Indigenous communities in Brazil reinvent grief in the time of COVID

Mongabay
Jul 12, 2021, 7:16 am241 pts
“The body is here. We’re going to die!” That’s what Watatakalu Yawalapiti heard over the phone from her relatives after the death of an uncle from COVID-19 in June 2020. His was one of the first deaths from the pandemic in Xingu Indigenous Park in the Amazonian state of Mato Grosso, Brazil’s oldest…

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