1 12 23 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/0b09ce85dd6bec77bd56527d8cd244d3.pdf 177d5991ff8b960301141fafa485fe1c PDF Text Text '' "We Indian people want the National Organization of Indians in Colombia (ONIC) to be like a great Maloca (the traditional communal house), a Maloca built with the hands and effort of everybody, where we can all fit, without leaving anyone out." In February ONIC held the Second National Indian Congress in Colombia. More than 900 people representing about 500,000 Indians got together to evaluate the activities of the organization and to discuss the present situation of Indian communities in relation to organization, land tenure, economic life, health, education, ownership and use of natural resources, study and use of Indian legislation, and relations with non-Indian popular movements. Conclusions of the meeting, according to Unidad Indigena, the newspaper published by ONIC, included: -"In relation to land, we marshaled our strength to pursue the enlargement of the reserves until we get the minimum land necessary to guarantee our existence. -"In relation to communications, we want the newspaper Unidad Indigena to become a voice for all the communities in the country by training people in the regional organizations to do journalistic work. -"In relation to legislation, we must study the laws that exist and compel the government to comply with the laws which protect us. -"In the field of education, we have formed a special committee within ONIC to ensure the enforcement of decree 1142, which assures the autonomy of Indian communities. -"In relation to economy, we call for Indian communities to take upon ourselves the responsibility of directing our own development projects so that resources are dedicated to programs of communal interests. -"In relation to health, we encourage the pursuit of ways to combine western medicine and traditional Indian medicine. -"In relation to other organizations, we propose that our interactions not be utilitarian and that we trade materials and share experiences more frequently in order to enrich our relationships." Indian youth joined the Congress, formed their own commission, and proposed that youth meetings in the regional organizations should also be held because "only in this way can we improve our education and recuperate our cultural values." Despite the difficult situation that Indian people face in Colombiaincluding invasion of their lands, the presence of non-Indian religious organizations, and the danger of being caught in confrontations between government military forces and guerrilla groups-the Second National Indian Congress reinforced the unity of Indian people and the goal "to live off our land, from our own hands, with our parents and our children, in peace which has always been present in our communities. Page 10 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Building the Great Maloca" (Colombia) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1986 Zotero Title "Building the Great Maloca" (Colombia) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (10).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/cf43e6bb0c1c6ec9580d2d8ab69a6e85.pdf af2aa2762ac2a000189cbb2e5bb2d9da PDF Text Text ECUADOR CONFENIAE Denounces Land Seizures By Oil Companies The Confederation of Indian Nations in the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) has accused Occidental, Esso-Hispanoil, and Diamond Oil Companies from the United States, British Petroleum from England, and the Conoco-Opic consortium from the United States and Taiwan of moving into Indian lands with the approval of the Ecuadorian government. They have now become the largest threat to Indian communities. Esso-Hispanoil, one of the largest oil companies in the world, obtained 100,000 hectares of land which belongs to the Huarani (Aucas). British Petroleum also Shuar Indian of Ecuador. obtained 200,000 hectares of Quichua land. According to CONFENIAE, both companies have been granted the use of land which is riow being planted in African palm (see SAIIC Newsletter, Spring 1986). They say, "We have,been able to prove that all these transnational corporations work cooperatively. The oil companies make the roads which are then used by those who exploit the African palm, cut down the forests and make this wood available to the large lumber companies." ''The istory Of My Organization'' The following comments are part of an essay which won first prize in 1985 in a nationwide competition among Indian organizations in Ecuador. They originally appeared in La Bocina, the publication of the Ecuadorian Federation for Public Progress (Federaci6n Ecuatoriana de Populorum Progressio). Our unity taught us what our goals must be. Our organization is not only for building community centers, bridges, schools, warehouses, water systems, and cooperatives, but also to develop a vision of our future. Clearly one of our goals is to develop the material infrastructure of our community, because we have to improve our lives. But as an organization we must be leery of developmentalism. We can't concern