“If you stop the ritual, everything dies”

The Enawenê Nawê people’s rituals never stop, and to keep them going as they have done for millennia, they need fish. But new hydroelectric dams have made the Enawenê Nawê’s rituals hard to sustain. Holikiari, an Enawenê Nawê leader and teacher, explains.

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