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Raoni Metuktire

Raoni Metuktire
  • Name: Raoni Metuktire
  • Birthday: 1932-01-01
  • Place of birth: Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil
  • Popularity: 0.0586
Biography: 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 Kayapó 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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Title Release date
The Chief's Call: Inheritance, Land, and Future   as  Self 2024-04-23
Raoni, Uma Amizade Improvável   as  Self 2023-10-05
The Hills of Disorder   as  Self (archive footage) 2006-03-28
Raoni   as  Self 1978-02-15