ourselves solely with material work, because then we run the risk of exploiting others in the same situation we were before. At first we didn't understand this well and thought that by organizing ourselves we could do to other cultures what they have done to us. We lacked analysis and reflection. We always have to look to the future to see where our organization is going, to keep an eye on our goals, to avoid falling into the trap of developmentalism. Developmentalism brings along with it egoism, individualism, and materialism. It Page 8 Vol.2, no. 4. Summer, 1986 �brings poverty to the majority and takes from us our feeling for life, which is the most important thing there is. Organizations are not made for us. They must be created. Begin with your home. At home we have trust. Trust is the seed. In Otavalo Community Mariana Chuquin, a Quichua Indian from Otavalo, Ecuador, who is visiting in San Francisco, recently made the following comments on education in her community: For those of us living in rural communities, it's very hard to educate our children. It is important to us that there is good bi-lingual education that strengthens our culture and communities. But many children are needed in the family's effort to survive economically, so they can't attend school. And the government gives very little support to education in rural communities. Most children don't go beyond the fourth grade. In my community, Mariano Acosta, it is the community itself and the school teacher who work together to make an education possible for our children. The community organizes mingas (community work groups) to construct roads, the school building, and other community buildings. Sometimes we have to use our imagination to make educational equipment and materials. Every week we organize in mingas to improve our community, to continue forward each day for the future of our children. lnd Voters Major Factor In Elections The greatly increased political organization of Indian communities was cited as a major factor in the overwhelming rejection June 1 of a constitutional referendum proposed by Ecuador's conservative government, according to Juan Aulestia, Oxfam America program representative for South America. Speaking at a meeting jointly sponsored by SAIIC and Oxfam America in Berkeley on June 19, Juan said that the growing realization among Indian communities that they can be a majority of the electorate was one of the most impressive developments he observed during a recent trip to Ecuador, which is his native country. Juan said that the conservative government of President Le6n Febres Cordero has moved to undermine Indian political organizations by renewing government support for the Summer Institute of Linguistics, an evangelical organization ordered to leave Ecuador by a previous government under pressure from Indian / \' \ ) /' groups. The government has also created "ghost" organizations which it claims ':\) /y/"i~ I'""' represent Indian interests as a means of spreading disunity in Indian communities. \ Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 9 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource "The History of My Organization" (Ecuador) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1986 Zotero Title "The History of My Organization" (Ecuador) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (8-9).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/d1097b046abf4f0f0ed0864e3021048b.pdf 3cf25787c8fa1d8cdbda7d8b24d27ebf PDF Text Text We've worked with the Western Shoshone people in their fight to maintain their ancestral homeland. They were also able to successfully defeat the MX missile that was proposed to go into Nevada. They used the argument that they held title to the land and it worked. We've worked with women's health projects. We've worked with women who were interested in reviewing traditional methods of healing and midwifery. They have been very successful in their communities in bringing women together to talk about their common concerns and to gain control over their reproductive rights. We've worked with over 85 projects in the past eight years and they are all grassroots, Indian-controlled, Indian-initiated projects in Canada and the United States. SAIIC: How have you now become involved with some hemispheric-wide concerns of Indian people? Victoria: We became involved as an organization in 1981 when the people in Guatemala asked us to speak out on their behalf. We ran a full-page ad in The New York Times denouncing the Guatemalan government for their brutalization of the Guatemalan people, in particular the Indian people who are the majority in that country. We keep finding, no matter where we go or who we talk to, that our concerns as Indian people are the same concerns. We're all concerned about our land, our spirituality, our families, our communities, and our rights to exist as separate, distinct people. Those are themes that come up over and over again. And they are the same issues that people involved in both hemispheres are working on right now. I think that we have a lot to learn from one another