1956
Davi is born in Marakana.
1959
Epidemics devastate his neighborhood.
1967
He loses extra household in an epidemic launched by New Tribes Missionaries.
1976
Works as FUNAI interpreter as freeway bulldozes by means of Yanomami communities.
Nineteen Eighties
He marries Fátima and strikes to Watoriki. Meets members of NGO CCPY which is campaigning for Yanomami land rights.
1986
Helps arrange first meeting of Yanomami
1988
He’s awarded a UN World 500 award.
1989
Davi addresses Brazil’s congress, warns the gold rush is destroying the Yanomami and requires the popularity of their land rights. He meets President José Sarney and pushes for expulsion of goldminers, and participates in an illustration organized by the CIR (Indigenous Council of Roraima) towards the mining invasion of the Yanomami territory.
Survival Worldwide invitations Davi to just accept the Proper Livelihood Award in Stockholm. He leaves Brazil for the primary time. Additionally visits London and meet MPs. The worldwide marketing campaign for Yanomami land rights is launched by Davi, Survival and CCPY.
1991
He visits the USA for the primary time in a visit coordinated by Survival. Meets UN Secretary Basic Javier Perez de Cuellar and Senator Al Gore. Visits Onondaga reservation.
1992
Meets President Fernando Collor de Mello in ceremony to mark the demarcation of the Yanomami territory. Participates in UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Addresses the UN Basic Meeting in New York to launch the UN 12 months of Indigenous Peoples.
1993
Davi data video “Davi contra Golias” by CEDI, through which he describes the bloodbath of 16 Yanomami of Haximu neighborhood by goldminers.
1994
Davi and Claudia Andujar of CCPY go to the Group of American States in Washington which requires Brazilian authorities to analyze the Haximu bloodbath.
1999
Davi awarded the Ordem do Rio Branco by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in recognition of his work on behalf of the Yanomami folks.
On the invitation of Survival Worldwide, participates in Las Jornadas Indígenas in Gran Canaria, Spain. Speaks at public conferences and meets with city councillors. Consequently, numerous city halls assist tasks with the Yanomami.
Launches ebook Homicide within the Rainforest printed by the Latin America Bureau concerning the bloodbath of Yanomami by goldminers at Haximu in 1993. Survival organises launches in a number of cities within the UK.
2002
Davi and Toto Yanomami journey to the US to press for the return of blood samples taken from Yanomami communities with out their consent within the Sixties.
2003
Davi, Dario and Joseca Yanomami take part within the opening of the Fondation Cartier’s exhibition L’esprit de la forêt in in Paris through which numerous artists, together with Yanomami, discover the connection between the Yanomami and their forest dwelling.
2004
Along with different Yanomami regional leaders, Davi founds Hutukara Yanomami Affiliation (named after the traditional sky from which the earth was born) to widen and strengthen the Yanomami’s advocacy for his or her rights. He’s instrumental in convincing most areas from the Yanomami space to unite and work collectively.
2007
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launches his social agenda for Indigenous peoples. Davi is one in all a number of Indigenous leaders invited to fulfill the president to debate the federal government’s insurance policies on Indigenous peoples. He voices his considerations concerning the impacts of mining on Indigenous peoples. Davi and his son Dario go to Germany and meet with politicians and others.
2008
The jury of Spain’s Bartolomé de las Casas prize awards Davi an Honourable Point out for his ‘excellent management in defence of the Yanomami folks and different Indigenous peoples in Brazil’.
2009
Davi is invited to the UK by Survival Worldwide. He meets parliamentarians to transient them concerning the Yanomami scenario and the state of the Amazon. Meets President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva in Boa Vista, Roraima and is awarded the Order of Cultural Advantage by the Brazilian authorities which he receives from the President.
2010
Davi’s autobiography La Chute du Ciel – Paroles d’un Chaman Yanomami by Davi Kopenawa and anthropologist Bruce Albert printed in France.
Davi travels to Munich, Germany with a gaggle of Yanomami shamans for the opening of the opera ‘Amazonas Opera’ sponsored by the Goethe Institute for the tenth Biennale of Munich.
