Decolonizing Health and Wealth, Part 2
Mon, Nov 02
|Stewart Room, Union Theological Seminary
A heartfelt conversation between Dr. Cornel West and Indigenous chief and healer Alvaro Doethiro Tukano on building spiritual bridges across paradigms. Free event, donations welcome. BPS is a proud community partner.
Time & Location
Nov 02, 2026, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Stewart Room, Union Theological Seminary, Broadway, New York, USA
About the event
A heartfelt conversation between Dr. Cornel West and Indigenous chief and healer Álvaro Doéthiro Tukano, discussing building spiritual bridges across paradigms.
Time: 4 to 7 PM
Location: Stewart Room, Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, New York, NY
About Chief Álvaro Tukano
Álvaro Tukano (Doéthiro) is a Tukano Indigenous tribal Chief, healer, author, educator, and one of the foundational leaders of Brazil’s modern Indigenous movement, with more than four decades of national and international advocacy. He served as Vice-President of the União das Nações Indígenas (UNI), was a mentor and founder of the Federation of Indigenous Organizations of the Rio Negro (FOIRN), participated in the creation and articulation of COIAB and COICA, and led the demarcation of enormous areas for Indigenous territories in the Brazilian Amazon.
He was Chief of Division at FUNAI, and he later served as Director of the Memorial dos Povos Indígenas in Brasília. He has published three…
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