Intertribal Peace and Sustainability in the Amazon

We are building an intertribal peace community in the Amazon along the Tiputini River. This project is the result of 4 years of prayers and community visioning.

In 2022, we held our first ceremony praying for shared land and sowing the seed of our vision for land and water protection.

In 2023, we met with the three tribes of the region (the Kichwa, the Waorani, and the Shuar) and shared our vision to create a peace center for the shared recultivation of language, culture, and protection of the natural environment.

In 2024, we gathered together the three tribes for the first time in recorded history. The tribes shared songs, dances, and ceremonies. We visioned and prayed together for a future in which the land is protected, the water returns to her full health, and indigenous people have all that they need to preserve, protect, and flourish in their cultural lifeways.

We also bought 4 hectares of land along the Tiputini River and built a small structure inspired by traditional and sustainable building practices.

Now the surrounding land next to us is up for sale and you can help us ensure that it is protected from mining and deforestation. If we purchase these remaining 40 acres we will be completely protected at our perimeter by 3 tribal entities and a land conservation nonprofit. It is important we purchase this land as soon as possible to ensure that it does not go to extractive industries.

You can help us in building this important dream for a decolonized future, one in which we heal the intertribal wounds of the past, and in which we come together to protect the sacred, Mother Earth.

UPDATE 1/29/25

Our intertribal peace center is having real impact in the community and in the jungle.

A few weeks ago a regional conflict arose between tribes around oil and sale of ancestral lands. The conflict was not with our collaborators but our collaborators went to the site of the disagreement to share our message.

A leader from our group said "This is not who we are anymore. We used to kill each other but now we know that we are of one forest. We are the same water, the same air."

A few days later the conflict de-escalated and the city even issued an official Peace Agreement between the parties involved.

Your support for this initiative is helping to support mother earth, first peoples, peace building and the development of futurist community development strategies.

Be part of the solution and join us in the collective effort remember that "we are of one water, one air". We breath together, we live together, we love together and we build peace together.

UPDATE 2/7/25

We just wrapped an incredible week of filming about our process and are super thrilled about how everything went!

Check out our new instagram page dedicated specifically to the film initiative associated with our project for updates and beautiful visuals that tell the story of our process! https://www.instagram.com/jaguarsongfilm/

We are collaborating with the incredible filmmaker AnAkA and Activ8 studios to create a short video about our process (scheduled to screen to the community in the Amazon on indigenous people's day at the Archaeological Museum in Coca (MACCO) and then at the Stellenbosch Triennale in South Africa!

Mayara Coelho also supported us in teaching citizen strooytelling through cell phones so that the community themselves had agency in drafting a script, story, filming and directing their own film as well! We are excited to share all these stories at COP das Baisadas (the indigenous COP happening in the outskirts of the United Nations Climate Convening in Belem Brazil, this November!)