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Roberto A. Zuazo
Roberto Alencar Zuazo, is a native Aymara Elder, storyteller, wisdom keeper, traditional carver, teacher of Amerindian culture, myths and legends, ceremonial mask maker, natural polyglot and activi...view moreRoberto Alencar Zuazo, is a native Aymara Elder, storyteller, wisdom keeper, traditional carver, teacher of Amerindian culture, myths and legends, ceremonial mask maker, natural polyglot and activist from the Amazon Rainforest. He grew up on the upper Purus River in Brazil. His Mother and grandfather were spiritual Healers and his father worked for many years as a traditional River pilot, renowned for vast oral knowledge of the Amazonian culture, myths and legends.Zuazo, as Aymara elder, wisdom keeper, cultural interpreter, and self-made polyglot has served as a wilderness instructor, and resource person for the scientific community of environmentalists, conservationists, ecologists, naturalists, biologists, ethnobotanists, anthropologists, and nature lovers.At the age of 16, Roberto became jungle guide and resource person for European scientific expeditions to the Amazon rainforest. He learned eight European languages while working with scientists and speaks several Amerindian Tongues.Along with his sister Auxiliadora Zuazo a well-known rainforest activist, poet and artist, they co-founded the first “Centro de Artes do Amazon” in 1967 to revive aboriginal art and provide on-going income for native artists. Zuazo is artist/carver; he has taught traditional arts such as woodcarving, pottery, sculpture, making ceremonial masks, musical instruments, pottery, basketry, bark canoes, paddles, spears, stone hatched, lances, blowguns, bows and arrows.He also co-founded, was playwright for, and directed the “Teatro de Dancas Amerindian” which promoted Amazonian arts and culture by performing sacred rituals of native life on the stage. Zuazo was appointed by SENAC, the government vocational school, to teach Amazonian lore, myths, legends, traditional ecological knowledge and Amerindian Spirituality.In the last 50 years he has given interactive workshops on the core of Amazonian Spirituality and Shamanic Consciousness in Brazil, Europe, Scandinavia, Canada, and the United States.Mr. Zuazo has written various articles on his aboriginal perspective of in interpreting the Amazon Jungle Philosophy of Life, and Nature People’s practices of conservation, to non-native society. In the 80 and 90’s he openly criticized the Brazilian government policies which supported the destruction the Amazon bio-diversity ecosystem on which millions of Nature People still depend for their daily Life. Because of this work, his life was threatened and he was forced to flee Brazil.Three decades ago he came to Ottawa invited by the World Media Institute, as a Correspondent for Latin American and Indigenous People. He’s a former CEO of the World Council of Indigenous people, and spiritual adviser for Sacred Assembly and Centre for Traditional Knowledge.view less