In Boa Vista, Indigenous Brazilians retake their identity through education

Mongabay
Jun 29, 2021, 3:20 pm279 pts
BOA VISTA, Brazil — When she was 24, Ariene dos Santos Lima adopted the Indigenous name Susui. In her ancestral Wapichana language, it means “flower” — the ornament that Ariene Susui would go on to identify with in her many roles: as a journalist, a defender of Indigenous rights in social movements, and…

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