Leadership of the Las Casa Indigenous Land (PA), Tuire was at the forefront of the fight against the construction of hydroelectric plants in the Xingu
In 1989, Tuire Kayapó, leader of the Las Casas Indigenous Land (PA), was at the forefront of the fight against the construction of hydroelectric plants in the Xingu, especially the Kararaô Hydroelectric Plant project, which later became the Belo Monte Plant.
It was in that year that the Kayapó leadership took part in the iconic record in which they brandished their machete against the face of the then president of Eletronorte, José Antônio Muniz Lopes, in a gesture that forever marked the resistance of indigenous peoples.
Today, at 56 years old, the great Kayapó warrior fights for her life and faces cervical cancer, a disease that represents 7,5% of female deaths from cancer, with an estimated 311 thousand deaths per year, according to the World Organization of Health (WHO).
Throughout his life, Tuire tirelessly defended the rights of the Amazon rainforest and its people: “The forests, the rivers, the indigenous peoples: it is their survival that I defend to this day”, he stated in an interview with #ElasQueFlutam.
For Tuire Kayapó to continue fighting for the rights of forest people, she needs support to face cancer.
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