapó communities, Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian...
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The Cosmic Serpent: A poem on carnival and karma, first published by Sapiens
Most Carnival celebrations in Brazil were canceled for a second year in a row in 2022 due to the resurgence of COVID-19. This poem, which I wrote during Carnival preparations in the tropical city of...
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The Mind of Plants: Book launch by Synergetic Press on December 15
--Synergetic Press has just released The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence, edited by John C. Ryan, Patricia Vieira and Monica Gagliano, and with a foreword by Dennis McKenna. Here...
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The Mind of Plants: Book launch by Synergetic Press on December 15
--Synergetic Press has just released The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence, edited by John C. Ryan, Patricia Vieira and Monica Gagliano, and with a foreword by Dennis McKenna. Here is...
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Women Have Hair, Men Have Nicknames: Remembering Jay Dautcher
When I first created this blog ten years ago, I had trouble deciding on a name for it. So I called Jay Dautcher, my multi-talented polyglot musician-climber-anthropologist friend and fellow Berkeley...
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A wildcat doesn’t change its spots: Gold mining on Indigenous lands in...
A shootout on May 10 between Yanomami Indigenous people and heavily armed illegal miners in Roraima state, Brazil, left three miners and two Yanomami children dead. Since then, invaders have returned...
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Unlikely Blessings: A poem on hope, despair and periwinkle
This poem, written fifteen years ago as my youngest son began (thankfully successful) chemotherapy for a rare immune system disease, was recently published for the first time by Sapiens."Salvation can...
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"The Camera is our Weapon": Kayapó video warriors featured in new exhibit at...
The Kayapó (Megengôkrê) people of Brazil are living proof of the resistance and adaptability of Indigenous cultures. A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York highlights the...
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Fifty Shades of Green: Reflecting back on the Oscar-nominated film Embrace of...
The tragic death from coronavirus of indigenous actor Antonio Bolivar, star of the Oscar-nominated film Embrace of the Serpent, has made me reflect back on all the facts the film got wrong and the...
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Yellow Jessamine: A coronavirus haiku
Yellow jessamineinfects a premature Spring:Fragrant and lethal.Gelsemium sempervirens, known as yellow jessamine or Carolinajasmine, is a toxic plant with alkaloids related to strychnine that figures...
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Catching up with Glenn Shepard: Interview to launch benefit photography sale...
This interview launches a new partnership with Linda Matney Gallery. Proceeds from the sale of selected photographs will directly support vital health services including emergency Covid-19 prevention...
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Toé (Brugmansia suaveolens): The Path of Day and Night [excerpt]
The Path of DayHenchi, a young man from a remote Matsigenka native community in Peru's Manu National Park, left home one morning to go hunting in the vast and preserved Amazon rainforest around his...
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Covid-19: Lessons from the Yanomami [New York Times Op-Ed]
This essay, which I translated and edited from an original draft written in French by anthropologist Bruce Albert, was first published by the New York Times on April 27.--Versão em Português--The...
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Coronavirus Brings Back Memories: Indigenous priest reflects on the global...
Justino Sarmento Rezende, a Salesian priest of the Tuyuka indigenous people from the upper Rio Negro in Brazil, reflects on the coronavirus pandemic from the perspective of his people’s history....
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Amazon under Fire: A letter of protest by Brazilian scientists published by...
As Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro stood before the United Nations in September of 2019 downplaying media reports of increasing forest fires under his administration and denouncing world-renowned...
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Voluntary Isolation in the Age of Coronavirus
As governments around the world decide on public health measures to contain the spread of coronavirus, indigenous peoples across the Amazon, from the Madre de Dios region in Peru to the Xingu...
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The Fish Trap: Winning poem featured by Sapiens.org for World Poetry Day
The fish trapThe fish trap is sun bleached dry halfburied in squeaking whitesand under an equatorialmoon that wants to walk across the blackmirror but instead is twiceswallowed by river and cloudsIt is...
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The Awakening of the Waters: Clean water, health and village sanitation in...
So it was, long ago, people had no clean water to drink.Instead, they drank from muddy swamps and stagnant puddles of algae and slime.One day, Shigentiri, the Dragonfly, watched a man hauling gourds of...
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The Decade of Contact: Isolated indigneous people in the 21st century [excerpt]
José Carlos Meirelles, a retired field agent from Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, FUNAI, refers to the current moment for isolated indigenous people of the Amazon as “The Decade of Contact." After...
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The hummingbird shamans of Peru: Excerpt from "Agony and Ecstasy in the Amazon"
Abanti blew the tobacco with fast furious puffs. The snuff entered my nostrils as a sequence of chartreuse explosions that expanded in chain reaction and spread backwards and upwards, illuminating my...
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