as Indian people, and I think that we can help one another. You know, it's all community. We are talking about community, and there are many people now working in both the United States and Canada to rebuild their communities and rebuild their nations. I think it is time to start reaching out to other Indian people in Central America and South America and to start rebuilding the ties that we've had over the centuries. For more information about the Seventh Generation Fund, write P.O. Box 10, Forestville, CA 94536. Art Dealers Raid Indian Heritage John Ross, a correspondent writing from Peru, reports that the heritage of Indian civilizations is vanishing from under the noses of the Peruvian and Mexican governments. The Peruvian government is concerned that some 50,000 objects created by Indian cultures before the European invasion are being stolen by graverobbers and art dealers each year. But descendants of the Incas argue that the government's policy of nationalizing such objects constitutes theft of Indian heritage by non-Indian governments. "The whites manipulate our culture. They make laws for their own class and state which, of course, is not truly national, since we, the majority of the population, are excluded from power," says Salvador Palomino, a Quechua-speaking descendant of the Incas and one Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page P �of the founders of the South American Indian Council (CISA), with headquarters in Lima. "They take our mummies and insult the dead by displaying them as they do. They take our religion and use our creations to justify their ethnocentric theories which say that European cultures were the height of civilization. When I go to their museums, a profound sadness comes over me." Several years ago CISA successfully prevented exhibition in the United States of a stela from the ancient Chavin culture because "we feared it would be lost to us forever." Palomino and other Indian leaders propose a system of regional museums for Peru run by the nation's 64 Indian groups. "We are not against the whites, only their hegemony. We need to form a regional system so that we can have access to these relics," states Palomino. In Mexico, the theft of 140 priceless Indian objects from the National Museum of Anthropology last Christmas eve renewed demands for the return of valuable ritual objects to the Indian communities from which they were originally removed. Indian organizations such as the National Nahua Council, who are descendants of the Aztecs, have long demanded such repatriation. Santiago Gonzales, a Tarascan Indian, said, "We don't know who stole those pieces Christmas eve, but the Anthropology Museum steals from us all the time." Actress Shirley MacLaine has demonstrated recently another way that Indian heritage is stolen. Filming her life story in Peru, she spoke of revelations she received that the famous lines and figures drawn in the desert near Nasca are the work of extraterrestrials. Most other people familiar with the tremendous accomplishments of Indian cultures see no reason to attribute them to outside forces. A beautiful collector's edition silkscreen print of the mythical Morib-it fish is now available through SAIIC. Each print is numbered and signed by Ailton Krenak, an artist with the Nucleo de Cultura Indigena in Brazil and a coordinator of the ·union of Indian Nations (UNI). Printed in red and black on pastel paper, the silkscreens are $30 unframed or $65 framed. All proceeds will benefit UNI. Page 18 Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Art Dealers Raid Indian Heritage Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1986 Zotero Title Art Dealers Raid Indian Heritage Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (17-18).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/68f3fd4e44d8522d0e2456b9275a536b.pdf 291b517c9fb543b637626316430c81cd PDF Text Text apuche G ps Define Goals During the first week of June a significant gathering of the three major Mapuche organizations, Centros Culturales Mapuches, AD-Mapu, and Nehuen Mapu, resulted in a clear set of jointly defined goals: 1. All Mapuche demands for the coming democracy in Chile shall be presented through the Assembly of Civil Organizations, the nationwide coalition of non-governmental organizations working for a democratic Chile. 2. The formation of a tripartite commission to formulate a document to unite the Mapuche people into one organization that carries forward their struggles and goals. The groups also agreed to the following proposals to the Assembly of Civil Organizations: 1. The immediate repeal of Laws 2568 and 2750, which eliminate communal land holdings of Indian people, and a return to Law 17,729, which supported the gains in landholding made before the military coup of 1973. 2. The reinstatement of all lands taken from Indian communities under Law 2568. 3. The reestablishment of the Indian Institute under Indian control. 