National Georgraphic is a magazine that primarily focuses on Geography, History and world culture. For these reasons I feel it would be a perfect research tool for my FMP as its research is usually well researched and reliable. The magazine was one of the first thing that spark the idea to use culture as my FMP topic. I was looking through some old issues of Nation Geographic and came across 'the defenders of the amazon' issue. The pictures were very strong and empowering and match the artical which was promoting the tribes of the amazons standing up to those destroying their homes and culture.
Below is a part of the article that had the biggest impact on me, it was so discriptive even before seeing the pictures I already knew what it looked like. From this I began making the concept art and drawings as I felt this description was a good place to start.
"The plane clawed through the haze of forest fires around the Brazilian frontier town of Tucumã. After half an hour heading south and west at a hundred knots, we crossed the twisting course of the muddy Rio Branco, and suddenly there were no more fires, no more roads, no more ragged clear-cut pastures stippled with herds of white cattle, nothing but trackless forest wreathed in mist. Below us lay Kayapo Indian country, five officially demarcated tracts of contiguous land that in sum make up an area about the size of Kentucky. The reserve, which is among the largest protected expanses of tropical rain forest in the world, is controlled by 9,000 indigenous people, most of whom can’t read or write and who still follow a largely subsistence way of life in 44 villages linked only by rivers and all-but-invisible trails. Our National Geographic crew was headed to one of the most remote, the village of Kendjam, which means “standing stone” and which took its name from a dark gray mountain that now appeared before us, arcing some 800 feet above the green canopy like a breaching whale. A little past the mountain lay the glittering braids of the Iriri River, the largest tributary of the Xingu, itself a major tributary of the Amazon. The Cessna swerved down on a dirt airstrip slashed through the forest between the rock and the river and taxied past small garden plots and thatch houses arranged in a circle around a sandy plaza." http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/01/kayapo/brown-text 
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