1 12 27 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/45c7ac39e3ad896833b5a0390373717a.pdf 46a85127537a66770e3178372f250807 PDF Text Text Education is one of the most important issues facing Indian communities everywhere in South and Central America. The young must be educated in a way which preserves the culture of their ancestors, and the whole community must learn together how to confront the challenges of non-Indian society. The following statements offer insights on a range of educational concerns in Indian communities. "The ngs That Are Important Learn'' The things that we think are important to learn about now are addition; punctuation; the comma; the tilde; the vowels; the difference between s and c; between ja, xa, and cha; the difference between ga, ge, gi, and gua, gue, gui; the sounds of que, qui, ca, co, cu, lha, lhe, lhi, lho, lhu; the letters of the alphabet, the Portuguese language of Brazil, to communicate with others, to know what it means, to learn to read and write. See, we already have suffered very much. We want to study in order to stop being slaves, so that whites are not always on top of Indian people. We are also people of this round fruit, breathing in this air that protects our bodies, drinking water of the river mixed with the juices of the forest. We live in the light of the day priceless before the sun. The moon comes, the stars, from 6 to number 12. 6x2= 12x2=24 hours. We exist before the sweet flower that gives strength to all. We want to know what the government means, the military police. We want to know about the promises of FUNAI [the bureau of Indian affairs]. We want not only to learn, but to know how to make our school work with Indian teachers. We study to learn how to give value to our land, to know how to live on it with our people who have been massacred with rifles, with all 10 fingers. We are also children of this earth. We forgive what has been done to us. Long ago we were millions of Indians. We decreased. Now we are few. We don't want our race to end, because we are children of the Father. To learn the hours of the clock. To know the price of merchandise in the city, to defend us from captivity in the hands of the hurricane. To study serves us to know the measure of work, to learn how to talk to you. The school can help us organize our cooperative. To teach the children and the adults to learn how to find the price of the materials, to sell our products at a normal price, to learn how to count 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, +, x, -. To make agreements with the rubber tappers, the squatters, with the Indian leaders. To know how to use drugs from the drugstore to cure sick people, to learn how to give injections and what pills to take. To know how to sell what we produce and how to buy things from the owner of the market for our cooperative in the forest, administered by us Indians. With our school at our side, teaching the ones that are just being born, the others won't steal from us anymore. We Indians live in this world also. We have arms to hold with, legs to walk the earth. We have bellies to feed, heads to learn, eyes to see the people in this land and the light of our world, little round clarity. -Osair Sales-Sia, Kaxinaua Indian from Acre, Brazil Page 12 Vol. 3, no. 2. Winter, 1987. � 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. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1987) Zotero Language English 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 "The Things that are Important to Learn" 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 Winter 1987 Zotero Title "The Things that are Important to Learn" Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 2 (12).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 Language English Pages 12 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 3 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/1ec97e91898c7f51359daa4f3bb16e5f.pdf 5fdce725d82f197bfdc626fbc262ac37 PDF Text Text "We Have An Educational System" The educational system that Indian people had before the Spanish came still exists today. It is an education for life that is lived daily through work, through example, through responsibility, and in the sustained identity of our people. We Indians are conscious that we have to educate the representatives of the government, especially those charged with what they call "informal education." We also have to educate our own teachers, many of whom are Indian, but who are now alienated from their identity as Indians. We expect a difficult task of reorienting many people's thinking. At the same time, we must systematize our own educational processes and establish guidelines. Then we have to think about modifying the existing educational system, starting from the very root, recognizing from the beginning the multinational, multilingual, and multicultural character of Peru. It is also necessary to have a form of education that rescues the knowledge of our elders, which is unfortunately now being lost as a result of formal education. The knowledge which our elders gained through thousands of years is now going to the grave with them. We must remember that this knowledge serves all of humanity if we keep it alive. We need to reform the educational institutions, the educational infrastructure, and the educational process. All of this is possible and necessary if we are going to thoroughly regain our form of Indian education, our identity, our personality, and to demonstrate that Western culture is not the only culture, or the best one for us. The work and the thoughts of our ancestors are an example for us all. -Published