4. The establishment of a new constitution giving rights of self-determination to Mapuche people. Legislation to conserve Mapuche land and natural resources. Recognition by all sectors of Chilean society of traditional Mapuche forms of sotial organization and authority structure. Guarantee of the rights of pol1 itical participation in national affairs. Assault On Huilliche Described Carlos Orlando Lincomfm is a member of the Butahuillimapu, the central council which represents 137 organized communities of Huilliche people between Valdivia and Chiloe in southern Chile, and cacique (chief) of the province. In an article in Fortin Mapocho dated June 9, 1986, he states, "After the coup [in 1973] they destroyed the Indian communal laws. They divided our land, trying to do away with our organizations. They told us we would each be landowners. But individualism is alien to the Huilliches." Carlos says that Achala Island, which once belonged to Juan Bautista Inaicheo, another cacique and a relative of Carlos, now belongs to a hotel owner from Quell6n. "Nobody knows how he got a title of ownership." He adds, "The beaches that once were ours have been turned over to individuals. We (l.ren't allowed to gather shellfish or raise fish in the carrols." Carlos also talked about the company which is building roads in the area. They take down the Huilliches' fences and the animals roam away. Then the police come and give the Huilliches tickets for not keeping their animals fenced in. "One day I complained to the engineer. He told me he had expropriation orders. But later I found out that this wasn't true." For the Huilliches, the destruction of fences is a part of life. "I don't think that any future government will return our lands. The current policies are stacked against us. We had an opportunity with the Allende government, but then the coup came and nothing was left." Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 5 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Assault on Huilliche Land Described (Chile) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1986 Zotero Title Assault on Huilliche Land Described (Chile) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (5).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English Abstract Note Carlos Orlando Lincoman, a member of the central council which represents 137 communities of Huilliche people discusses the encroachment of non-indigenous people on land that belongs to the Indigenous groups. Chile Chiloé Huilliche people Summer 1986 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/d1a5ae0c6a91f46fd01c9be01d2abce8.pdf 4c1bfaee8dfe0dac8bcba023b669b514 PDF Text Text ·c: "' 0 N "' E ~ " ~ .:< d Jose Kaiabi at the First Encounter of Indian People of Rondonia, Brazil. See Pages 2 and 3. South and Central American Indian Information Center P.O. Box 7550 Berkeley, CA 94 707 USA � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Back Cover Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1986 Zotero Title Back Cover Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (20).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/7095b8a363253fb8b50d214e66aeafd2.pdf 3927ebcb461299a57a1825e007113c64 PDF Text Text new federation and opened a cultural center in the eastern part of the island. In a recent letter, Roy Nigerian Harris, leader of the Young Maroons, says, "We seek support to assist our music, our poetry, our sports, our religion, and also our drama. At the moment, we are lacking funds, but our heritage is very rich, and there is a lot owed to us. We are seeking sponsors, who would have a lot to gain. If cultural tours with lectures could be arranged, great." The Maroons can be contacted at The Maroons Cultural Centre, 12 Harbour Street, Port Antonio, Jamaica, Xaymaca, WI. In the United States, I can be reached c/o 360 62nd Street, Oakland, CA 94618. Music of the Maroons is available on Folkways Records, 43 W. 61st St., N.Y., N.Y. 10023. -Randi Kristensen Caribs From Three Groups Meet In Dominica Throughout the Caribbean there is an increasing awareness of indigenous concerns. According to the newspaper /ere, Carib representatives from Belize, St. Vincent and Dominica met in the spring in Dominica and called for more governmental recognition of Carib culture and identity. Like the Maroons in Jamaica, Caribs are descended from Indians and Africans who banded together in resistance to colonial European society. Caribs living in Dominica maintain a local government Carib Council headed by the Carib Chief, who is elected directly by the people, according to tradition. However, the representative from St. Vincent at the conference spoke of the lack of such structures on his island and expressed concern about the disappearance of the culture of St. Vincent's estimated 5,600 Caribs. "We would like when the gap is filled and we are together as one people," he said. Another conference is planned on St. Vincent next year with the theme "Caribbean Indigenous Revival." . aon AOTEAROA leg its In June a delegation of seven Maori from Aotearoa (also known as New Zealand) traveled to the United States. They were hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area by Women of All Red Nations and the International Indian Treaty Council. Hinewhare Harawira of the Wailangi Action Committee told SAIIC: We have about 3.5 million people in Aotearoa and 300,000 are Maori. We are fighting for our independence. We don't now have control of our lands. And one thing we find important as a first step in our independence is the taking back of our lands. The way we want to do it is not by Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 15 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Caribs from Three Groups Meet in Dominica (Caribbean) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1986 Zotero Title Caribs from Three Groups Meet in Dominica (Caribbean) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (15).