The G9: Indigenous Leadership Uniting Nine Nations for the Amazon’s Future

The G9: Indigenous Leadership Uniting Nine Nations for the Amazon’s Future

The room hums not with one language but with many. Around a table sit leaders representing the great Indigenous nations of the Amazon Basin. One wears a headdress of brilliant macaw feathers from Brazil; another, the intricate seed beadwork of the Colombian Andean foothills. Geometric lines of black jenipapo paint (a black dye made from an Amazonian fruit) trace the jawline of a leader from Peru, while the subtle, earthy tones of woven cotton ad…