Vesku

Vesku is a Yawanawá female leader living in an Apurinã village, devoted to strengthening Indigenous culture, with a special focus on women and the use of medicinal plants. Sister to spiritual leader Putanny, she carries the legacy of her grandfather, a great healer who knew many medicinal plants. A student of midwives and women healers, she is also a guardian of Yawanawá songs, stories, and ancestral knowledge, learned since her childhood. At her home, she is building a medicinal plant pharmacy as well as a seed bank, dedicating herself to preserving Indigenous knowledge and medicine.