2011
Davi organizes the primary assembly of Yanomami shamans, held in Watoriki, which is made into a movie known as Xapiri.
2012
Davi travels to Geneva to take part within the tenth Worldwide Movie Pageant and Discussion board on Human Rights the place he launches the movie Indiens en Sursis concerning the Yanomami’s and Kayapo’s efforts to cease the destruction of their rainforests.
Hutukara releases aerial footage of uncontacted “Moxahatetea” Yanomami to mark the twentieth anniversary of the creation of the ‘Yanomami Park’ and to focus on the threats to them from miners.
The Municipal Chamber of Boa Vista (capital of Roraima state) awards Davi the Honra ao Mérito Rio Branco in recognition of companies to the Yanomami neighborhood of Roraima state as a spokesman for his folks.
2013
King Harald V of Norway visits the Yanomami neighborhood of Watoriki at Davi’s invitation.
Davi participates in convention organised by UFMG (Federal College of Minas Gerais) to speak concerning the Yanomami cosmos.
Harvard College Press publishes Davi’s autobiography The Falling Sky: Phrases of a Yanomami Shaman. New Scientist names it one on the perfect science books of 2013.
2014
The Brazilian authorities launch ‘Operation Korekore’ to fight unlawful gold-mining within the Yanomami territory.
Survival invitations Davi to San Francisco the place he launches The Falling Sky on the Presidio exhibition “Crown Jewels” and on the Emerald Pill.
Yanomami rejoice elimination of final ranchers from Ajarani area.
Hutukara, ISA and Venezuelan NGOs Horonami and Wataniba launch map of Yanomami communities.
Davi participates in FLIP (Paraty Literary Pageant).
Davi launches The Falling Sky in London at invitation of Survival. He and Mauricio Yekuana urge the worldwide inhabitants to “cease destroying the Earth’s lungs”.
Fiocruz researchers discover harmful ranges of mercury poisoning in Yanomami and Yekuana communities dwelling near unlawful gold mining operations within the Yanomami territory in Brazil.
2015
Yanomami blood samples collected in Sixties and 70s with out Yanomami consent and saved in numerous US analysis institutes are lastly returned to the Yanomami after an extended marketing campaign by Hutukara. The Yanomami carry out funerary rites for the blood of those that since died.
Hutukara publishes the primary “Guide of Conventional Treatments”, with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, ISA and IRD, in a Yanomami language.
Davi launches Portuguese version of his autobiography A Queda do Ceu
in São Paulo.
FUNAI closes its safety submit close to the uncontacted Moxihatetea neighborhood in Serra da Estrutura.
Davi and a gaggle of Yanomami attend opening of Claudia Andujar’s pictures pavilion within the Inhotim Institute, Minas Gerais.
2016
Davi and Hutukara maintain conferences with Yanomami dwelling in Venezuela to share concepts and recommendation. This unprecedented bi-national cooperation results in Venezuelan Yanomami launching land rights marketing campaign for recognition of their territory.
Rector of the Federal College of Roraima invitations Davi to present “Aula Magna”. Referred to as “The spirits and the science of the forest” it’s hailed as a landmark initiative in Davi’s quest to sensitize public opinion in a state hostile to Indigenous peoples.
Yanomami launch books on mushrooms: Ana Amopö: Cogumelos Yanomami, and on fish, crustaceans and molluscs: Salaka pö: Peixes, Crustáceos e Moluscos. These shall be utilized in Yanomami colleges to encourage younger folks in literacy and forest administration.
Hutukara and Survival launch aerial pictures of uncontacted Moxihatetea to attract consideration to the presence of goldminers close to the neighborhood.
2017
Hutukara organizes a gathering of over 50 Yanomami leaders from greater than 10 communities, to debate land invasions.
Brazilian military carries out Operation Curaretinga IX and seizes hardwood and gear from unlawful logging and mining actions in Yanomami territory.
Davi, Raoni Metuktire, spokesman for the Kayapó folks, and Sonia Bone Guajajara, Guajajara chief and activist, launch an open letter denouncing authorities’s concerted assault on Indigenous rights as “genocidal.”
Hutukara and ISA publish first map of unlawful mining camps in Yanomami territory. Davi travels to Geneva to denounce mining invasion on the UN.