recently in Pueblo Indio (Av. Jose de Canterac 373,Jesus Maria, Lima 11, Peru), Vol. 2, no. 5, 1986. Indian Educational Priorities in Eastern Bolivia e The need for a recognition on the part of the national government that Indian cultures are a living expression of our people. e The need to maintain the cultural values of Indian people, recognizing that cultural identity is fundamental to the socio-economic development of peoples and communities. e The need for bilingual and bicultural education in the schools. e The need for training of Indian youth in technical skills in agriculture and stock raising, as veterinarians, as accountants for the consumer cooperative, as journalists, and as primary and secondary school teachers. • In 1987 CIDOB will support the training of three youth in agronomy, medicine, and veterinary medicine. e CIDOB supports the work of general education and literacy training as a means of raising consciousness, including the full participation of community members in this effort. CIDOB also recognizes the importance of strengthening traditional Indian organizations, structures, and processes. -Issued by the Indian Federation of Eastern Bolivia (CIDOB), November, 1986. Vol. 3, no. 2. Winter, 1987. Page 13 � 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. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1987) Zotero Language English 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 "We Have an Educational System" 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 Winter 1987 Zotero Title "We Have an Educational System" Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 2 (13).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 Language English Pages 13 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 3 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/72251cc551ed7c70523f5e3d52c6cffa.pdf c6776357cd4ceb3e010691781f973b5f PDF Text Text azon Leaders World Ban President Three leaders from the Coordinating Committee of the Indian People of the Amazon Basin (La Coordinadora) met with the president of the World Bank in Washington, D.C., in December to discuss Indian objections to economic development projects financed by the bank. Evaristo Nugkuag (Aguaruna Nation), president of La Coordinadora and of the InterEthnic Development Association of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP); Jose Narciso Jamijoy (Kamsa Nation), secretary of the National Indian Organization of Colombia (ONIC); and Jose Uranavi (Huarayo Nation), president of the Indian Federation of Eastern Bolivia (CIDOB), also met with officials of the Inter-American Development Bank and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Before arriving in Washington, the group traveled to Sweden, where Evaristo was presented with the Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the Progressive Alternative Nobel Prize. On accepting the award, Evaristo affirmed that, "This award is not just for me, but for the entire organization and for all my Indian brothers and sisters in the Amazon region." Lobbying major institutions which finance development projects in the Amazon is part of a larger strategy by Indian people to affirm their right to land, self-determination, and life itself. Before the arrival of the first Europeans in the early 1500's, there were at least six million Indian people living in the Amazon basin. Disease, massacres, slave raiding, and the undermining of the environment on which Indian cultures depend have resulted in a drastic reduction in Indian population. In this century alone, 90 groups have disappeared, and today fewer than a million Indian people live in the region. Evaristo said in Washington that La Coordinadora has been formed "to speak out about our situation, to get in touch with the national governments where we are located, and to keep close contact among Indian nations of the different countries in order to get to know specific problems better, and in that way to help find favorable solutions." Although many people from outside South America associate the Amazon primarily with Brazil, significant areas of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia also lie within the Amazon basin. In addition to AIDESEP, ONIC, and CIDOB, the Union of Indian Nations (UNI) of Brazil also participates in La Coordinadora. During the meetings in Washington, the three Indian leaders spoke about the devastating impacts of large-scale economic development projects on Indian land. They specifically identified the PichiPalcazu, Alto Mayo, and Madre de Dios projects in Peru and the Grande Carajas and Polonoroeste projects in Brazil. Evaristo said, "For example, there are projects financed by the World Bank or USAID in which a road is constructed. This road brings very negative consequences for Indians since we ourselves did not request it, and since we know that the Page2 Vol. 3, no. 2. Winter, 1987. �.. - , - ~ road, once constructed, gives tremendous economic benefit to those who are financing it and who have capital. We Indians are not the ones who derive benefit from this road because we have no way to exploit the natural resources or to transport them to urban centers in a way that even remotely benefits us. Those who benefit are the companies that have extensive capital to bring in industrial products via this road to the Indian communities, and, in return, take from our area the natural resources, such as timber. So as they advance into the rainforest with the road, they carry destruction with them. The companies and the individuals that are interested in exploitation only come here for a short time, taking advantage of the timber, or exploiting anything they can. When they are finished, they return to where they live, and all of us Indians are left for the rest of our lives without resources, because for us resources are the animals, the birds, the river and all the other beings that make up the natural world. "These development projects have a profound effect on the ecological equilibrium, and the entire environment is left contaminated. For example, if they begin to drill for oil, the rivers become contaminated and the fish die, and the fish are a source of food that we Indians have always consumed. Right now the animals are scarce, and, of course, people become sick. All of this results from the construction of the road into the area. Those are the worries that we communicated to the Bank." The Indian leaders delivered a letter to the World Bank which requested the Bank's action of the following points: • "That the World Bank recognize the existence of Indian communities in the areas of development projects which the Bank finances. • "That the World Bank establish direct contact with Indian organizations through the organizations' own representatives. • "That the World Bank consider the direct and active participation of Indians elected for that purpose by their organizations in the planning and execution of projects financed by the Bank in areas where there are Indian people. • "That the World Bank keep us informed, through our organizations, regarding the Bank's plans for the financing of new projects and regarding the projects which are in progress in regions where there are Indian people. • "That the World Bank clarify for us its policy regarding Indian people and provide us with a written copy of this policy. Here we refer to the Bank's publication Tribal People and Economic Development and also to the Bank's Operational Manual No. 2.34." The meetings in Washington were arranged by Oxfam America, Survival International, and the Right Livelihood Foundation. Vol. 3, no. 2.Winter, 1987. Page3 � 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. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1987) Zotero Language English 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 Amazonian Leaders Meet World Bank President 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 Winter 1987 Zotero Title Amazonian Leaders Meet World Bank President Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 2 (2-3).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 Language English Pages 2-3 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 3 Abstract Note Three leaders from the Coordinating Committee of Indian People of the Amazon Basin met the President of the World Bank in Washington D.C. in December 1987. Meeting President of World bank Washington D.C. Winter 1987 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/ed4308aa5c498149fe15289002ca9ef0.pdf 650aaa693e4b29f3d9c9c876244ed59b PDF Text Text BRAZIL Ava-Guarani Write President k Hon. Barber Conable President of the World Bank Dear Sir, We are from the Ava-Guarani community in the Ocoi native area, in the municipality of Sao Miguel do Iguacu, state of Parana, BraziL We want to tell you about our suffering and our struggle. We used to live in an area of about 3,750 acres, .bounded on the west by the Parana. River, on the east by the Santa Helena/Sa11ia Terezinha road, on the north by the Ocoi River, and on the south by the Jacutinga River. Our area was all forest. In the Ocoi-Jacutinga area we were more than 100 families numbering oyer 500 people, since the families were very large. Our la11d w~s going to be flooded by the Itaipu dam. Then the Itaipu people told FUNAI [Brazil's.bureau of Indian affairs] that there wereindiap~ in the area that was to be flooded. FliNAic~ent an anthropologist, but he said that th~re were no Indians in the area, only mesti{ds'.[people of mixed blood] and Paraguayans. This was not true because we were certainly there.. . · Theyniade various offers of land to us. The first was 70 acres. The second proposal was 420 acres and the third was 560 acres. We did not accept any of these and we also refused the fourth and last offer, which was 625 acres. The Itaipu people gave us a deed for 625 acres, although on the map they made on July 31, .1982, only 575 acres are shown. We discovered this map two months ago. We did not agree to the 625 acres, but then the Itaipu people began to pressure us and frighten us. They gave us three days to leave. We did not want. to leave our land of 3, 750 acres for an area of 625 acres. · . Then the Itaipu reservoir began to fill up and there was nothing we could do but leave. We arrived:cmthis land in 1982, after a difficult struggle to obtain outrights. Now we are 35 families ¢()~~}sting of 14 7 people. We have never forgotten our. Jan<:l and we are always .