16th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
A Tapayuna man, Mato Grosso- Brazil

Nokere holds a cell phone with an image of a relative he claims to have been left behind. He believes he is still alive, even though it happened almost 50 years ago when they suffered a genocide while fighting against agricultural expansion throughout their ancestral territory.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 09.2018
Date Uploaded: 11.2018
Photo Location: São José do Xingu, Brazil
Camera: NIKON D750
Copyright: © Pedro Cattony