Indigenous people send appeal to Lula: “remove miners from our Yanomami land”

In times of COP27 – the UN climate conference – the voice coming from Brazilian forests is trying to find an echo on social media. In a video posted on Twitter, Yanomami indigenous people send a message to president-elect Lula.

"Us, Yanomamis, people of the land, we believe in you because you are a defender of the Earth-Forest”, says the tribe leader. “I want to stay alive, I want to raise my children… I don’t want my land to be destroyed. I want you to remove the miners from Yanomami land.”

“The defeated candidate [Jair Bolsonaro] killed our people.” Look:

The video was posted on the account of Dario Kopenawa, son of indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa, well-known defender of Yanomami land and denouncer of illegal mining in indigenous lands and also of the covid-19 health crisis among original peoples, with the hashtag #ForaGarimpoForaCovid .

Dario is vice-president of the Hutukara Yanomami Association and became known worldwide for his campaign to alert the lives of indigenous people in the extreme north of the Amazon. Alongside other leaders, he collected more than 439 signatures – in Brazil and abroad – demanding the removal of 20 illegal miners in the region.

Curto Curatorship:

• “TAKE GARIMPO OFF OUR LANDS” (Piauí)

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