2018
Hutukara alerts UN Particular Rapporteur on Indigenous peoples about loss of life threats to Davi.
Davi Kopenawa denounces 5,000 goldminers working within the territory
Lethal measles outbreak in Venezuela kills Yanomami and spreads to Yanomami communities in Brazil.
Hutukuara denounces alleged killing of two uncontacted Yanomami from Moxihatetea neighborhood by goldminers and calls for investigation and expulsion of all goldminers.
Davi launches the Portuguese version of his ebook within the Universities of Minas Gerais and Goiás in Brazil.
In response to strain from the Yanomami, FUNAI and NGOs the military expels 1,500 goldminers in November however regardless of this the gold rush will increase.
Hutukara holds a convention in Yanomami neighborhood of Catrimani to debate well being points previous to taking part within the sixth Nationwide Well being Congress.
Davi accompanies photographer Claudia Andujar to Weimer in Germany the place she receives the Goethe Medal 2018 for her lifetime’s work with the Yanomami. With Claudia and Stephen Corry director of Survival he participates in a dialogue about Claudia’s work and the way forward for the Yanomami and their forest homeland.
Davi travels to Italy on the invitation of Notte Tempo publishers to launch the Italian model of The Falling Sky. He speaks to giant audiences on the Mantova literary competition, the College of Turin, the ebook competition of Rovereto, and in Milan.
Participates within the launch of a photograph exhibition by Claudia Andujar in Paraty.
Helps to organise eleventh assembly of Yanomami ladies to discusses ladies’s rights. 123 ladies attend.
Helps organise first assembly of Yanomami youth to discover find out how to strengthen their participation in insurance policies affecting the Yanomami folks. They talk about find out how to prepare future leaders and spokespeople.
The Guardian’s setting editor chooses Davi’s ebook The Falling Sky as the most effective books about deforestation.
Hutukara participates in a convention to debate the vulnerability of uncontacted tribes in Brazil.
Hutukara organizes the primary workshop for younger Yanomami communicators the place they will be taught concerning the significance of communications and strengthen inter-community networks and throughout the territory.
Communications technique drawn up by Hutukara and ISA with the goal of serving to Yanomami communities strengthen their autonomy and capability to type partnerships, to keep up sustainable livelihoods on their land and to stimulate advocacy and communications to focus on their actions, tasks and intercultural analysis. Hutukara continues to implement radio undertaking to supply Yanomami communities with two-way radios.
Participates within the launch of an exhibition of Claudia Andujar: the Yanomami battle (Claudia Andujar: a luta Yanomami) at Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo.
2019
Yanomami publish open letter and video to President Bolsonaro signed by Hutukara and different Yanomami organisations in response to President Bolsonaro’s declarations that Indigenous peoples’ territories must be opened up for mining and agriculture.
He launches The Falling Sky at Fluminense College and participates within the launch of the exhibition: Claudia Andujar: the Yanomami battle (Claudia Andujar: a luta Yanomami) at Instituto Moreira Salles in Rio de Janeiro.
Davi is one in all three keynote audio system participating in “Amazonia and Our Planetary Futures: A Convention on Local weather Change,” sponsored by the David Rockefeller Middle for Latin American Research at Harvard College, USA.
A committee of Yanomami led by Davi visits numerous Brazilian authorities our bodies to demand the expulsion of unlawful goldminers from their territory.
The favored Amazonian competition Boi de Parintins invitations Davi to take part to attract consideration to his battle to preserve the forest.
Hutukara accompanies well being groups in vaccination programme.
Davi and different Hutukara members journey to Brasilia to current their Environmental and Territorial Administration Plan and protocols for consulting the Yanomami to authorities businesses. They meet with the state secretary for Indigenous well being to demand higher well being care and to elucidate why they’re towards well being care being taken out of federal management and handed to native municipalities.
Davi and different Yanomami contribute drawings and texts for the Fondation Cartier’s exhibition Bushes, in Paris.
Davi and Hutukara proceed to denounce the invasion of goldminers in Yanomami territory. They estimate there are 20,000 unlawful miners there. FUNAI’s base close to the uncontacted Yanomami stays closed.
