Tag: upper Rio Negro

Coronavirus Brings Back Memories: Indigenous priest reflects on the global pandemic [excerpt]

Justino Sarmento Rezende, a Salesian priest of the Tuyuka indigenous people from the upper Rio Negro in Brazil, reflects on the coronavirus pandemic from the perspective of his…

Post date 14th April 2020
Post author By Glenn H. Shepard
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The Fish Trap: Winning poem featured by Sapiens.org for World Poetry Day

Notes from the Ethnoground

The fish trapThe fish trap is sun bleached dry halfburied in squeaking whitesand under an equatorialmoon that wants to walk across the blackmirror but instead is twiceswallowed by…

Post date 20th March 2020
Post author By Glenn H. Shepard
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