The Buriti Flower

João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora

In 1940, two children from the Krahô indigenous people found an ox dangerously close to their village in the darkness of the forest. It was the harbinger of a violent massacre, perpetuated by farmers in the region. In 1969, during the Military Dictatorship, the Brazilian State encouraged many of the survivors to join a military unit. Today, faced with old and new threats, the Krahô continue walking on their sacred land, reinventing infinite forms of resistance every day.