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/70ab77d1821d6802ed86b4c376a80bb0.pdf 036eb8eaf5c9a07efd01db7844ffa998 PDF Text Text ECUADOR CONFENIAE Denounces Land Seizures By Oil Companies The Confederation of Indian Nations in the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) has accused Occidental, Esso-Hispanoil, and Diamond Oil Companies from the United States, British Petroleum from England, and the Conoco-Opic consortium from the United States and Taiwan of moving into Indian lands with the approval of the Ecuadorian government. They have now become the largest threat to Indian communities. Esso-Hispanoil, one of the largest oil companies in the world, obtained 100,000 hectares of land which belongs to the Huarani (Aucas). British Petroleum also Shuar Indian of Ecuador. obtained 200,000 hectares of Quichua land. According to CONFENIAE, both companies have been granted the use of land which is riow being planted in African palm (see SAIIC Newsletter, Spring 1986). They say, "We have,been able to prove that all these transnational corporations work cooperatively. The oil companies make the roads which are then used by those who exploit the African palm, cut down the forests and make this wood available to the large lumber companies." ''The istory Of My Organization'' The following comments are part of an essay which won first prize in 1985 in a nationwide competition among Indian organizations in Ecuador. They originally appeared in La Bocina, the publication of the Ecuadorian Federation for Public Progress (Federaci6n Ecuatoriana de Populorum Progressio). Our unity taught us what our goals must be. Our organization is not only for building community centers, bridges, schools, warehouses, water systems, and cooperatives, but also to develop a vision of our future. Clearly one of our goals is to develop the material infrastructure of our community, because we have to improve our lives. But as an organization we must be leery of developmentalism. We can't concern ourselves solely with material work, because then we run the risk of exploiting others in the same situation we were before. At first we didn't understand this well and thought that by organizing ourselves we could do to other cultures what they have done to us. We lacked analysis and reflection. We always have to look to the future to see where our organization is going, to keep an eye on our goals, to avoid falling into the trap of developmentalism. Developmentalism brings along with it egoism, individualism, and materialism. It Page 8 Vol.2, no. 4. Summer, 1986 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource CONFENIAE Denounces Land Seizures by Oil Companies (Ecuador) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1986 Zotero Title CONFENIAE Denounces Land Seizures by Oil Companies (Ecuador) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (8).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English Abstract Note The Confederation of Indian Nations in the Ecuadorian Amazon expresses that the large companies who are exploiting their lands for oil have become the largest threat to Indian nations. Pages 8 Confederation of Indian Nations CONFENIAE Exploitation oil companies Summer 1986 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/090be1c4eaff4dee8d8799bbea884a13.pdf 8dac580485414512f08cc919f72ffc68 PDF Text Text sAHc NEWSLETTER So and Central American Indian Information Center (SAil C) Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7550, Berkeley, CA 94707 USA Office: 523 E. 14th St., Oakland, CA(415) 452-1235 Voi.21 No.4 Summer, 1986 Guatemalan Refugee: "We can't go back to militarized villages.'' See Page 11. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cover Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1986 Zotero Title Cover Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (1).