Glass images: Yanomami inflections in the campaign “Fora garimpo, Fora Covid!”

Abstract

This text focuses on the campaign “Fora Garimpo, Fora Covid”, in which leaders of the Yanomami and Ye'kwana peoples, with their partners, sought to make visible in the public debate the harmful effects of the garimpo (illegal mining) in their Indigenous Land, which brought the Covid and violence to the lives of communities. Along with the denouncements, the campaign sought support from national and international civil society in its claims to the Brazilian State for the observance of its constitutional rights during the pandemic. Having the campaign for the demarcation of the Indigenous Land in the 1980s and 90s as a counterpoint, I seek to address the inflections brought about by digital communication technologies, in which the glass images of cell phones constitute a new front to be heard by the Whites, presenting continuities and singularities in relation to the paper skins themed by Davi Kopenawa.