7,000 square miles of Brazil’s endangered rainforest are home to the remaining 183 Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau (once numbering in the thousands).Threatened by farmers, loggers, and, most egregiously, by the militant right-wing policies of President Jair Bolsonaro (who actively encourages non-Indigenous people to seize their land), the tribe’s charismatic 20-year-old leader strategizes against the violent incursions, death threats, and environmental destruction that have become the norm.
