Jaime Diakara Moura Fernandes was born in Igarapé Cucura on the Rio Tiquié, district of Pari-Cachoeira in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira in the state of Amazonas. He holds a degree in pedagogy for Indigenous intercultural education of the PROIND/Amazonas State University (UEA), a master degree in social anthropology of the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), and is a doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology at the UFAM. He is also a researcher of the Núcleo de Estudos da Amazônia Indígena working group at the UFAM and savant in Desana cosmology.