Coffee was not a crop traditionally grown by the Paiter Suruí people, an Indigenous community in the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Territory, deep in the Brazilian Amazon. The Suruí’s first contact with the plant was in 1969, which was also their first contact with non-Indigenous people. At the time, Brazil’s federal government was encouraging settlement … Continue reading Indigenous Suruí turn invaders’ crop into high-quality Amazonian coffee