STAND WITH THE GUARDIANS OF THE FOREST
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Sãkatani Alliance, by Silvae:
This initiative aims to reclaim and restore a 350-hectare area in the Amazon, Acre, for the Huni Kuin Indigenous people. The land is under imminent threat from livestock expansion and further deforestation.
The Location: Jordão, Brazilian Amazon. By acquiring it and transferring ownership to a trusted local Indigenous-led NGO, we will enable:
Food sovereignty
biodiversity restoration
cultural preservation
and climate resilience
All within a framework of local autonomy and regenerative practice.Together with joint signatures and agreement from the Jordãos Indigenous leaders of 8 villages (Ni Yuxibu, Lago Lindo, Arco Iris, Nova União,Rosa Branca, Terra Viva, Flor da Mata and Mãe Bena) and Silvae/Sãkatani Alliance; we want to co-create a Huni Kuin cultural institute and a 100% self-sufficient agroforestry system that strengthens food security, local livelihoods, and a community-led economy.
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The initiative is facilitated by Silvae, a grassrot organisation, where the first pilot project is Sãkatani Alliance; created by demand from long-term dialogue between Huni Kuin communities and S3C. We restore Indigenous land rights, resilience and stewardship along the Rio Tarauacá, Brazil.
Silvae participates as bridge builders with our project Sãkatani Alliance and the first nations and local communities, valuing the importance of preserving one of the most crucial places, for our planets vital balance; the rainforest.
Through agroforestry work we aid nature maintaining biodiversity, store carbon, learn how to live on and with the land, in harmony, as well as significantly contributing to climate change mitigation.
The Amazon is one of the largest biodiverse current territories, holding more than 10% of the known species on earth, home to more than 80.000 plants. It has been cultivated through centuries since the first people immigrated from Siberia, some 13.000-17.000 thousand years ago. The Brazilian side, as well as the rest of the Amazon are under restoration and current attacs, after relentless threats of exploitation, christianisation, colonisation and illegal exportation of minerals and resources.
The HuniKuin people comprise approximately 16,000 individuals residing across 12 indigenous territories in the state of Acre, Brazil, Western Amazonia, along the Tarauacá, Jordão, Breu, Muru, Envira, Humaitá rivers. Their presence also extends into Peru, where they inhabit about 30 villages located near the Curanja and upper Purus rivers.
The true people, or the people from the smoke, as Huni Kuin means, represents a people of enormous resilience and are currently having a wave of rebirth of their heritage, an impressive testimony to witness. After almost extinction through slavery, colonisation and exploitation, through the rubber and mining industries, as well as disease impact, coming from outsiders; Their remarkable strength to preserve their culture, language, was of living and their ancestral practices makes one of the greatest examples of what unity brings into a community.
WHY THE AMAZON
Join the movement by strengthening the Huni Kuin vision, culture and building futures inside the jungle.
Why This Land Matters
The current Indigenous territory is insufficient for the needs of the growing population. Many families lack the space to build their homes, and food insecurity is increasing due to limited arable land and environmental degradation. Acquiring this land would directly address these urgent needs. It would provide:
• Space for new homes and family gardens by freeing up existing overcrowded land as food production shifts to new site • Areas to grow staple foods and regenerate degraded soil
• Forest to replant native species for biodiversity and medicine
• A foundation for economic autonomy through crops like cacao, cashew, and açaí
• Aquaculture potential in existing ponds, with fish waste used as organic fertilizer for forest regeneration This is not only a conservation project, it is a food sovereignty project.
Huni Kuins traditional practices contribute to environmental sustainability and by supporting their initiatives, they can gain a stronger political voice in discussions about land use and environmental policies. Representation matters and as stated in the Indigenous Manifest:
“We demand the right to live well in our own lands, not as symbols of a disappearing world but as creators of a future rooted in balance. For that, we need space, not only to survive, but to thrive.”
The Vision
At the request of Huni Kuin leadership, this initiative supports their vision to reclaim and regenerate ancestral lands, ensure food sovereignty and build a resilient local economy rooted in traditional knowledge and ecological restoration. Together we aim to create a replicable model of biocultural regeneration guided by Indigenous priorities.
Silvae supports Indigenous led projects in agroforestry, food sovereignty, cultural preservation and regenerative livelihoods so that communities can thrive on their own terms, today and for future generations. We want the original people who belong to the land, in charge.
Through long term intersectional dialogue and partnerships with various Amazonian communities, our work focuses on reclaiming land, restoring ecosystems and co-create a self-sufficient grassroots economies.
Where the forest and people rise together.
Guardiões de um dos territórios de maior biodiversidade do planeta, os povos Huni Kuin vivem entre a fronteira do Peru e o Brasil e contam com uma população de mais de 16 mil habitantes espalhadas pelo coração da Floresta Amazônica. Huni Kuin significa homens verdadeiros.
Guardians of one of the most biodiversity territories on the planet, the Huni Kuin live between the border of Peru and Brazil and have a population of more than 16,000 thousand inhabitants scattered throughout the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Huni kuin means: The True People.
