Members of the Kuikuro Ethnoarchaeological Project together with the Kuikuro during the Javari Festival, at Ipatse Village, Upper Xingu, Southern Amazon. The team, led by the Goeldi Museum, and supported by the Pennywise Foundation and William T Hillman Foundation, were there to conduct a workshop for collaborative cultural heritage mapping using drone-based LiDAR and other geospatial tools. June 2023
Explore more background details about the Kuikuro people and the Xingu region in this story map. (Click on the image to visit the interactive site.)
Kuikuro Indigenous Association (AIKAX)
Chief Afukaká Kuikuro
Daniel Kuikuro, President
Scientific Consultants
Helena Lima, PhD. (Museu Goeldi)
Michael Heckenberger, PhD. (U. Florida)
Wetherbee Dorshow PhD. (Earth Analytic, Inc./Puente Institute)
Administration/Operations
Pennywise Foundation (USA)
Bruno Moraes and Morgan Schmidt (Brasil)
Chief Afukaká Kuikuro
Daniel Kuikuro, President
Scientific Consultants
Helena Lima, PhD. (Museu Goeldi)
Michael Heckenberger, PhD. (U. Florida)
Wetherbee Dorshow PhD. (Earth Analytic, Inc./Puente Institute)
Administration/Operations
Pennywise Foundation (USA)
Bruno Moraes and Morgan Schmidt (Brasil)
The Amazon Hopes Collective (AHC) is comprised of an active team of indigenous, Brazilian and international scientists, public health and community development experts. Members of the AHC, led by its indigenous partners, have an unparalleled history of supportive engagement in this region of the Amazon. The AHC is uniquely poised to address current problems, such as forest fires, pollution, food security and, most immediately, Covid-19.
Since 2016 Pennywise has established a successful track record of overseeing activities related to AHC’s goals. It has been remotely coordinating community-based initiatives in the Kuikuro villages and has undertaken primary responsibility for planning and facilitating international stakeholders’ meetings and fundraising activities. Pennywise will serve as the backbone organization of the AHC and will have overall responsibility for coordinating project activities, financial administration, data collection, reporting and will support AHC's monitoring platform and website.
Since 2016 Pennywise has established a successful track record of overseeing activities related to AHC’s goals. It has been remotely coordinating community-based initiatives in the Kuikuro villages and has undertaken primary responsibility for planning and facilitating international stakeholders’ meetings and fundraising activities. Pennywise will serve as the backbone organization of the AHC and will have overall responsibility for coordinating project activities, financial administration, data collection, reporting and will support AHC's monitoring platform and website.
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The Kuikuro speak a Carib language, a language that is still vital but threatened by the fact that it has a small number of speakers and the pressure of the dominant language (Portuguese). We know that the most vulnerable to covid-19 are the elderly, women and men, the guardians of the most conservative variety of the language, as well as, above all, knowledge, memories and verbal arts. |
Amazon Hopes Collective: Covid-19 Monitoring and Response Team:
- Kuikuro Indigenous Association (AIKAX):
- Chief Afukaká Kuikuro, Yanamá Kuikuro (President, AIKAX), Amunegi Kuikuro (Vice President, AIKAX), Kumesi Waura, Uaté Kuikuro and Huke Kuikuro (Geo-spatial technicians), Kauti Kuikuro (health monitor)
- Scientific Consultants:
- Dr. Helena Lima (Museu Goeldi), Dr. Michael Heckenberger (U. Florida), Dr. Bruna Franchetto and Dr. Carlos Fausto (Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro), Dr. João Ricardo N. Vissoci (Duke U.), Dr. Morgan Schmidt (MIT), Dr. Wetherbee Dorshow (Earth Analytic, Inc./Puente Institute) and Bruno Moraes (Museu Goeldi collaborator).
- Administering Organization:
- Pennywise Foundation
Even before the Covid-19 crisis the indigenous people of the southern Amazon were facing unprecedented threats. Widespread deforestation, fires and a hostile government are decimating their tropical forest homes and have left them fighting for their very survival. Now they also face the coronavirus and the reality that a single infection, if spread, could destroy entire villages.
The Kuikuro indigenous community of the Upper Xingu region is responding. As part of a multicultural collaboration, the Amazon Hope Collective, the Kuikuro have banded together with other indigenous communities, scientists, public health experts and other key stakeholders to implement an immediate crisis response that will also lead to long term solutions. The Kuikuro have been using modern geospatial tools (available in their village because of other recent efforts of the Collective) to create precise information on health conditions as well as movement and transportation of goods in the area since the pandemic began in March of 2020. This allowed them to coordinate reparations and response planning with the Brazilian health system to help them cope with the health emergency.
This model has been enormously successful in identifying what will be needed to protect the people of the Xingu. We need your help meeting those needs!
The Kuikuro indigenous community of the Upper Xingu region is responding. As part of a multicultural collaboration, the Amazon Hope Collective, the Kuikuro have banded together with other indigenous communities, scientists, public health experts and other key stakeholders to implement an immediate crisis response that will also lead to long term solutions. The Kuikuro have been using modern geospatial tools (available in their village because of other recent efforts of the Collective) to create precise information on health conditions as well as movement and transportation of goods in the area since the pandemic began in March of 2020. This allowed them to coordinate reparations and response planning with the Brazilian health system to help them cope with the health emergency.
This model has been enormously successful in identifying what will be needed to protect the people of the Xingu. We need your help meeting those needs!
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