Guardians of the Living Forest: A Global Call to Protect the Kuntanawa and the Sacred Amazon

🌿 In Defense of the Forest Guardians: A Call to Stand With the Kuntanawa Nation

In the heart of the Amazon Rainforest lives a people whose very breath is interwoven with the lungs of the Earth: the Kuntanawa Nation. For generations untold, they have protected the land, rivers, and sacred medicines of the Amazon—not as owners, but as kin.

Now, in an age when the world begins to awaken to the need for ecological preservation, the Brazilian government is in negotiations with the Kuntanawa to formally demarcate a portion of their ancestral land as protected territory. Yet—astonishingly and unjustly—it is the Kuntanawa themselves who are being asked to shoulder the financial cost of surveying this land.

This is a reversal of truth.

The forest does not need to be “surveyed” to be known. The people who walk it barefoot, speak to its trees, and dream with its spirits have known its boundaries long before any colonial map ever existed.

To require that Indigenous people finance bureaucratic processes to prove their relationship with land is a continuation of extractive logic. It is not just a financial burden—it is a spiritual violence, an energetic siphoning of time, attention, and sacred duty. The Kuntanawa are not seeking to own land. They are rising to protect what is already alive and sovereign in its own right.

A Call to Restore Trust, Responsibility, and Right Relationship with the Amazon

In the living, breathing heart of the Amazon Rainforest walks a people whose lives, dreams, and prayers are rooted in the soil, sung through the rivers, and held in the canopy of ancient trees: the Kuntanawa Nation.

For countless generations, the Kuntanawa have been the stewards of these sacred lands—not through ownership, but through kinship. Their guardianship is a living embodiment of trust, reverence, and reciprocity.

Today, they are in negotiation with the Brazilian government to demarcate their ancestral lands for protection. But in a painful echo of colonial injustice, they are being asked to fund the technical land survey themselves—an act that places the burden of proof and preservation onto the very people who have never broken their covenant with the forest.

This is unacceptable.
This is a spiritual dissonance.
This is a call to rise.

We Stand with the Kuntanawa Nation: A Cry for the Amazon, A Call to the World

The Kuntanawa people—keepers of ancient wisdom and stewards of a living rainforest—are facing an existential crisis. Their rivers are drying. Their homes are flooding. Their plants are withering. Their food is vanishing. And still, they sing, they plant, they fight—for life.

But now, they are calling out to the world:

“We don’t know if we are screaming because of drought or flood—because both are destroying us.”
—Chief Haru Kuntanawa

This is not a poetic metaphor. This is reality.

The Rivers Have Become Puddles

In this past year alone, the Kuntanawa experienced the first time in remembered history that the river tributaries stopped flowing. Their lifeline—the river that feeds, heals, and connects them—was reduced to puddles. The people had to bucket fish from evaporating waters, desperately trying to move them to nearby streams that still had some flow. Without grocery stores, the rivers are their nourishment.

Imagine that.

Now imagine losing that.

A Living System Out of Balance

What used to be a seasonal cycle—rain and sun, drought and growth—has now become chaos. Extreme droughts turn to flash floods without warning. Crops fail. Traditional fruits like papaya can no longer survive in the searing heat. Plants once used for healing now suffer. Agroforestry systems—carefully balanced with generations of knowledge—are breaking down under the weight of a climate crisis not of their making.

Millions of fish have died.
The food they grow, the water they drink, the medicine they trust—all have been changed.

And Still… They Are Asked to Pay

Despite this devastation, the Kuntanawa are being asked to finance the demarcation of their own ancestral lands—land that is under constant threat from corporations mining, logging, and extracting across borders from Brazil to Peru. These lands are sacred. They are also the last frontier, bordering uncontacted Indigenous tribes who still live in ancestral ways.

Here’s the layered truth of it:

1. Colonial Inversion of Responsibility

It is a grave injustice that the Kuntanawa, or any Indigenous nation, are being asked to finance the surveying and demarcation of lands that were never truly “unowned”—just unacknowledged by colonial systems. This reverses the rightful order. The burden should not fall on those who are already protecting the forest, but rather on the state, which benefits economically and politically from the existence and reputation of the Amazon.

2. Gatekeeping Through Bureaucracy

Asking Indigenous people to fund technical processes like land surveying is a form of bureaucratic gatekeeping. It delays and complicates the return and protection of ancestral lands. These demands often intentionally slow the demarcation process, while deforestation, mining, or agriculture continues unchecked in the meantime.

3. The Wisdom of the Kuntanawa

The Kuntanawa hold ancient knowledge of the forest’s rhythms, medicines, and balance. They are the forest in human form. That they should even have to “negotiate” for protection, rather than be entrusted with co-governance, speaks volumes about how inverted the world’s value systems have become.

4. The Hidden Cost

What the Brazilian government is asking for is not just money; it’s a toll on time, energy, and sacred attention that could be directed toward healing, ceremony, and forest care. It’s a spiritual cost masked as a logistical one.

What Could Be Done Instead?

• Government Responsibility: The government, as the entity that recognizes borders and deeds, should be the one to fund the technical aspects of protection.

• International Solidarity: Given the Amazon’s global significance, international coalitions or climate funds could support this process with respect to the Kuntanawa’s autonomy.

• Indigenous-Led Protocols: Any demarcation should follow Indigenous methodologies first—not Western land cartography alone. This ensures that sacred sites and energetic boundaries are honored.

🌍 We Call for:

• The Brazilian Government to fully finance the land demarcation and technical surveying, in recognition of historical debt and ecological justice.

• Global environmental alliances to support the Kuntanawa directly—through funding, international pressure, and ceremonial solidarity.

