Further Information about IPCST

Xavante

Heart of Brazil

General Information

Links to Other Organisations

Em Português:
Expedição Coração do Brasil - BBC Brasil

Photo Galleries from the Heart of Brazil Expedition

Further Information

We have two sites (‘blogs’) which we try to keep updated. The Xavante site is here. The Heart of Brazil site is here.

During the Heart of Brazil expedition we uploaded regular reports to the News Blog site. These now form a complete history of the expedition. The site also has background information, and we continue to add to it to create an in-depth resource about the whole of the Xingu river catchment and its people.

The Xavante Community Health Centre project is now in full swing. The Xavante site includes information about the new project and how it will benefit the village, which is at the very forefront of deforestation by soya barons. The site will be updated with information about fundraising, and about progress of plans for the project.

If you find any errors on the site or have a general enquiry, click here to send us an email.

Recommended Web Resources

Xavante

IPCST An excellent and well-informed history of the Xavante www.socioambiental.org/pib/
epienglish/xavante/xavante.shtm

Cultural Survival is an organisation in the USA which works for indigenous people: www.culturalsurvival.org/
programs/wara.cfm

This is a personal experience story written in a journalistic style. It includes plenty of background information about present-day threats in Amazonia. www.nativeland.org/circle.html

Top

Heart of Brazil

The Heart of Brazil in the Press

The BBC are featuring the Heart of Brazil Expedition on their Brazilian site. Follow this link to read about its progress in Portuguese: www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/forum.

The Heart of Brazil Expedition and the exhibition at the Brazilian Embassy in London have been featured in several newspapers and magazines. In English:

The Independent, London, 11th October 2007

And in Portuguese:

More Information About the People of the Xingu

The highest concentration of Indian villages visited during the expedition is near the beginning, in the Xingu Indigenous Park.

The expedition included visits to the following tribes. The name of each tribe links to the relevant page on the site of Instituto SocioAmbiental, a Brazilian organisation which has an extremely comprehensive coverage of Brazil’s indigenous people. Tribes followed by (P) have an entry available only in Portuguese:

Man with hair dyed with red Urucum paste and black genipapo body paint Kalapalo
Kuikuro (P)
Mehinaku
Yawalapiti
Nafukua (P)
Kamaiura
Waura
Trumai
Ikpeng
Kaiabi
Suia
Juruna
Kayapo
Parakana (P)
Arawete
Asurini
Arara

An additional site about the Suya, also known as Kisedje: www.brazilianartists.net/articles/suya/thekisedje.htm

and a statement by Kisedje Chief Kuiusi: www.brazilianartists.net/articles/suya/kuiusisuya.htm

A site primarily about endangered languages, there is a wealth of additional information about the geography and culture of the Trumai, Kuikuro and Aweti: www.mpi.nl/DOBES/dobesmap

History

a Megranoti warrior wearing the Brazilian flag in bead work Extracts from a fascinating programme about the archaeology of the area:
www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jtoney/archived%20web%
20pages/earthandskyjimpetersen.htm

An academic analysis with details of some recent archaeological discoveries, from the Land Use and Environmental Change Institute of the University of Florida. Follow the ‘Images>>’ link: www.clas.ufl.edu/lueci/Xingu_Project.htm

Geography

A fairly comprehensive overview of the geography of the Araguaia river from WWF. The Araguaia is the next river to the East of the Xingu. www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0180_full.html

Co-operation Projects

The Pinkaití Project brings together the Kayapó of A-Ukre with scientists from institutes world-wide: www.geocities.com/pinkaiti/

A project to map indigenous people’s use of the Xingu Indigenous Park, by the Amazon Conservation Team working with the fourteen tribes of the Park: www.eco-index.org/search/results.cfm?ProjectID=773 - www.amazonteam.org/brazil.html

Conservation International is working with all 14 Kayapó communities on conservation-based development projects: www.conservation.org/xp/frontlines/protectedareas/parkprofile24-5.xml

Top

General information and news about Amazonia

Mainly a collection of news articles and short features. www.amazonia.org.br/english

a Kayapo man with traditional lip plate and ear plugs Deforestation and Land (Mis)Use

The following are photos selected from NASA. These are high resolution files, so you will need a broadband connection.

This image is from the 27th June 2004. The PIX is obvious, it is the unbroken green area in the middle. The encroaching deforestation is also obvious. The red dots, which you can see as squares when you zoom in, show the locations of fires. http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/19356/terra_xingu_27jun04_250m.jpg

Here is a larger area, again with the PIX and the Kayapo areas obvious. The date is the 7th July 2004. http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/19381/terra_brazil_06jul04_250m.jpg

This gives an overview of the whole of the expedition area. 15th July 2004. http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/19398/Brazil.TMOA2004197_lrg.jpg

We will add further satellite images to the Heart of Brazil blog site: here

Top