The Poyanawa tribe

This day when we were visiting our friends from the Poyanawa they did a cultural [...]

Yawanawa Festival

For the past sixteen years the Yawanawá have celebrated their festival in the village Nova [...]

What is Rapé?

Rumã What is Rapé? What is Rapé? When this question is asked online, answers tend [...]

A day in the forest with the Yawanawá tribe.

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Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia

In one of the great tragedies of our age, indigenous traditions, stories, cultures and knowledge [...]

Sacred Ashes

Ashes are an essential ingredient in Sacred Rapé Snuff. They are burned from a variety [...]

The beginning

The beginning There was a time when death hadn’t reached humankind yet and the people [...]

War, petroleum, and profit: with their backs against a cliff, the U’wa mobilize against oil extraction

By Jake Ling / Intercontinental Cry Featured image: Inside the United U’wa Resguardo on the cloud forests along [...]