As the Amazon fires rage, members of this indigenous community brace for their world to change

The devastating wildfires sweeping the Amazon aren't just destroying the rainforest; they're also upending the lives of Brazil's indigenous people.

For this tiny band of firefighters, there are no epic cargo planes with tons of water, or helicopter drops. Just shovels, sweat, a turbo kind of leaf blower to burn the fire out, and long, bumpy, agonizing drives in aging jeeps and ATVs, across the dust and ash.The challenge is equal to the global stakes involved. Much of the Amazon is canopy, but parts of it -- like the National Park of the Campos Amazonicos -- are also savanna, where fires are stoked by powerful wind.

CNN takes you into the heart of the Amazon fires 03:11He means President Jair Bolsonaro, globally criticized for his exploitative approach to the Amazon and his mixed response to the fires raging this year through it. The Tenharim say the fires in their area -- 900,000 hectares, which they say their thousand people legally own -- have increased yearly. There were 93 last year, they said, a third up on the year before that.

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