· .. · · making clairris to the Itaipu people. Our ne\y)and is slowly being washed away. The strong winds are dJ:·iving the water from the new lake against the land and eroding it from below, and the trees are falling because their roots are being undermined. When we arrived in this new area, it was already being invaded by neighboring settlers. The settlers did not respect the Indians. They came in with their machines, tore down the forest and the survey markers, and took away everything that the Itaipu people had put here. The settlers said they did this because<the Itaipu people had not compensatedthem. We are peaceful Indians who don't want to fight with our neighbors. Along the edge of the Itaipu lake there is a lot of rotting wood which is infested with animals and insects, including mosquitos. We are not u~ed to living on the edge of a lake. In summertime the lake becomes very warm and bot}l. a&ults and children in the Ocoi native area have caught malaria because of the lake. At the beginning of May, 27 adults and 16 children between the ages of.nine months and 12 years old had malaria. We are not used to fakingwater from the lake. We are only used to taking water from the rivers that the Creator. put there for us to use. In this land there are now no pure rivers and our water is full of malaria and insects. All the water along the edge of the lake is full of Page6 Vol. 3, no. 2.Winter, 1987. �---------------------- poison because the settlers washed a tank of insecticide in the lake. When it rains the poison that the settlers use on their plantations passes across our land and goes into the lake, and this causes a lot of illness. We can't get away from the edge of the Itaipu lake because our land is very narrow. Next to our land are 420 acres that Itaipu owns. We want Itaipu to compensate us for the rest of the land they stole from us. We had about 3, 7 50 acres of land, with forest, fish, and game, instead of 575 acres with poison and malaria. God put us in the world to live in peace as brothers. The whites want to kill the Indians rather than be brothers with them, but we want to live in brotherhood with everyone. Now we have nothing and there are hardly any Indians left because in many parts "Are you aware you are an obstacle to progress?" of Brazil white men and foreigners have killed Indians with bombs and machine guns and have poisoned Indian areas. Can it be that you are not aware of this crime that must be resolved? You loaned money to the Itaipu people so that they could hurt us and the poor whites in the same situation as we are. Itaipu has done very great damage here, but you loaned money for this, and to FUNAI so that it could pay people to shoot the Indians, because we have enormous rights. Signed by the chief of the Ava-Guarani community, followed by the signatures and fingerprints of 58 others. Yanomami Land Claims Recognized f The Yanomami Indian people of northern Brazil have received official recognition of their claims to land through a presidential decree which establishes the Y anomami Indian Park near Brazil's border with Venezuela. The Yanomami, who number 10,000 to 12,000 people, are the largest Indian nation in Brazil still maintaining a traditional way of life. The decree was announced in the midst of controversy over a proposal by the Brazilian military to occupy the remote northern frontier of the Amazon region with military bases and air strips. According to the Union of Indian Nations (UNI), the project would directly affect 50,000 Indian people from 51 groups now living in the rainforest, including the Yanomami, Tukano, Baniwa, Uanano, and others. Reports indicate that the decree establishing the Yanomami Indian Park includes provisions for a strip 60 kilometers wide along the Venezuelan border which would be designated an "Area of Environmental Protection" and used to accommodate the military plan. Critics of the plan, which the military describes as "a joint project of economic development and national security," argue that its primary motivation is exploitation of the tin, aluminum, uranium, and other mineral resources thought to be buried beneath the dense Amazonian rainforests. Vol. 3, no. 2. Winter, 1987. Page7 � 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. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1987) Zotero Language English 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 Ava-Guarani Write President of World Bank (Brazil) 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 Winter 1987 Zotero Title Ava-Guarani Write President of World Bank (Brazil) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 2 (6-7).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 Language English Pages 6-7 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 3 Abstract Note Copy of a letter from the Ava-Guarani community to the President of the World Bank. Ava-Guarani Brazil letter Winter 1987 World Bank https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/b520647d94edeba1361ec14233c228e0.pdf 182300fc9b064769e7efaa4c51be0a37 PDF Text Text .~ :J 01 <( ri co co "' @ .8 0 J:: 0.. Three Indian leaders from the Amazon region meet with the president of the World Bank in Washington. See pages 2-5. � 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. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1987) Zotero Language English 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 Winter 1987 Zotero Title Back Cover Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 2 (20).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 Language English Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 3 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/bbd7950d350eb91e545eed93c9517107.pdf b461020abf0f981161e359e663bcc01c PDF Text Text MEXICO Community In Oaxaca Struggles For Land The Zapotec community of San Juan Jaltepec in Oaxaca has appealed for international assistance to maintain their community land, which the Mexican government has given to other parties. The community, which currently numbers more than 2,000 people, has lived on the land for hundreds of years and holds a legal title through a Spanish land grant dated 1770. Several decades ago a portion of the land was set aside for the community of Santa Maria Yaveo, which now includes about 380 people. In 1975, Santa Maria Yaveo asked the Mexican government for more land, and the government surveyed San Juan Jaltepec's land with the intention of dividing it between the communities. Efforts