Raoni Metuktire

Raoni Metuktire
Raoni in 2023
Metuktire, Kayapo people leader
Personal details
Born1932 (age 92–93)
Kapot Indigenous Territory, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Known forResistance to the Amazon Rainforest industrialization and deforestation
NicknameRaoni

Raoni Metuktire (born in 1932), also known as Chief Raoni or Ropni, is an Indigenous Brazilian leader and environmentalist. He is a chief of the Kayapo people, a Brazilian Indigenous group from the plain lands of the Mato Grosso and Pará in Brazil, south of the Amazon River and along Xingu River and its tributaries. He is internationally famous as a living symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest and indigenous culture.

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