Spiritual leader of the Huni Kuin people · Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
Mapu
Huni Kuin
“I have no formal education: my learning comes from the forest.”
VEJA, First Person, 5 August 2023
Gabriel Novis + Famke
He left the forest in 2012 with what he knew. Today he carries the forest’s message to the Grammys, to Central Park and to the Parliament of the World’s Religions — and carries the world back to 42 families in Acre.
The movement
Five fronts, one single work
11 ha + 2.450 ha
Territory and autonomy
Demarcated land belongs to the State. Buying land is one way of securing the future.
42
Urban shelter
Indigenous families arriving in the city with no network find housing, food and culture.
12
Language and culture
Hãtxa Kuî, kene, prayers and chants recorded and translated so they are not lost.
11.000
Forest and climate
Reforestation, warnings about logging across the border, and about what nature is saying.
2024
Music as diplomacy
Song opens doors that speeches do not — and carries the Indigenous agenda onto global stages.
Listen
The music is prayer
Twelve tracks recorded in Hãtxa Kuî, the language of the Huni Kuin people, on the album Hiri Shubu Keneya Bari Bay. The lyrics are here in Hãtxa Kuî, Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Music video
Habe Tabi Kayawei
The territory
Centro Huwã Karu Yuxibu
Founded in August 2015 by Mapu Huni Kuin and Mirna Rosário, on 11 hectares purchased at km 36 of the Transacreana road, in rural Rio Branco.
- 42 families sheltered at the Centre
- 11 ha of own land, bought with money earned from music and television
- 2.450 ha of preserved reserve, acquired in 2023
- 11.000 seedlings planted in 2024
Upcoming gatherings
Calendar
21 August 2026
Traditional Huni Kuin ceremony
22 August 2026
Traditional Huni Kuin ceremony
Archive
Sixty videos across thirty channels. Five hundred and forty-nine posts. One single place.
His work was scattered across third-party channels, profiles and partner portals. This archive brings together everything that could be located, with source, authorship and original link.