Catarina Kunhã Nimbopuruá was a Tupi Guarani leader, educator, and guardian of ancestral knowledge. She dedicated her life to Indigenous territories, education, culture, health, medicinal plants, and the transmission of memory.

Catarina’s passing reminds us of this urgency in the most tender and painful way. It reminds us that ancestral knowledge lives in bodies, voices, hands, stories, gestures, plants, chants, and relationships. When someone like Catarina leaves, something immense moves with her. It is important to leave space for silence, for grief, and for the kind of respect that words cannot always hold.

To honour Catarina’s life, we produced this short video. The images in this video were recorded during the First Ancestral Knowledge Sharing Gathering in 2024, where Catarina shared her presence, her words, and her wisdom.

May her path live on in the seeds she planted and in the generations she helped strengthen.