Kaiowas by Sepultura is an acoustic track conceived both as a tribute to and a form of protest on behalf of the Guarani-Kaiowá, an indigenous Brazilian tribe. In October 2012 facing an imminent forced eviction order from their land at Pyelito Kue, a Kaiowá community released a dramatic open letter declaring their readiness to die together on the site rather than abandon their lands. The Indigenous Missionary Council later clarified that this was not a plan for mass suicide but rather an extreme act of resistance and an expression of their determination to be buried together in their ancestral soil. Sepultura chose to highlight this tragedy through the acoustic, tribal track Kaiowas, turning it into a global symbol of protest against state violence and the destruction of native peoples.
