Colombia actor Antonio Bolívar and member of the Huitoto indigenous peoples has died at age 72 from coronavirus. Bolívar is best known for his role in Embrace of the Serpent.
Jimmy Weiskopf examines the importance of mambe in indigenous cosmogeny in generating dreams both when asleep and awake.
Adopted from Colombia as a child, Santiago Jordaan returned to his tribal home in the Amazon to learn Huitoto traditions and share the experience with his fellow Dutch citizens.
Fernando Urbina has dedicated 40-years of research to Colombia’s ancient rock art. His discovery of petroglyphs in remote territories show the first contact between conquistadores and Amazonian tribes.
The Elders of the Huitoto are commemorating 30-years of the Colombian government’s recognition of their ancestral territory.