Today in Brazil we have the privilege of being countrymen and contemporaries of hundreds of indigenous peoples. Of witnessing through their eyes, their struggles and their cultures what is perhaps the greatest example of resistance that humanity has ever known. This resistance is materialized in art and crafts. Each basket, each bracelet, each painting carries this mark. Because they are so beautiful, they teach us that beauty, carefully woven by hand, is an agent that shapes and transforms society. If they are made today, it is because their knowledge continues to re-exist.

We, at Tucum, have decided to stand by them. To make their struggles our own, to reduce the gap between the wealth and power of the native peoples of this country and the way they are seen and recognized by society, still steeped in stereotypes and prejudices that perpetuate the historical oppression against their bodies and territories. Those who wear their art feel the strength they carry.

The future is now! To stay alive, we need the forest standing, and for that, its guardians need to stand with it. We continue to fight for the way of life of indigenous peoples to be respected, and for their rights and territories to be assured.

Tucum invites you to be part of this manifesto and to be an ally in the valorization of indigenous cultures, their arts and their struggle.