to resist the survey led to a conflict in which three people were killed and nine wounded by government police on September 3, 1979. Since then some of the land in dispute has been obtained by ranchers from other states, and the general situation remains very tense. When members of the San Juan Jaltepec community attempt to cultivate the land, the new "owners" complain to the police, who evict them. San Juan claims the land was sold illegally through corrupt judicial proceedings and is prepared to defend the land with arms. CARIBBEAN Meeting Planned For August In Dominican Republic The Inter-American Indian Institute, located in Mexico City, and the Museo del Hombre Dominicano (Museum of Dominican People), located in the Dominican Republic, are organizing the First Meeting of Caribbean Indians, to be held August 10-14, 1987, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The goal of the meeting will be to bring together Indian people, government representatives, academics, and non-governmental organizations to establish relationships among these groups and to discuss prospects for the future of Indian concerns. For more information, contact Alejandro Camino, Project Director, Inter-American Indian Institute, Insurgentes sur 1690, Mexico, D.F., Mexico. OAS Challenged on Neglect of Indian Rights In the fall of 1985 the Inter-American Indian Institute, which functions under the auspices of the Organization of American States (OAS), held its Ninth Congress in Santa Fe, New Mexico (see SAIIC Newsletter, Winter, 1986, pp. 2-5). Under pressure from Indian leaders who had been invited to the Congress for the first time, the Institute agreed that all future OAS reports on human rights should include a section on Indian communities. However, in the recently completed draft of the annual report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, there is no mention of Indian rights. SAIIC encourages Indian organizations in North, Central, and South America to write letters to the general secretary of the OAS urging the acknowledgement of Resolution 16 from the Santa Fe Conference in all statements on human rights. Letters should be sent to OAS Commission on Human Rights, 17th and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. 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Title A name given to the resource Community in Oaxaca Struggles for Land (Mexico) 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 Winter 1987 Zotero Title Community in Oaxaca Struggles for Land (Mexico) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 2 (16).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 Language English Pages 16 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 3 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/beb94c31b59dee02e42150307dae6c0d.pdf 1411dc6d0a80e578a39394fade4fd7c1 PDF Text Text CON FEN Center Is Burned In Puyo The newly-constructed administrative and training center of the Confederation of Indian Nations in the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) in the province of Puyo was burned to the ground on the night of November 20, 1986. The local CONFENIAE president blamed the fire on arson. The building had been built by mingas, traditional community work brigades, over the preceding five years by members of the Shuar, Quichua, Huaorani, and Achuara nations. The inauguration of the center had been planned for December 15, 1986. No injuries were reported in the fire. Cristobal Naikiai, secretary of CONFENIAE, said that enemies of Indian people burned the center and that police detained some suspects but released them immediately. CONFENIAE has a long history of opposing government projects which encourage multinational corporations to occupy and exploit vast areas of traditional Indian land in the Amazon areas of Ecuador. A spokesman for the Ecuadorian government stated that, "The fire was intentional and started by the Indians themselves to discredit the government." PERU Two Faces Of Peasant Patrols A new system of justice is emerging in the mountains of northern Peru that is taking the place of police and judicial officials. Rondas campesinas, or peasant patrols, are serving a rapidly growing number of villages as both self-appointed police forces and court systems. Village men who volunteer to patrol one night a week or month apprehend wrongdoers and file charges with an elected steering committee which holds trials involving the entire community. Since their grassroots beginnings in the department of Cajamarca in 1976, rondas campesinas have been organized in almost every northern district, revealing the profound dissatisfaction Peruvian Indian peasants feel toward the existing justice system. In southern Peru, where the war between government forces and Sendero Luminoso guerrillas continues, the army has introduced its own version of rondas campesinas in key villages. But like Guatemala's "civil defense patrols," these government-supported patrols act only against those the army identifies as criminals or subversives. According to a report from the human rights group Americas Watch, entire communities have been moved by the military and forced to form civil defense patrols to defend territory against the guerrillas. Americas Watch has urged the government of Alan Garcia to stop using the patrols as a counter-insurgency strategy. -Robin Kirk, in Latinamerica Press, Nov. 1986. - Vol. 3, no. 2. Winter, 1987. Page9 0 .Q 0 __J � 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. