Indigenous Peoples Organizations

The Ashaninka do Rio Amônia Association – Apiwtxa (a term that means union) was created in 1991 as a strategy to strengthen our community. It works as an operational arm of the community so that we can manage our projects and...

Our vision is to be an autonomous region with a sustainable economy, maintaining the shape and worldview of the Embera and Wounaan people in balance with mother earth and biodiversity.

Our mission is to be a leading organization in the unity, cohesion and defense of the territories, lands and natural resources of the Indigenous Peoples of Panama.

Founded in 1987, FOIRN represents 23 indigenous peoples from the Rio Negro, in an area that encompasses the municipalities of Barcelos, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro and São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in Amazonas.

We Mẽbêngôkre (or Kayapó) communities created, in 2001, the Raoni Institute to defend the interests of our people. IR is a non-profit, non-partisan Civil Society Organization of Public Interest located in the city of Peixoto...