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English Pages 1 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/5aa04ed581af94af01e75b794cb80be2.pdf 4bea9f5d491eb26b0da6140a6582b444 PDF Text Text brings poverty to the majority and takes from us our feeling for life, which is the most important thing there is. Organizations are not made for us. They must be created. Begin with your home. At home we have trust. Trust is the seed. In Otavalo Community Mariana Chuquin, a Quichua Indian from Otavalo, Ecuador, who is visiting in San Francisco, recently made the following comments on education in her community: For those of us living in rural communities, it's very hard to educate our children. It is important to us that there is good bi-lingual education that strengthens our culture and communities. But many children are needed in the family's effort to survive economically, so they can't attend school. And the government gives very little support to education in rural communities. Most children don't go beyond the fourth grade. In my community, Mariano Acosta, it is the community itself and the school teacher who work together to make an education possible for our children. The community organizes mingas (community work groups) to construct roads, the school building, and other community buildings. Sometimes we have to use our imagination to make educational equipment and materials. Every week we organize in mingas to improve our community, to continue forward each day for the future of our children. lnd Voters Major Factor In Elections The greatly increased political organization of Indian communities was cited as a major factor in the overwhelming rejection June 1 of a constitutional referendum proposed by Ecuador's conservative government, according to Juan Aulestia, Oxfam America program representative for South America. Speaking at a meeting jointly sponsored by SAIIC and Oxfam America in Berkeley on June 19, Juan said that the growing realization among Indian communities that they can be a majority of the electorate was one of the most impressive developments he observed during a recent trip to Ecuador, which is his native country. Juan said that the conservative government of President Le6n Febres Cordero has moved to undermine Indian political organizations by renewing government support for the Summer Institute of Linguistics, an evangelical organization ordered to leave Ecuador by a previous government under pressure from Indian / \' \ ) /' groups. The government has also created "ghost" organizations which it claims ':\) /y/"i~ I'""' represent Indian interests as a means of spreading disunity in Indian communities. \ Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 9 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Educational Efforts in Otavalo Community (Ecuador) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1986 Zotero Title Educational Efforts in Otavalo Community (Ecuador) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (9).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/1d1afa50bbc628a3b3a0f034f8f81c68.pdf 9685346b0b84cfbf6446cdb321642d66 PDF Text Text That is the life in community, which is our strength. The root of the violence that is occurring now in Peru extends back to the notion of private property, distinct from our traditional community-based way of life. Between 1982 and 1985 there were 7,000 dead and many more than 3,000 missing and presumed dead. Since January, 1986, there are dozens more dead and disappeared. The blame for these deaths is placed on the guerrilla group Sendero Luminoso, but the blame to a much larger extent is also placed on the armed forces of Peru. Sendero Luminoso consists of people who are adventurers and provokers of violence, who kill along with the armed forces. They kill children, old people, and women. This is not a true revolutionary movement. For this reason it is detested by Indian communities. Our organization has a position in the face of this situation. We feel this is genocide that is occurring, and it becomes institutionalized by the armed forces. The consequence of this genocide doesn't mean simply the physical end or disappearance of a person. It also has massive repercussions for the entire extended family, leaving thousands and thousands of orphans and hungry children, and thousands and thousands of mothers and women who go from place to place, to the cemeteries and jails, looking for their loved ones they have lost. You see, the consequences of these kinds of things ate not erased from our lives right away. While there is no complete solution, through SERPAJ we do a number of things. We have helped organize the struggle of the relatives of the disappeared in the Ayacucho region. Their organization, the Association of Relatives of the Kidnapped and Missing of Ayacucho (Asociaci6n de Familiares de los Secuestrados y Detenidos-Desaparacidos de Ayacucho), is part of the human rights department of SERPAJ. We also have dining halls in Ayacucho and Lima for the thousands of children who have been orphaned. This is done by the volunteer work of Peruvians and by the assistance of people throughout the world who are helping us. For more information about the work of SERPAJ, contact the Resource Center for Nonviolence, P.O. Box 2324, Santa Cruz, CA 95063. Human Rights Activist Among Missing In Peru Among the many people missing as a result of political violence in Peru is Guadalupe Ccallocunto Olano, secretary of the Association of Relatives of the Kidnapped and Missing (Asociaci6n de los Familiares de los Secuestrados y Detenidos-Desaparacidos), who was arrested in Lima on May 24. A few days earlier she wrote, "The situation in Peru is getting worse. We live in a state of anxiety and insecurity. We are losing hope with this government, but the struggle of our people and of the relatives gives birth to another hope. They have threatened me many times and yet I cannot live with my back turned while my people bleed. I believe that it is better to die struggling, shouting the truth. This is what gives me hope that justice will come. But this we will only achieve with the help of all those persons who are aware of the inequality which reigns in our country." As we go to press, reports from Lima describe a massacre by police of over 300 prisoners accused of subversive acts. According to official reports, three police died. Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 7 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Human Rights Activist Among Missing in Peru Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1986 Zotero Title Human Rights Activist Among Missing in Peru Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (7).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English Abstract Note This article is more or less a PSA advising that Guadalupe Ccallocunto Olano was still missing after his "arrest" in Peru. Pages 7 Guadalupe Ccallocunto Olano missing persons Peru Summer 1986 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/c3d554586ef7762fa11bafe1d34d953f.pdf 4bea9f5d491eb26b0da6140a6582b444 PDF Text Text brings poverty to the majority and takes from us our feeling for life, which is the most important thing there is. Organizations are not made for us. They must be created. Begin with your home. At home we have trust. Trust is the seed. In Otavalo Community Mariana Chuquin, a Quichua Indian from Otavalo, Ecuador, who is visiting in San Francisco, recently made the following comments on education in her community: For those of us living in rural communities, it's very hard to educate our children. It is important to us that there is good bi-lingual education that strengthens our culture and communities. But many children are needed in the family's effort to survive economically, so they can't attend school. And the government gives very little support to education in rural communities. Most children don't go beyond the fourth grade. In my community, Mariano Acosta, it is the community itself and the school teacher who work together to make an education possible for our children. The community organizes mingas (community work groups) to construct roads, the school building, and other community buildings. Sometimes we have to use our imagination to make educational equipment and materials. Every week we organize in mingas to improve our community, to continue forward each day for the future of our children. lnd Voters Major Factor In Elections The greatly increased political organization of Indian communities was cited as a major factor in the overwhelming rejection June 1 of a constitutional referendum proposed by Ecuador's conservative government, according to Juan Aulestia, Oxfam America program representative for South America. Speaking at a meeting jointly sponsored by SAIIC and Oxfam America in Berkeley on June 19, Juan said that the growing realization among Indian communities that they can be a majority of the electorate was one of the most impressive developments he observed during a recent trip to Ecuador, which is his native country. Juan said that the conservative government of President Le6n Febres Cordero has moved to undermine Indian political organizations by renewing government support for the Summer Institute of Linguistics, an evangelical organization ordered to leave Ecuador by a previous government under pressure from Indian / \' \ ) /' groups. The government has also created "ghost" organizations which it claims ':\) /y/"i~ I'""' represent Indian interests as a means of spreading disunity in Indian communities. \ Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 9 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indian Voters Major Factor in Elections (Ecuador) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1986 Zotero Title Indian Voters Major Factor in Elections (Ecuador) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (9).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/430b09b0b267581a419676f1ab55c3b1.pdf e53194f95907fe17196fdd3ea56fb0fe PDF Text Text new federation and opened a cultural center in the eastern part of the island. In a recent letter, Roy Nigerian Harris, leader of the Young Maroons, says, "We seek support to assist our music, our poetry, our sports, our religion, and also our drama. At the moment, we are lacking funds, but our heritage is very rich, and there is a lot owed to us. We are seeking sponsors, who would have a lot to gain. If cultural tours with lectures could be arranged, great." The Maroons can be contacted at The Maroons Cultural Centre, 12 Harbour Street, Port Antonio, Jamaica, Xaymaca, WI. In the United States, I can be reached c/o 360 62nd Street, Oakland, CA 94618. Music of the Maroons is available on Folkways Records, 43 W. 