Sônia Guajajara

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Sônia Bone Guajajara (2015 in Brasília).

Sônia Bone de Souza Silva Santos , known as Sônia Guajajara (born March 6, 1974 in the Araribóia Protected Area , Maranhão ), is an indigenous Brazilian environmental activist , human rights activist , tribal leader of the Guajajaras and politician. She was a candidate for the office of Vice-President of the candidate Guilherme Boulos in the presidential election in Brazil 2018 , both of which ran for the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade .

Life

Sônia Guajajara is, along with others like the killed Kaziken Jorginho Guajajara (2018) and the also murdered environmental activist Paulo Paulino Guajajara (2019), a leader of the indigenous people of the Guajajára , who mainly live in the Brazilian state of Maranhão . With around 20,000 people, they are one of the largest indigenous groups in Brazil.

At the age of 15 she left Maranhão for the first time to attend a secondary school in an agricultural boarding school in Minas Gerais with the support of the Fundação Nacional do Índio (FUNAI) . She then obtained a degree in literature, which was followed by postgraduate studies in special education at the Universidade Estadual do Maranhão .

She is the coordinator of the APIB, Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (about: Voice of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil).

She appeared in public as an activist several times. In 2010 she presented the alternative “Golden Chainsaw Prize” (Portuguese Prêmio Motosserra de Ouro ) to Senator and former Agriculture Minister Kátia Abreu , she organized protests such as the intrusion of 300 indigenous peoples into the plenary hall of the 2013 National Congress, and in July 2013 it was won with other indigenous leaders a meeting with the then President Dilma Rousseff . She appeared with Alicia Keys at Rock in Rio 2017 .

In 2015 she was awarded the Ordem do Mérito Cultural (OMC) of the Ministry of Culture.

On the occasion of the UN Climate Change Conference 2019 , Guajajara appeared in front of the press together with Greta Thunberg and Javier Bardem .

Web links

Commons : Sônia Guajajara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zezé Weiss: Sonia Bone Guajajara. In: Xapuri Socioambiental. November 17, 2015, Retrieved November 7, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese, ISSN  2359-053X ).
  2. ↑ Coordenadora da APIB, indígena Sonia Guajajara é cotada como vice de Boulos. In: racismoambiental.net.br. Combate Racismo Ambiental, February 24, 2018, accessed November 7, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Hommage aux militantes féministes - Sônia Guajajara - Brésil. In: www.aqoci.qc.ca. Association québécoise des organismes de coopération internationale (AQOCI), accessed on November 6, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Alicia Keys recebe líder indígena no RiR e público vibra com "Fora, Temer". In: musica.uol.com.br. UOL, September 17, 2017, accessed November 6, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Ministério da Cultura - Conheça os agraciados com a OMC em 2015 - Notícias. (No longer available online.) In: gov.br. web.archive.org, November 6, 2015, archived from the original on September 23, 2018 ; accessed on November 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ https://www.stern.de/news/kurz-vor-weltklimagipfel-klimamarsch-in-madrid-mit-greta-thunberg-und-javier-bardem-9036338.html
personal data
SURNAME Guajajara, Sônia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Santos, Sônia Bone de Souza Silva (full name); Guajajara, Sonia Bone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian activist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Araribóia Indigenous Reserve , Maranhão