Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The river has always fed the people.
For the communities of the Tapajós, fish is not simply a source of food, it is part of a living culture, a relationship carried through generations. It is what the forest and the waters have always offered.
In this moment from Katô: Dreams of Dark Earth, Juarez Saw Munduruku and Alessandra Korap speak about a painful reality: even as illegal mining poisons the rivers with mercury, Indigenous communities cannot simply stop eating fish. Fish is what is available. Fish is tradition. Fish is life.
While those responsible for contamination profit from destruction, the people who have protected these territories for generations are left to carry the consequences in their bodies, their waters, and their future.
Their words are also a call , a call for the state to regulate, to protect the rivers, and to defend the communities whose lives depend on them.
The protection of the forest is inseparable from the protection of the people who belong to it.
Watch the film and listen to the voices of those on the frontlines.
Link in bio theeternalsong.org/Kato
#Katô #DreamsOfDarkEarth #Tapajós #AlessandraKorap #IndigenousVoices #ProtectTheAmazon #IllegalMining #WaterIsLife #IndigenousResistance #TES
The river has always fed the people.
For the communities of the Tapajós, fish is not simply a source of food, it is part of a living culture, a relationship carried through generations. It is what the forest and the waters have always offered.
In this moment from Katô: Dreams of Dark Earth, Juarez Saw Munduruku and Alessandra Korap speak about a painful reality: even as illegal mining poisons the rivers with mercury, Indigenous communities cannot simply stop eating fish. Fish is what is available. Fish is tradition. Fish is life.
While those responsible for contamination profit from destruction, the people who have protected these territories for generations are left to carry the consequences in their bodies, their waters, and their future.
Their words are also a call , a call for the state to regulate, to protect the rivers, and to defend the communities whose lives depend on them.
The protection of the forest is inseparable from the protection of the people who belong to it.
Watch the film and listen to the voices of those on the frontlines.
Link in bio theeternalsong.org/Kato
#Katô #DreamsOfDarkEarth #Tapajós #AlessandraKorap #IndigenousVoices #ProtectTheAmazon #IllegalMining #WaterIsLife #IndigenousResistance #TES
