As a bonfire lit by children finished burning, the winners at the first Indigenous Games of Peruibe calmly welcomed their wooden medals around their necks with little fanfare otherwise.
Wearing Paris Saint-Germain shorts and black paint on his body, he competed - and lost - in every sport he played during the games.
April is Brazil’s Indigenous Awareness Month, an occasion that is once again widely celebrated under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. His predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, was a critic of Indigenous celebrations and repeatedly said the original peoples would be better off by joining whites as one nation and fostering economic activities that often hurt the environment, such as mining and logging. The Indigenous Games of Peruibe are a response to that, according to elder Dario Tunpan.
“This is not a real competition, we are here to make friends, but it is nice to see I did well against them,” Jará said. “I don’t listen to people roaring like this every day. It felt special.” The log-carrying relay race is popular among the Indigenous all over Brazil. Some of those races take place with logs that weigh about 220 pounds and with as many as 10 competitors in each team. In Peruibe, the organization sliced logs from a kind of palm tree that was cut after rituals and gave them to four teams of two per race. The heaviest of the pieces, used in the men’s tournament, weighed about 11 pounds. The lightest, for children, was one-tenth of that.
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