Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
Davi Yanomami Kopenawa (* around 1955 in the Brazilian state of Roraima ) is shaman and leader of the Yanomami - Indians in Brazil. He campaigns for the rights of the Brazilian indigenous peoples, especially for securing their land rights. He has received international awards for his commitment.
Since 1985, Davi has campaigned for the vast areas of the Yanomami in the states of Roraima and Amazonas to be recognized as their property. Gold diggers had invaded these regions in the mid-1980s. As a result, many Yanomami died from imported infectious diseases against which they had no defenses.
Offices and Awards
In 1989, Davi accepted the Right Livelihood Award , also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, as the representative of the human rights organization Survival International , which campaigns for indigenous peoples . Two years later, in 1991, Davi received the United Nations - Global 500 Award , which recognized his work in protecting the rainforest. In 1999 President Fernando Henrique Cardoso awarded Davi the Rio Branco Order .
In 2004, Davi and other Yanomami leaders founded the Hutukara Associação Yanomami (“the part of heaven where the earth was born”). In 2007 Davi visited Germany and handed a letter to the Federal Chancellery requesting that the ILO 169 Convention for the Protection of Indigenous Rights be signed ( Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries ). In 2009 he received an honorary award from the jury of the Spanish Bartolomé de las Casas Prize. In 2010 Davi visited Germany as part of the Amazonas Opera.
In 2019 he and his organization Hutukara Associação Yanomami received the Right Livelihood Award (alternative Nobel Prize) for the first time "for their courageous determination to protect the forests and biodiversity of the Amazon as well as the land and culture of its indigenous people."
Publications
- Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert: La chute du ciel. Paroles d'un chaman yanomami. Plon ( Terre humaine ), Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-259-21068-3 (also in English: The Falling Sky. Words of a Yanomami Shaman. The Belknap Press 2013, ISBN 978-0-674-72468-6 )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.survivalinternational.de/indigene/yanomami/
- ↑ http://www.proyanomami.org.br/
- ↑ Winners of the Right Livelihood Award 2019 announced. In: rightlivelihoodaward.org. The Right Livelihood Foundation, September 25, 2019, accessed September 25, 2019 .
- ^ Glenn H. Shepard Jr .: The Voice of the Shaman. In: The New York Review of Books , November 2014 edition. Review. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kopenawa Yanomami, Davi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kopenawa, Davi; Kobenawä Yanomamö, Davi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian shaman and leader of the Yanomami indigenous people |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roraima , Brazil |