Hatũni ewapa inũ yuinaka xarabu tsumatã yauxi kirãnimaki, Huni kuĩburã habia maewã rabe namakis hiweabuki: “Peru inũ Brasil” anurã, hati nũ hiweabũrã ma itã sĩti pixke nũ hayaki nuku nabu bestirã, hã maewa kenakĩ “Amazônika” aniburã. Nukũkena kayarã habia Huni kuĩki.
SOON Available experiences
Sãkatani Alliance welcomes you to 23 days of musical study, with the “Hampaya” (Txana) diet at the Ni Yuxibu village, in the Jordão area of The Brazilian Amazon.
What exactly is the Hampaya diet?
The cornerstones of indigenous cultures lies the music and the gathering around instruments, singing and using their voice as channels for joy, healing and spiritual work.
This diet is something that each musician undertakes, as a 9 times repetitive procedure, where the Paje or Maje (medicine person) applies a chili with the beak of a bird called Txana. It’s black and yellow and it is known in the jungle as the imitator. It can make any sound and camouflages itself, adapting itself in any desirable communication. And this is what the Txanas wants as well, to be able to speak and sing in their authenticity, to unlock their own potential.
This diet is widely known in the indigenous communities and practiced by thousands of visitors each year, and represents ancestral tradition, leaded by a certified expert.
Includes:
-Learning drum patterns and rhythms
-Intro to their holy chants, Huni Meka.
-Hampayaa, Txana, the communication diet
-Kampum /Kambo forest vaccine
-Jenipapo / Nane, the sacred protection paint
-Fetios of medicinal plants
-Medicinal baths / walks/ study and forest walks to sacred place in the jungle
-Circle with the medicine of hapeé
-Work with the medicine if Sanaa and Bawe.
-Storytime and traditional songs around the fire
-Availability for personal healing sessions as well as music lessons
-Presentations of the local pajes /majes (medicine people) as well as the Txana (musicians)
-Holistic and ancestral living in the middle of the Amazonia jungle
Full program will be sent to your email after registration.
Option of 2 weeks stay or add on for a full 23 days.
Sãkatani Alliance welcomes you to a full month of plant medicine and traditional indigenous Huni Kuin knowledge. This month is all about deepening your spiritual practice with what they know as “dietas”.
Includes:
-Hampayaa, Txana and communication diet
-Kampum /Kambo forest vaccine
-Hapeé diet and production (Medicinal practice from the Indigenous tribes.)
-Jenipapo / Nane, the sacred protection paint
-Fetios
-Medicinal baths / walks/ study and forest walks to sacred place in the jungle
-Learning about incense and the practice of smudging
-Production of Bawe and Sananga, both eye drop medicine. Included walk in the jungle to find plants.
-Storytime and traditional songs around the fire
-Availability for personal healing sessions as well as music lessons
-Presentations of the local pajes /majes (medicine people) as well as the Txana (musicians)
-Holistic and ancestral living in the middle of the Amazonia jungle
Details:
We will offer the Hampaya diet (known as the discipline of musical talent, as well as the activator for communication and throat chakra.)
Production of the medicine Hapeé, a strong emotional regulator and opener for spiritual practice. You will be closely followed by your mentor during this week of learning, where both the different types of sopros (aplication) will be taught, as well as basic ethics around this plant medicine.
Kampum (the Kambo forest vaccine)
Jenipapo (Nane, a fruit that makes black tint applied on your body as a initial rite to the spirit world, functioning both as protection as well as it’s anti fungal and anti inflammatory benefits. During this month we will get to know the Nane, as this is painted on us with their sacred geometrical shapes, called Kenés. (The Kenés guides us in connection to spirit world as well, offering chants and spirit animals to us, as well as being ornamented on textiles and clothing.)
Sãkatani Alliance welcomes you to a full month of agricultural studies, in our permaculture based immersion in the Brazilian Amazon.
This immersion is very special to us, as it means that we have reached our goal of buying back the 300 hectar deforestation farm land, on the other side of the Huni Kuin territories in Jordão area of the Brazilian jungle.
Now the work starts of preparing the soil for plants and building up the canopy as it once was, using sintropics and permaculture techniques to manage this. We will also start the construction of different buildings that are needed, like fermentation center for the cacao cultivation, shed tools and other necessities like kitchen and compost toilets.
Includes:
-Authentic living with indigenous tribes, working together as a team to restore and cultivate barren land into functional living sustainable farm land.
-Permaculture and bio construction principles
-Introduction to cacao cultivation, compost and biodegradable materials for renewal energy
-Plant medicine and traditional ceremonies
-Possibilities for personal healing sessions as well as music lessons with professionals
-Getting practical knowledge in one of the most biodiverse environments on the planet together with its original protectors and guardians
About
our ALLIANCE
Discover a community and movement dedicated to Indigenous land rights and interests. Our mission is to bring people together, regardless of culture and background; with the same goal. Preserving and protecting the jungle.
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We can’t wait to hear from you!