The 90 years old Huni Kuin elder, is one of the oldest in the region of Jordão (AC, Brazil), belongs to a lineage that stems from the shenipabu ("povo antigo"), and is one of the main researchers, teachers, leaderships, and communicator of the originary science of his people, responsible for the intercultural exchange between the Huni Kuin ancestry and the world, considered one of the main diffusors of contemporary indigenous thinking. 

Pioneer in the assembly of medicine plant species parks, is also a deep knower of traditional wisdom such as the usage of medicine plant species, chants, stories, dreams, diets, rituals, baptisms, among others.

Founder of Una Shubu Hiwea - Escola Viva, itself a continuation of the project of knowledge transmission that resulted in the Una Hiwea - Livro Vivo (2013 UFMG) publication; Una Isi Kayawa (2014 JBRJ e Dantes Editora), o Livro da Cura do povo Huni Kuin do Rio Jordão publication; and Una Shubu Hiwea, Livro da Escola Viva (2017 Dantes Editora e Itaú Cultural),  which was an important collaborator, dividing authorship in the first two publications while being the main author in the latter, which brought together researchers of 36 villages from the Jordão river area to work in the project.

Participates actively in networks that weave intercultural knowledge through different media outlets, within and outside Huni Kuin territory, such as Selvagem – Ciclo de Estudos sobre a Vida for the last 4 years up to present time; having his work being an inspiration for the project Escolas Vivas, by Dantes Editora.

Located on the border between the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, the most numerous indigenous ethnicity in the state of Acre (Brazil), which accounts more than 13,000 people distributed over 12 indigenous lands in more than 100 villages . 

Belonging to the Pano linguistic group, which is itself composed by more than 13 indigenous ethnicities, the Huni Kuin people is one of the last to establish contact with the western world and managed to preserve its native language and its culture,  that touches more and more people around the world. 

Located in the southwest of the state of Acre, in the upper Jordão river area, officially known by the federal government as “Terra Indígena Alto Rio Jordão”, is one of the three Huni Kuin lands located in the the municipality of Jordão (AC, Brazil), Shane Ni Huinti (Heart of the Forest Village) is inhabited by 50 people which compose 12 families, all being Dua Buse's close relatives.

After a successful crowdfunding during the year 2022 to afford emergency treatments for Dua Buse, the village expanded its structures and with the aid of APOTI it now has 2 solar panels with minimal energy distribution and water infrastructure.

In the village's surroundings lie 3 Medicine Parks with 21 nests and more than 750 medicinal plants of 32 different species, planted and cared for by Dua Buse, which are part of the study and research of the traditional science of the Shenipabu; at the center of the village a Kupixawa, where he teaches his community

With the building of necessary structures - guesthouse, kitchen and dining hall; new building of the Living School - Kupixawa Una Shubu Hiwea; Luck of The Boa Traditional School of Artcraft - Una Shubu Yube Xinã Kuin, and the acquisition of an equipped boat, the Heart of the Forest Village becomes able to receive visitors from other villages and from all over the world to study, research, and work with the Shenipabu Ika Nai Bai Center.

Officially founded in the beginning of 2023 through the support of IGF - Instituto Guardiões da Floresta and INU TAE INDIGENOUS ARTCRAFT, the school of traditional weaving artcrafts of Heart of the Forest village expands the dream of continuing the Shenipabu Beya Kuin ("tradition of the ancients"). 

Led by the elder of Shane Ni Huinti, Una Shubu Yube Xinã Kuin - Luck of the Boa Traditional School of Artcraft has the objective of supporting the production and transmission of knowledges related to the ancient culture of the Huni Kuin women, the traditional cotton-weaving techniques, rites (stories, diets, chants, etc... ) and kenes (sacred drawings). 

Aims to build social and physical infrastructure so that the traditional intergenerational wisdom lineages of the Huni Kuin women make bridge with the forms of the contemporary world in the Xinã Bena ("New Time"), generation of sustainable income and support of indigenous women leaderships.

Master craftswoman of Shane Ni Huinti, elder of the Huni Kuin tradition, 69 years old, mother of 7 daughters and 2 sons, Dua Buse's wife, village's leadership. Nete has learnt traditional artcraft, its complex ritualistic, which embraces diets, chants and stories, the besides the cotton-weaving techniques and the ancient apparatus required to perform the works, from her grandmother Txirá Luzia Domingos Kaxinawa. 

Knower of 26 kenes (sacred drawings) inherited from the shenipabu ("the ancients"), passes on her knowledge to her daughters, granddaughters and Huni Kuin relatives, preserving originary wisdom and fortifying her community, supporting the creation of development opportunities for the women of the village.

Nete and her students attend custom orders of traditional woven artcrafts with Huni Kuin sacred drawings, kenes:

Sapu Tari Keneya (clothes with kene patterns) in different shapes and sizes, Nani Shukuti (scarfs, stripes), Txituti Keneya (traditional hammock), plain fabrics with kenes, and custom artcraft.

Get in touch to order your custom piece or visit INU TAE physical venue, official showroom for Una Shubu Yube Xinã Kuin - Luck of the Boa Traditional School of Artcraft, support the contemporary artcraft and indigenous women protagonism:

Erik Rodrigues / +5521991032795