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Amerindian net-activism, as a connected movement of traditional peoples, autonomously amplifies sensibilities that emerge on digital platforms. Therefore, this chapter aims to analyze the production and appropriation of digital platforms, their modules and contents, produced by Amerindians. For this, three digital platforms were selected: TePI - Theater and Indigenous Peoples - Digital Platform; Cinenativo - Indigenous Cinema Platform and the Wayuri Podcast - Wayuri Network of Indigenous Communicators, in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, using the SoundCloud platform. In the analysis we take into account local practices; niches and reach; ethnic diversity; the cosmologies involved; and the ecology that connects digital technologies and the forest. We identified that on these digital platforms, Amerindians update their peers on the fight for their rights; decoloniality movements; combat fake news and humanitarian crises; as well as creating sensitive spaces to express their cosmological diversities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to map Brazilian ethnicities connected to the Internet and observe indigenous net-activist communication practices, during the Covid-19 pandemic, as a way of resisting and coping with cosmophagic processes based on the analysis of three Instagram profiles: @midiaindiaoficial, @apiboficial and @visibilidadeindigena. From the analysis, it was possible to perceive how the profile communications are strongly marked by 1) awareness and denunciation of violations of indigenous rights; 2) dissemination of achievements and events and 3) articulation of mobilizations, occupations and organized interventions. In addition, it is clear that the Instagram network is now inhabited by indigenous peoples as an ecosystem of strive and resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]