Shanenawá People – People of the Blue Bird.
Maná Shanenawá, chief and shaman of the Kene Merá village.
The Shanenawa people live on the banks of the Envira River (Feijó - Acre) since 1940, there are 1500 indigenous people distributed in 11 villages, they live in the tradition and within their culture, considered by all indigenous people as Doctors of the Forest, they are scholars of medicinal herbs and much talked about by the best medicines of the forest.
Giving a voice to the entire Shanenawá nation, we present the Pajé and Cacique Maná, young leader of the Kene Merá Village. Maná has a degree in Letters from the Federal University of Acre, is a teacher in the village and the project for his first book in the traditional language (Nuke tsãy) has been completed so that the entire community can have something historical about its people, their local medicines and their culture.
For 16 years, Maná was prepared by the village elders, receiving ancestral knowledge and their own people's knowledge to be consecrated as one of the connoisseurs of sacred medicines, one of the Pajés.
Recently Maná had to leave his village for a long journey with two objectives, the first, to speak and spread the Shanenawá indigenous cosmovision, the school of spirituality or school of life, in a rescue of healing the heart of humanity, along with these exchanges of knowledge, the second objective, the collection of financial resources to repair everything that was destroyed by a flood that happened in the year 2021, which caused great damage to the physical structures of the community, leaving some important structures such as the drinking water well, the Casa de Rezo, the Women's House, completely damaged.
Maná brings in her speech valuable messages from the forest, from everything that is being forgotten and that needs to be illuminated again, as Cacique understands the importance of the collective, of shared decisions, prioritizing what is good for everyone, demonstrating alternatives of visions and quality of life