nytimes President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is moving aggressively to open up the Amazon rainforest to commercial development, including mining and large-scale farming. And for many of the Indigenous people who live there, the Bolsonaro era is posing an existential threat. “Where there is Indigenous land,” he has said, “there is wealth underneath it.”
These are the faces of the Uru Eu Wau Wau Indigenous tribe, who live in the tiny village of Alto Jamari. Amid development, they are barely surviving — just like scores of other struggling villages in the region that for decades have served as havens for Indigenous culture and bulwarks against deforestation in Brazil. Tap the link in our bio for more.
@victormoriyama took these portraits of Tapé, Oatuto, Felipe, Mandeí, Ketllyn, Poajup and Tebu of the Uru Eu Wau Wau tribe. All share the tribe’s name as a family name.