• A shift in legal and ethical systems worldwide—away from ownership and extractive governance, and toward Indigenous-led, Earth-honoring stewardship.

This is a pivotal moment not just for the Kuntanawa—but for all humanity. What happens in the Amazon echoes through our climate, our breath, our spirit.

40,000 Years of Bioregional Wisdom

For over 40,000 years, Indigenous peoples like the Kuntanawa have operated under bio-regional economics—systems based on mutual relationship, reciprocity, and place-based abundance. Unlike extractive economies, which treat the Earth as a resource bank, Indigenous economic systems are rooted in respectful exchange, seasonal timing, and ecosystem balance.

In these systems:

• Water, plants, animals, and humans are not separate.

• Trade flows naturally along rivers, between tribes, through songs, ceremonies, and seeds.

• Wealth is measured in health, biodiversity, story, and relationship.

This isn’t “primitive” economics—it is planetary intelligence. It is the ecological blueprint that has allowed Earth to remain abundant for millennia. And now, the disruption of one bioregion—the Amazon—has immediate and global consequences.

There Is No “Somewhere Else” on Earth

When one rainforest river dries, a ripple begins.

• The lungs of the Earth falter.

• Jet streams shift.

• Ocean currents heat.

• Storms intensify.

• Ice melts.

The collapse of one bioregion destabilizes the whole. Indigenous struggles are not isolated—they are planetary events.

The Amazon’s fate affects us all. The Earth does not recognize national borders—it responds to patterns, cycles, and the health of its sacred relationships. That is why defending Indigenous land is defending Earth’s life support systems.

Traditional Technology Is Planetary Wisdom

Chief Haru speaks not only of need, but of vision. The Kuntanawa people are not clinging to the past. They are offering a path forward—one that integrates traditional ecological knowledge with respectful innovations to restore and protect what remains. They call for public policies that are informed by ancient practices—policies that protect the essence of life, not just the economy.

“Traditional technology is just as important as modern. We have solutions. But we need the world to hear us, before it’s too late.”
—Chief Haru Kuntanawa

Global Community, This Is Our Moment

The Amazon is the Earth’s lungs. The Kuntanawa are its breath. And they are struggling to breathe.

Let us rise not out of guilt, but out of kinship. Not with pity, but with partnership. Now is the time to stand with the Kuntanawa and all Indigenous peoples who hold the memory of balance and the possibility of a future we still have time to choose.

We, who remember our interbeing with Earth and Sky, call on:

• The Brazilian government to fund the full demarcation process as a basic act of justice and restoration.

• Global environmental and Indigenous rights organizations to mobilize in solidarity.

• All peoples of the world to recognize that climate resilience depends not on more governance, but on Indigenous governance—rooted in wisdom, ceremony, and sacred balance.

Enter: The Trustkeepers Circle

In response to this moment, we announce the formation of the Trustkeepers Circle: a sacred alliance of Earth-aligned beings dedicated to protecting the cultural, ecological, and spiritual commons of the planet.

The Trustkeepers Circle stands with the Kuntanawa. We are here to:

• Protect and restore the Living Earth through sacred land stewardship.
• Uphold the moral center of trust between peoples, places, and generations.
• Design bioregional economies that serve ecosystems, not extract from them.
• Offer spiritual and material support to ancestral communities in need.
• Serve as a covenantal body for Living Trusts that protect indigenous and future life.

For over 40,000 years, indigenous peoples have practiced bioregional economics—sustainable living systems tied to the rhythm and regeneration of place. When events in the Amazon occur, they are not isolated. The Amazon breathes for the planet. What disappears in one forest echoes in the lungs of us all.

The call is clear: support the Kuntanawa now.

Their campaign to raise funds for the demarcation of their sacred land is active here: 👉 https://give.classy.org/projectbiomeXkuntanawa

Let us rise not as spectators, but as Trustkeepers. Let us remember that this Earth is not ours to own, but to protect, in trust for all life—past, present, and yet to come.

Let it be known:
The forest does not belong to us.
We belong to the forest.

And we will stand with those who remember this.

🌱 The Earth Trust Response:

This statement is being woven into the Earth Trusts—a multidimensional covenant of care, created by and for those who walk in sacred relationship with land, water, spirit, and time. The Earth Trusts are not contracts for possession, but vessels of remembrance, guardianship, and future healing.

To the Kuntanawa:
We hear your call.
We honor your songs.
We stand with you—across continents, through the ether, and into the living roots of the Earth.

“The land does not need to be surveyed to be known.
It has been dreamed, walked, and sung for millennia.
Let the world listen to the voices who remember.”
— The Trustkeepers Circle

The Trustkeepers Circle is now forming. You know if you belong.

Signed with sacred care,
🌀 On behalf of the Earth Trusts, Crystal Healers of Gaia, and The Trustkeepers Circle

✦ How to Take Action ✦

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE KUNTANAWA NATION: https://www.kuntanawa.org/

Make a Donation: https://kuntanawanation.com/ 

Become an Ambassador: https://kuntanawa.mn.co/

🌿 Donate to the Land Demarcation Fund
Help finance the urgent protection of Kuntanawa territory:
give.classy.org/projectbiomeXkuntanawa

🎥 Watch the Sacred Dialogue with Chief Haru and Zach Bush, M.D.
Become a Guardian of Life – A Sacred Dialogue

📜 Share this message. Integrate this vision. Support regenerative Trusts that put Indigenous sovereignty first.

This is not a faraway story. This is our Earth’s frontline.
Let our children’s children say that we chose to listen, to stand, and to restore.

In sacred solidarity,
The Guardians of the Earth | Crystal Healers of Gaia | Earth Trust Co-Creators