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1987) Zotero Language English 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 Center is Burned in Puyo, 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 Winter 1987 Zotero Title CONFENIAE Center is Burned in Puyo, Ecuador Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 2 (9).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 Language English Pages 9 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 3 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/f55c77bb5977c83a56da1dfe4b66a5dd.pdf faed303df186ed219aa9fe6844c5aedc PDF Text Text sAlle NEWSLETTER Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7550, BerkeleYt (A 94707 USA Office: 523 E. 14th St., Oakland, (A (415) 452-1235 ' Voi.3,No.2 Winter, 1987 0 ' .0 0 ...J ui '(9 ~ .c a_ � 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. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1987) Zotero Language English 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 Winter 1987 Zotero Title Cover Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 2 (1).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 Language English Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 3 Abstract Note Cover Pages 1 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/a5386064c98bb6af52b411c916feccbc.pdf c767ad868230dffaf9680d5befb70b12 PDF Text Text This issue of the SAIIC Newsletter is dedicated to Brother Bill Wahpepah, who died January 2 in Oakland, California, at 49 years of age. As a friend said at the time of Bill's death, "His life was a celebration of the primacy of the creator and of the traditional ceremonial Indian ways. Around the world people will carry on Bill's work with the strength and wisdom he gave everyone." A leader of the American Indian Movement and a supporter of SAIIC, Bill was one of the people most interested in fostering brotherhood and solidarity among all Indian people of the hemisphere. The following message from Bill was tape recorded in July, 1982, and carried to Peru by a friend, where it was played to a number of Indian groups and at meetings where replies were taped and sent back to Bill. "Greetings, my relatives. My name is Bill Wahpepah and I am Kickapoo/Sauk-Fox Indian from North America. I want to tell you that we are very concerned about all of our people in this hemisphere and we want to know from you if you would communicate with us. There are stories among our people that before the colonizers came and long before the Europeans caine to us, our people had all these good things to communicate with each other. And these many different ways to pray and protect this earth and respect this earth were commonplace to us. "We want to reach out to that commonality so that we can grow and we can make our people live. We are urging you to communicate with us, to participate in a movement to join all Red People of this hemisphere so that we can contribute to the rest of the world our philosophy of our Mother the Earth, and to bring about peace on the Earth, and to make a good future for all of our children. Now we can begin communication, and we can rediscover the family ties that we once knew so many centuries ago. I thank you for your time, and we send you greetings of solidarity and love from peoples from North America. And we look forward to visiting with you in person, and singing songs, and dancing together with you, and praying with you." SAIIC promotes exchange and unity among all Indians of the Americas by making information available and by making increased direct communication possible. SAIIC also makes South and Central American Indian issues and culture known to the general English-speaking public. The Newsletter, one of SAIIC's projects, reflects indigenous perspectives of the Americas. Nilo Cayuqueo, SAIIC Coordinator, and Susan Lobo, Publications Editor Page 18 Vol. 3, no. 2. Winter, 1987. � 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. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1987) Zotero Language English 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 Dedication and Statement of Mission 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 Winter 1987 Zotero Title Dedication and Statement of Mission Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 2 (18).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 Language English Pages 18 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 3 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/4c38153444e413c55643672f4c196fe0.pdf c99daadacd8d7f8488701f12dfe1d87e PDF Text Text Rigoberta Menchu, Quiche from Guatemala, is a member of the Peasant Unity Committee (CUC, Comite de Unidad Campesina). She narrated the film When the Mountains Tremble and has written the book I, Rigoberta Menchu. In December, 1986, she made the following comments on SAIIC's radio program, South and Central American Indian Update, which is heard in northern California on KPFA, 94.1 FM, at 8:00 p.m. the third and fourth Fridays of each month. After 33 years of military rule in Guatemala, we now have an elected civilian president. We had hoped before the election to bring about concrete changes for the Indian people, who in Guatemala are over 75 per cent of the population. Now, after the civilian government has been in power for nine months, the situation continues to be very complicated. The killings and the disappearances have not stopped. The numbers may not be as high, but the fact remains that there are continuing abuses of human lives. This is the principal concern. Now Guatemala is living through more profound misery than we ever experienced in the past because of the destruction of the land and the massacres. There are now thousands of people displaced from their land who are dependent on their