For the Krenak indigenous people who live along the Rio Doce in southeastern Brazil, the waterway was their community's lifeblood, a source of food and spiritual presence, where children were baptized and learned to swim.
RIO DE JANEIRO - For the Krenak indigenous people who live along the Rio Doce in southeastern Brazil, the waterway was their community’s lifeblood, a source of food and spiritual presence, where children were baptized and learned to swim.
Five years later, the tribe says survival remains a struggle, despite living hundreds of kilometers downstream from the burst dam, and mourn a revered river they have long known as “Uatu”: a sacred, omnipresent relative. The leaders from both tribes, who spoke to Reuters in a joint video phone interview arranged by a videographer working with the claimants, said they no longer hunt for medicinal herbs on the river’s banks, no longer fish or swim in its waters.
But for the Guarani, whose children once fished at night with harpoons, a fish supper now means a two and a half hour drive to a trusted fish market. Although the Guarani live on the separate Piraquê-Açu river, the chief says its waters are also tainted by disaster, because he says the tailings waste washed back up other rivers after pouring into the ocean.
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