They live in a large village near the Iquê River in the Enawenê Nawê Indigenous Land.

[2] These people are endangered by corporations that encroach on their land and pollute the rivers from which they obtain their source of food.

Many dams have been built or are under construction on the Juruena river that pollute the water and kill many of the fish.

Without fish, there is no food for the Enawene Nawe people, as they eat no red meat.

Also, they believe the nearby land is home to many important spirits, but the land is being destroyed by ranchers, who continue to build dams and who have threatened violence if the members of the tribe perform their rites, such as Yaokwa, their ritual for the maintenance of social and cosmic order.