land for their survival. Our cultural roots as well as our material survival are based on the cultivation or corn and beans. Up to this point, none of our demands, even the most fundamental, have received any response from the Guatemalan government. There has been no clarification of the fate of the more than 36,000 who have disappeared, nor has the government identified or punished those responsible for the disappearances. And there is tremendous frustration among the Indian Y88, I find myself alone everyday life confronts me with the reality of mourning in my soul the fibers of my being broken and torn from the injustice the struggle that springs from the blood of innocent people the collective martyrdom of our journey the shadows that amass on our journey the ringing of the bells of our being. Yes, I am alone but I feel the strength of all the widowed women of the world protesting for men for women for children the violation of the right to live. -Calixta Canec, Cakchiquel Maya, refugee in California Page14 Vol. 3, no. 2. Winter, 1987. �people because hunger and misery remain unchanged. We understand also very well the causes of the struggles of our brother and sister Indians of this country and the Indians of other continents. We have a great historic responsibility to unite so that one day our future generations will be able to live in peace. And I can tell the people of the United States that you also have a part of the responsibility in our struggle, since much of your salary goes to finance this war being carried out in our communities. This struggle of Indian people is not just a struggle of words. It is like the way we grow our corn. First we cultivate the soil, then we find the right seeds, and then we care for the plants so that they bear fruit. Our struggle goes step by step, looking forward to making a change. Radio Show res Guatemalan I 1ans Peggy Berryhill (Muskogee Nation) recently completed a radio documentary on the crisis facing Indians in Guatemala which will air in March on "Horizons," which is broadcast on many public radio stations. She made the following comments to SAIIC about her work. I've found that radio is a tool to help communicate new or little-known information about Indian people, especially contemporary issues. It is a way to combat stereotypes and to empower people. It is important to get Indians and non-Indians thinking beyond their isolated problems, whether in Oakland, Juneau, or in Guatemala. We have to understand that there are connections. SAIIC: What motivated you to do for more information contact: Guatemalan Research Project a radio documentary on Guatemala? Seventh Generation Fund, P.O. Box 10, Forestville, CA I think Guatemala is one of the [707] 887-1559 least reported stories. Nobody has been aware of what is going on there. I had a dream. I was in a hilly community in a pickup truck with another journalist, being strafed by an army helicopter. They were trying to drive us to a safe house. Once we got to the house, the army suddenly came in and killed everyone. I woke up. My heart was beating, and I was terrified. The dream was so vivid, so frightening. Where was this army from? I didn't know then what this dream meant. In doing the interviews with the Guatemalan refugees for the documentary, I saw where the dream had come from. During the interviews, I heard this same story. The dream was a reality in Guatemala and someone wanted that known. It was someone's dying wish to have their story told, and it came to me. To me radio is the Indian story-telling tradition, and this dream was the vehicle. And if I'm the vehicle for this dream, then the story's being told. Vol. 3, no. 2.Winter, 1987. 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. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1987) Zotero Language English 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 Few Gains Under New Government (Guatemala) 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 Winter 1987 Zotero Title Few Gains Under New Government (Guatemala) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 2 (14-15).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 Language English Pages 14-15 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 3 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/936f91ea9b3f0f61ba1d6786edc8dbce.pdf bd74fa19a7cdd7b80f8f1f304c117918 PDF Text Text COLOMBIA Leader Killed, Comm ity Expelled A leader of the Indian community of San Andres de Sotavento in Sucre was kidnapped, tortured, and killed and the entire community was expelled from its ancestral land in early November. According to Amnesty International, the community was invaded October 30, 1986 by about 20 local police led by a mestizo landowner who is making a claim on the Indian land. All community crops and houses were destroyed and 11 people were arrested. The next day Pedro Hernandez, a member of the community council, was seized by four policemen and the same mestizo landowner. His body was found with signs of burning and torture on November 2. On November 7 the entire community was evicted from its land, which was held communally. ECUADOR First Congress of Indian Nations Meets The First Congress of Indian Nations, organized by the Confederation of Indian Nations of Ecuador (CONACNIE, Confederaci6n de Nacionalidades Indigenas del Ecuador), was held November 13-16, 1986. Over 600 delegates representing the Siona, Quichua, Huaorani, Shuar, Cofan, Chachi, Tsachila, Secoya, Achuara, and Awa nations attended the congress. The opening session was held in the Senate chambers of the national legislature in Quito "in recognition by the national congress