[1] A leader of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, her work focuses on the Amazon jungle and environmental destruction.
[2] Artemisa Xakriabá belongs to the Xacriabas indigenous people located in the north of the state of Minas Gerais,[2][3] in the southeast of Brazil.
She has expressed the problems suffered by her community in the fight to protect its territory from environmental damage from mining.
[6] On this occasion, she was dressed in the headdress of her ethnic group, a feather headband and parts of her body and face painted.
[7] She also accompanied Thunberg to demand solutions from the United States Congress in Washington, D.C..[8] With determination, she managed to reach several US senators and deputies to present an open letter from the indigenous people who make up the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities.