What does it mean being an Ameridian, today?

These pictures portray the Amerindian Community in the Rupununi region of Guyana. Indigenous people belong to two main tribes: the Wapishana people who live in the South Rupununi area and the Makushi people who inhabit the North Rupununi area. Villages explored here are in an area of savannah in the middle of the Amazonian forest at the border with Brazil.

What emerges from these images is the process of the community members who are in a transition towards modernity and technological innovations. Indigenous people constantly live a trade off between modernity that can simplify their life, but also create environmental sustainability problem, and tradition which reduces the possibility of creating an economic surplus in the community.

The villages are organized accordingly to a community model management. The community owns the land and each decision on how to share and use it among the members of the community is taken in a community council.