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Azimuth World Foundation Supporting Indigenous self-determination through grassroots partnerships, strategic advocacy, and following Indigenous voices & priorities.

We stand in partnership with Indigenous communities, supporting their self-determination through funding initiatives they design and lead. We complement this direct support with strategic advocacy and build lasting networks that honor and amplify Indigenous voices, wisdom, and priorities. Our approach grows from recognizing the profound interconnections between environmental, social, humanitarian

and cultural justice, guided by Indigenous ways of knowing that have sustained life for millennia. We move forward with humility, learning and unlearning as we support community-led transformation. Azimuth World Foundation was established by Terry Rockstad and Mariana Marques with a profound vision: that all life on Earth exists in an intricate web of relationships. This understanding drives their commitment to advancing human rights through three essential pillars: Health & Healing, Water Access, Environment & Territories. At the intersection of these pillars lies a transformative approach that recognizes the deep connections between social, humanitarian, and environmental challenges. This perspective reflects the wisdom that Indigenous Peoples have long embodied – an understanding that we are not separate from nature, but are nature itself, inextricably woven into the fabric of all life.

06/01/2026

𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐊𝐀 𝐃𝐀𝐘
On this day, we celebrate Kenya's attainment of self-governance ,
a Historic milestone that empowered our nation to determine its own future and shape its destiny.
Christine Kandie Lebelit Jamii Asilia Centre PARAN_Kenya Siemenpuu Minority Rights Group Agroecology Fund Global Greengrants Fund Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples ESCR-Net Azimuth World Foundation Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW) International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)

05/25/2026
05/19/2026

New Connecting the Dots with BrisaFlow. A conversation with the Mapuche rapper, singer, and producer about ancestry, exile, and the sonic territories where Indigenous memory refuses to be silenced.

We spoke with Brisa during her visit to Portugal, where she participated in FÓLIO - Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos and where she completed an artist residency organized by the Terra Batida platform (Parasita Associação), which has been inviting Brazilian Indigenous artists to explore the politics of memory and erasure that permeate the collections held in museums and archives across Portugal.
🟡 Full interview - video, podcast, written versions, available in English and Portuguese: https://azimuthworldfoundation.org/stories/brisaflow/

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Novo Connecting the Dots com BrisaFlow. Uma conversa com a rapper, cantora e produtora Mapuche sobre ancestralidade, exílio e os territórios sonoros onde a memória indígena rejeita ser silenciada.

Falámos com Brisa durante a sua passagem por Portugal, onde participou no FÓLIO - Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos, e onde realizou uma residência artística promovida pela plataforma Terra Batida (Parasita Associação), que tem convidado artistas indígenas brasileiros a explorar as políticas de memória e apagamento que atravessam os acervos mantidos em museus e arquivos em Portugal.
🟡 Entrevista completa - versões vídeo, podcast e escrita, disponíveis em inglês e português: https://azimuthworldfoundation.org/pt-pt/historias/brisaflow/

This month, in the Kokama community of São Salvador, deep in the Upper Solimões region of the Brazilian Amazon, the new ...
05/14/2026

This month, in the Kokama community of São Salvador, deep in the Upper Solimões region of the Brazilian Amazon, the new music classes of the Olho d'Água Y Kurupira project began, held in a room with a name in the community's language: Sala de Música KATÍ PURA YARA, "Music Room of Living with Joy."

We are proud to support this project for a second year led by our partners at Associação A.M.O.R. / OIKOSAI. Free workshops in guitar, voice, Indigenous percussion, keyboard, recorder, and cavaquinho are now coming to even more communities, including São Salvador, Terra Nova, São Gabriel, and São José.

Among the team of "Professores-Árvores" ("Tree Teachers") guiding the students this year is Jerlison Januário Anaquiri, who was a student in last year's classes and now teaches guitar and keyboard himself. He joins coordinator Rômulo de Souza Elias Omágua Kambeba, Henry Francisco Pinto Elias Omágua Kambeba, and Nilda Comapa Pinto. Knowledge passing from one generation to the next, with what the team calls "patience and persistence."

For 15 years, Professor Suzane Lima Costa and her team at the project Letters from Indigenous Peoples to Brazil have bee...
05/12/2026

For 15 years, Professor Suzane Lima Costa and her team at the project Letters from Indigenous Peoples to Brazil have been rescuing Indigenous voices from inside colonial archives — voices that those archives, by their very design, were built to silence.

