Kraho

This project is the outcome of the time I spent in a indigenous village (aldeia) in March 2016. The Brazilian ethnic group denominated Kraho live in the north east of Tocantins State, inner parts of Brazil. The Kraho had their first contact with ocidental civilizations around 200 years ago, since when they have been experiencing many sort of threats, environmental changes and external cultural influences. There are many rituals and celebrations in the Kraho culture. Some of them can be brief and related to personal circumstances like, first child birth or the end of a period of convalescence, and others can be of collective initiative characteristic like those related to the harvesting or change of seasons. Although the Kraho nowadays have friendly relations with the urbane, or how they call them white-man (homem branco), and somehow depend on the city facilities like food and medical support, since their land has no more natural resources, there is a current attempt, from inside their people, to resume and preserve their culture and custom. These pictures are my pledge, to the people who received me as a member of the family, to help keep their culture alive.