Evaristo
Nugkuag Ikanan has devoted his life to helping organize the indigenous people
of the Amazon Basin to stand up for their civil, economic, human and political
rights. He helped create the Coordinating Group of Indigenous Organizations of
the Amazon Basin (COICA), a federation of national Indian organizations from nine
neighboring states of the Amazon basin. Nugkuag received the Right Livelihood
Award in 1986 and the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1991 for his human rights
and environmental work.