The project's online collection now holds over 1,300 documents. Some date back to the 17th century, signed by Indigenous leaders writing directly to kings, queens, and prime ministers. Most of us were never taught that Indigenous political participation, resistance, and demands for rights go back this far.

More recent letters, drafted collectively in assembly, carry another kind of force: a collective intimacy that reshapes what a letter can even be.

Read the full interview on our website. Available in English and Portuguese: https://azimuthworldfoundation.org/stories/connecting-the-dots-with-suzane-lima-costa-letters-from-indigenous-peoples-to-brazil-project/

📸 Letter from Antonio Paraupaba to Johan de Witt (October 30, 1654) - available at: https://cartasindigenasaobrasil.com.br

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PT: Há 15 anos que a Professora Suzane Lima Costa e a sua equipa no projeto Cartas Indígenas ao Brasil têm vindo a resgatar vozes indígenas dos arquivos coloniais — vozes que esses mesmos arquivos, pela sua própria construção, foram feitos para silenciar.

O acervo online do projeto conta hoje com mais de 1300 documentos. Alguns recuam ao século XVII, assinados por lideranças indígenas que se dirigiam diretamente a reis, rainhas e primeiros-ministros. A maioria de nós nunca aprendeu que a participação política indígena, a resistência e a luta por direitos vêm de tão longe.

Já as cartas mais recentes, redigidas coletivamente em assembleia, carregam outra força: um "nós" no lugar de um "eu" — uma intimidade coletiva que redefine o que uma carta pode ser.

Lê a entrevista completa no nosso website. Disponível em português e inglês: https://azimuthworldfoundation.org/pt-pt/historias/connecting-the-dots-com-suzane-lima-costa-projeto-cartas-indigenas-ao-brasil/

📸 �Carta de Antonio Paraupaba para Johan de Witt (30 de outubro de 1654) - disponível em: https://cartasindigenasaobrasil.com.br

05/11/2026
01/13/2026

EN: During the tenth edition of FÓLIO - Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos we had the privilege of speaking with artist Denilson Baniwa. Winner of the 2019 P**A award and one of the curators of the Brazilian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Denilson’s work moves in the spaces between technology and ancestry, protest and poetry, the Rio Negro and the world.

Denilson’s first solo exhibition in Lisbon - “Contra-Feitiço" (Counter-Spell) - is on display at Galeria Quadrum until February 15, 2026. Curated by Ritó Natálio and the Terra Batida platform, it includes new works created during his stay in Portugal.

Full interview - watch, listen or read at https://azimuthworldfoundation.org/stories/DenilsonBaniwa/

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PT: Durante a décima edição do FÓLIO - Festival Literário Internacional de Óbidos tivemos o privilégio de conversar com o artista Denilson Baniwa. Vencedor do prémio P**A 2019 e um dos curadores do Pavilhão do Brasil na Bienal de Veneza de 2024,o seu seu trabalho move-se entre a tecnologia e a ancestralidade, o protesto e a poesia, entre o Rio Negro e o mundo.

A primeira exposição individual de Denilson Baniwa em Lisboa - “Contra-Feitiço" - está patente na Galeria Quadrum até 15 de fevereiro de 2026. Uma exposição onde apresenta novos trabalhos criados durante a sua estadia em Portugal, numa curadoria de Ritó Natálio e da plataforma Terra Batida.

Entrevista completa para ver, ouvir ou ler em https://azimuthworldfoundation.org/pt-pt/historias/DenilsonBaniwa

Parasita Associação

Full article here: https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1402&context=tipiti
01/06/2026

Full article here: https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1402&context=tipiti

📢 Novo artigo publicado | Doutorando do CRIA

Hanmin Kin, doutorando do CRIA, acaba de publicar um novo artigo na revista Tipití.

Com base em investigação etnográfica na Amazónia Ocidental brasileira, o artigo analisa as formas de resistência do povo indígena Karipuna diante das pressões sobre o seu território. Por meio da relação entre pessoas, espíritos da floresta e o território, o trabalho propõe uma reflexão inovadora sobre políticas indígenas, cosmopolítica e modos alternativos de “fazer mundo”.

👉 Convidamos todos/as a ler o artigo completo, disponível em acesso aberto.
🔗 Link nos comentários ou na bio.

Uma leitura relevante para quem se interessa por antropologia, povos indígenas, a Amazónia e pelos debates contemporâneos sobre território e resistência.

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