61st St., N.Y., N.Y. 10023. -Randi Kristensen Caribs From Three Groups Meet In Dominica Throughout the Caribbean there is an increasing awareness of indigenous concerns. According to the newspaper /ere, Carib representatives from Belize, St. Vincent and Dominica met in the spring in Dominica and called for more governmental recognition of Carib culture and identity. Like the Maroons in Jamaica, Caribs are descended from Indians and Africans who banded together in resistance to colonial European society. Caribs living in Dominica maintain a local government Carib Council headed by the Carib Chief, who is elected directly by the people, according to tradition. However, the representative from St. Vincent at the conference spoke of the lack of such structures on his island and expressed concern about the disappearance of the culture of St. Vincent's estimated 5,600 Caribs. "We would like when the gap is filled and we are together as one people," he said. Another conference is planned on St. Vincent next year with the theme "Caribbean Indigenous Revival." . aon AOTEAROA leg its In June a delegation of seven Maori from Aotearoa (also known as New Zealand) traveled to the United States. They were hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area by Women of All Red Nations and the International Indian Treaty Council. Hinewhare Harawira of the Wailangi Action Committee told SAIIC: We have about 3.5 million people in Aotearoa and 300,000 are Maori. We are fighting for our independence. We don't now have control of our lands. And one thing we find important as a first step in our independence is the taking back of our lands. The way we want to do it is not by Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 15 �asking the government, "Is it okay to buy the land or is it okay to put our homes on the land?" When we see the need to go back to our land, our people are just moving back and sitting on it, living in tents or busses or makeshift homes, starting to build up the land, and starting to survive on the little land that we have. Whenever there is a land occupation, the people are always supportive of it. And that is encouraging, because the people support it from the right wing to the left wing, from the old to the young. We are starting to take control of our lives. We now speak Maori to one another and to other people, and if they can't understand it, too bad. We have a pre-school, and only Maori is spoken there. At the school there are older brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, a whole fanu base. That is the extended family. It is only through that, through the nurturing of the child to go out into the so-called rat race, so that they can cope with it, that we can survive. We have our own spirituality. We can say a story and it has three or four meanings to it. We believe all the meanings are the right ones. We know that the people of the Pacific need to unite together. We all achieve our independence together. Nobody is free until everybody is free. To the people of South America, we say, "Be strong in your stance." The Seventh eneration Fund SAIIC has been working with Victoria Bomberry and the Seventh Generation Fund to find ways to bring together Indian people of North, Central, and South America. Victoria, who is also editor of Native Self-Sufficiency, spoke with SAIIC recently about Indian sovereignty. SAIIC: Could you tell us about the Seventh Generation Fund? What is the basis for the work you do? Victoria: The Seventh Generation Fund was founded in 1977 by a group of activists who were interested in moving from merely rhetorical speech about sovereignty toward making sovereignty a reality. In order to do that, there were several things that needed to be articulated. People here had a notion of sovereignty and we started working on all the areas that make a people sovereign. To be sovereign, a nation needs to have an economic system. It needs to have a shared culture and language. It needs to have a land base, and it needs to have a people who are tied together by those common bonds. We began thinking about ways we could move these things to reality on reservations throughout North America. SAIIC: What kinds of projects have you been doing to make these kinds of changes? Victoria: We've worked in several different areas. We work with land and natural resources protection. We work in the area of economic development to find ways that are culturally benign and environmentally protective and to develop economies that are selfsustaining. For example, we have worked with several Navajo communities to develop an agricultural system based on traditional foods, and branching out to develop crops that can be sold in the market place for a little bit of cash income. Page 16 Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maori Delegation Visits United States (Aotearoa) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1986 Zotero Title Maori Delegation Visits United States (Aotearoa) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (15-16).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English