What are the Enawene Nawe?

The Enawene Nawe are a Tribe are a small Amazonian tribe located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. The tribe was first contacted in 1974 at a population counting 97 people. At the present moment the tribe has around 500 members. The Enawene Nawe live in small villages and they have rituals and traditions revolving around fish as they do not eat red meat. The Land that the Enawene Nawe live in is delicate due to the spiritual and economic needs that they pull from it. The rituals and the biodiversity of the land is being threatened by multiple threats “such as deforestation and invasive practices, including intensive mining and logging, extensive livestock activity, water pollution, degradation of headwaters, unregulated processes of urban settlement, construction of roads, waterways and dams, drainage and diversion of rivers, burning of forests and illegal fishing and trade in wildlife.” (Yaokwa, the Enawene Nawe people's ritual, n.d.). The large amount of dams being built can pollute the water the tribe fish in as well as stop the fish migration routes which the tribe heavily depend on. The aim of the report is to state a clear opinion that “The Enawene Nawe face many threats regarding their existence as their fishing waters are being polluted and their rituals disrupted.”