# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ailton-krena
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:45.152Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ailton-krena"
name: "Ailton Krena"
slug: "ailton-krena"
description: "Ailton Krenak is an Indigenous writer, philosopher, journalist, environmentalist, and activist of the Krenak people. He became widely known after his protest at the Brazilian Constituent Assembly on September 4, 1987, when he painted his face with black jenipapo dye while delivering a speech against the violation of Indigenous peoples rights. He participated in the drafting of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 as a representative of Indigenous peoples. He is the author of Ideas to Postpone the End of The World (2020), Life is not useful (2023), and Ancestral Future (2024), among other books, essays and interviews. His ideas on predatory human activity against the planet, non-anthropocentric humanity, the institution of dreaming, and the relevance of orality as a way to reconnect with community and the planet, developed in books such as Life is Not Useful, have been very influential to environmentalism and modern thought in general, an influence that served as ground for his induction as the first indigenous member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2024."
tagline: "Brazilian indigenous activist, writer and philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ailton_Krenak_(5269420566)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1953-09-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.115930666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailton_Krenak"
    title: "Ailton Krenak"
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    title: "Ailton Krenak"
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  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailton_Krenak"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A6%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD"
    title: "アイウトン・クレナッキ"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailton_Krenak"
    title: "Ailton Krenak"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump