I've read about the Muisca before, I think they're fascinating. I like their story about Bochica.

Gold is an amazing element that you could easily spend an hour on talking about scientifically. Unfortunately that's not who booked Idris Elba. :x

Have you developed this idea much in terms of an actual story? Li'l Land Protectors certainly sounds like an intriguing edutainment pitch, and Maria juggling her love of gold with duty to the rainforest is a particularly deft vector to interrogate real-world frictions.

Let's put it this way, she sees gold as art, like making paintings with gold dust or making a sculpture out of real gold. She's basically against extreme greed and mining to point where the Amazon gets destroyed because of greed. Greed for gold, money, snd industrialization while destroying natural habitats is a HUGE no-no. Instead using gold to make money, why not just let the natives keep it to make art out of it. I mean, the gold belongs to them after all, greedy people need to keep their hand off. But the question is, would this description work? I'm more good at illustrations then writing characters.