A People Who Resist Collectively: The Gathering of the Wai Wai

Wai Wai Indigenous people and the ACT-Brasil team | Photo: Ricardo Rey Londoño / ACT-Brasil Archive

The Wai Wai are an Indigenous people who live across portions of the Guianas (Guyana and Suriname) and northern Brazil, especially in the south of Brazil’s Roraima state. Informal records link their name, which derives from the Karib language family, to the armadillo. The armadillo may be perceived as emblematic of the Wai Wai identity…

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