Below us lay Kayapo Indian country ... perhaps the richest and most powerful of around 240 indigenous tribes remaining in Brazil. Their ceremonies, their kinship systems, their Gê language ...
Brazilian environmental campaigner and tribal leader Raoni Metuktire is pitting himself against the government to stop plans ...
Brazil's environmental protection agency IBAMA ... Raoni, the leader of the Kayapo people, rose to fame in the 1980s campaigning against deforestation with English singer Sting.