
Yanomami boy with his father’s monkey tail headband, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela As the Yanomami spokesman and shaman Davi Kopenawa says in his book The Falling Sky : « In any case, our elders only had to inhale this unknown smoke to die of it very quickly … This is how we came to know the power of […]
« The gold prospectors soiled the forest. It has been permeated with epidemic fumes, and we were caught in a death frenzy. » — Barbara Crane Navarro