TERRITORY · Amazonas, Upper Rio Negro
Balaio
A peri-urban territory near São Gabriel da Cachoeira, the most Indigenous municipality in Brazil (~93%). Work here centers on culture, education and Indigenous cooperativism with Álvaro Tukano.
PEOPLES
Tukano, Baniwa and other Upper Rio Negro peoples, in a region famous for its rock art, origin narratives, and as a major center of cassava domestication.
PRIORITY NEEDS
Cultural center · Communication tools
Chief portrait
Alvaro Tukano
TERRITORIAL LEADERSHIP
Cooperíndio, Brazil’s first Indigenous cooperative
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AREA
257,000 ha
São Gabriel da Cachoeira region
POPULATION
Upper Rio Negro communities
COMMUNITIES
Peri-urban territory
FOCAL ACTOR
Cooperíndio, Brazil’s first Indigenous cooperative
Projects in Balaio
Priorities defined by the territory’s own leadership
CULTURE
Cultural center
A community cultural center for the Upper Rio Negro peoples, a home for language, memory and exchange between generations.
COMMUNICATION
Communication tools
Equipment and training so communities produce their own narratives and participate in public consultations.
COOPERATIVISM
Sacred Seeds & Cooperíndio
Strengthening Indigenous cooperativism around cassava, peppers and flour houses, in Brazil’s major center of cassava domestication.
SACRED SEEDS
In this territory
Cassava varieties, peppers, flour houses and medicinal plants, an economic front with Cooperíndio and an educational front with the Parintins School.
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