that the majority of the population of Ecuador is Indian." Later sessions were held at the Campamento Nueva Vida in Pichincha province. The main topics discussed at the congress were Indian rights to land, self-determination, education, and a distinct culture. Manuel Imbaquingo, president of CONACNIE, stated at the opening of the event that, "This congress is being held at a historic moment when Indian people are facing anti-Indian policies by a government which neglects the most basicrights of our people, including land and life." He said, "The people of Ecuador must decide between freedom and oppression, between life and death, as a result of the dictatorial and anti-popular policies of President Leon Febres Cordero." When I get old I'll die. All of us old people will die. But I want my son's child, with the Creator's help, to also make canoes like this and pull them like we are today. These trees will all be gone if this company they call Plywood comes. We can't allow that to happen. If some people sign away our rights, then we will be thrown out like others down the river, and it will be the beginning of the end. We want the right to live now like we lived before. -Runa hunter in Ecuadorian rainforest PageS Vol. 3, no. 2.Winter, 1987. � 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. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1987) Zotero Language English 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 First Congress of Indian Nations Meets (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 Winter 1987 Zotero Title First Congress of Indian Nations Meets (Ecuador) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 2 (8).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 Language English Pages 8 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 3 Abstract Note The First Congress of Indian Nations was held November 13-16th, 1986. Achuara Indians Awa Indians Chachi Indians Cofan Indians First Congress of Indian Nations Huaorani Indians November 1986 Quichua Indians Secoya Indians Shuar Indians Siona Indians Tsachila Indians Winter 1987 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/a5005ec9e15811e4cabcba065439c0d2.pdf 5fdce725d82f197bfdc626fbc262ac37 PDF Text Text "We Have An Educational System" The educational system that Indian people had before the Spanish came still exists today. It is an education for life that is lived daily through work, through example, through responsibility, and in the sustained identity of our people. We Indians are conscious that we have to educate the representatives of the government, especially those charged with what they call "informal education." We also have to educate our own teachers, many of whom are Indian, but who are now alienated from their identity as Indians. We expect a difficult task of reorienting many people's thinking. At the same time, we must systematize our own educational processes and establish guidelines. Then we have to think about modifying the existing educational system, starting from the very root, recognizing from the beginning the multinational, multilingual, and multicultural character of Peru. It is also necessary to have a form of education that rescues the knowledge of our elders, which is unfortunately now being lost as a result of formal education. The knowledge which our elders gained through thousands of years is now going to the grave with them. We must remember that this knowledge serves all of humanity if we keep it alive. We need to reform the educational institutions, the educational infrastructure, and the educational process. All of this is possible and necessary if we are going to thoroughly regain our form of Indian education, our identity, our personality, and to demonstrate that Western culture is not the only culture, or the best one for us. The work and the thoughts of our ancestors are an example for us all. -Published recently in Pueblo Indio (Av. Jose de Canterac 373,Jesus Maria, Lima 11, Peru), Vol. 2, no. 5, 1986. Indian Educational Priorities in Eastern Bolivia e The need for a recognition on the part of the national government that Indian cultures are a living expression of our people. e The need to maintain the cultural values of Indian people, recognizing that cultural identity is fundamental to the socio-economic development of peoples and communities. e The need for bilingual and bicultural education in the schools. e The need for training of Indian youth in technical skills in agriculture and stock raising, as veterinarians, as accountants for the consumer cooperative, as journalists, and as primary and secondary school teachers. • In 1987 CIDOB will support the training of three youth in agronomy, medicine, and veterinary medicine. e CIDOB supports the work of general education and literacy training as a means of raising consciousness, including the full participation of community members in this effort. CIDOB also recognizes the importance of strengthening traditional Indian organizations, structures, and processes. -Issued by the Indian Federation of Eastern Bolivia (CIDOB), November, 1986. Vol. 3, no. 2. Winter, 1987. Page 13 � 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. 3, No. 2 (Winter 1987) Zotero Language English 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 Educational Priorities in Eastern Bolivia 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 Winter 1987 Zotero Title Indian Educational Priorities in Eastern Bolivia Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 2 (13).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 Language English Pages 13 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 3