2 12 1190 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. 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 "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/9057ae59143b6d50871701019eeb5827.pdf 6e6a2c8a1a11e26b50cc452abd5c2b37 PDF Text Text SAIIC hosts "The South American Indian Update" the first Friday of each month at 8:00P.M. on KPFA (FM94.1) in northern California. The program includes interviews with South American Indians regarding current issues, an update of recent events in South America from an Indian perspective, and traditional and modern South American Indian music. Listen in. If you are beyond our range, you can order a cassette of the latest program from SAIIC by sending $8.00 to: American Friends Service Committee/ SAIIC, P.O. Box 7550, Berkeley, CA 94707. INTERVIEW WITH NILDA CALLANAUPA, QUECHUA FROM PERU SAIIC was fortunate to be visited by Nilda Callanaupa, who was in the United States to participate in the Handweavers Conference held in San Jose. Nilda is a weaver from the community of Chincheros, about a day's walk from the city of Cuzco, Peru. SAIIC: Do the people in your community use what is woven there? NILDA: Yes, especially the mantas. The women use them all the time. Women use them daily. One wraps the baby; one is to keep you warm from the cold mountain air; and one is for Agnes Tso, Navajo weaver and teacher carrying the baby or other things on your back. So women use three mantas every day. And each at Hintil Kuu Co, the American Indian woman weaves her clothing. pre-school in Oakland, with Nilda Callanaupa (right). Photo: S. Lobo SAIIC: Can you tell us about your family? NILDA: My father was a peon on a hacienda. He had a small piece of land, but he had to work for a hacienda to be allowed to work his land. When Velasco became president in 1968, he reduced the size of some of the haciendas, and my father was fortunate to be freed of this system. He tells many things He suffered terribly because of the hacienda owners. For about life on the haciendas. example, my father had to work from six in the morning until six in the evening, and it was two hours to walk from home to where he worked, all of it up a steep hill. At night he returned home exhausted; he slept a few hours and had to return to work. And the best sheep and cattle went to the hacienda owner. He could just say, "This one and this one is for me." The situation was incredible under the hacienda system. Vol. 1, no. 4. Spring, 1985. Published by SAIIC. @ 1985. 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Title A name given to the resource "The South American Indian Update" Radio Show Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1985 Language A language of the resource English Zotero Title "The South American Indian Update" Radio Show Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 1, no. 1 (9).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Language English Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 1 Pages 9 Abstract Note SAIIC hosts "The South American Indian Update" the first Friday of each month at 8:00P.M. on KPFA (FM94.1) in northern California. NILDA CALLANAUPA Peru Radio Program https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/b0b262fe676ea25934d0544237b88a2f.pdf acea47999fb58f02bd801b40e9fcada6 PDF Text Text and on Indian • Of course, the people at the are still very vulnerable to outside pressures (from the Minister of Interior or even the President)." Also, "Recently the Brazilian authorities have exposed an illegal scheme to occupy and the resources of the Rio Mequens Indian reserve in Rondonia. Officials charge that a consortium of wealthy landholders from the south of Brazil drew up a plan to divide the land of the Makurap and Sakurap people, and to expand a logging operation that is already responsible for the exploitation of millions of dollars in rare tropical hardwoods from the reserve. The loggers have cut a network of roads through the area, including one through the middle of an Indian village and another through a cemetery. "Federal police also ordered the closing of a sawmill belonging to Lavrama, Brazil's second largest exporter of lumber. The police confiscated $40,000 worth of mahogany and other hardwoods and plan further legal action against Lavrama which has illegally operated the sawmill within the boundaries of the Indian area since 1981. These woods command extravagant prices from consumers in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. "The Indians of the Mequens reserve were first contacted by rubber traders during the 1940's, and today they gather and sell rubber in order to obtain products such as cooking oil, salt, and rifles and ammunition for hunting. The logging companies have destroyed thousands of rubber trees on the reserve. "The police action coordinated by FUNAI is one of the strongest measures yet taken to enforce the demarcation of Indian lands in Brazil." SAIIC hosts "The South American Indian Update" the first Friday of each month at 8:00 P.M. on KPFA (FM94.1) in northern California. The program includes interviews with South American Indians regarding current issues, an update of recent events in South America from an Indian perspective, and traditional and modern South American Indian music. Listen in. If you are beyond our range, you can order a cassette of the latest program from SAIIC by sending $8.00 to: American Friends Service Committee/ SAIIC, P.O. Box 7550, Berkeley, CA 94707. Vol. 2, no. l. Fall, 1985. Published quarterly. ®SAIIC 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. 2, No. 1 (Fall 1985) 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 South American Indian Update" Radio Show Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Fall 1985 Language A language of the resource Zotero Title "The South American Indian Update" Radio Show Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 1, no. 2 (13).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Abstract Note SAIIC hosts "The South American Indian Update" the first Friday of each month at 8:00 P.M. on KPFA (FM94.1) in northern California. Issue 1 Pages 13 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 Language English California saiic The South American Indian Update 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/376369e9c13eb1c09a92de5c8dcc811f.pdf beb1190f48133fc690232bdb8a669e14 PDF Text Text BR AZIL "Um Jeito de Ve-IQs:"• Old and New Representations of Indian Peoples in Brazil by G/lton Mendes his brief :miclc does not seek to trent " new set or informative. facts on Indigenous peoples in Brazil. nor even to undenake an exhaustive onalys•s of unknown aspects of the sodol hves of lndtgenous people. Nor do I rep~nt the \'Otce and poh· llcs of lndl3n people. I wish to problemati=e two ospects that I consider tmpona.nt; one, the politiCil suatcgies adopt.ed by lndtgenous orgamza<ions to confront the new challenges In contemporary Bm:il. the Other. • brief frame of the actual economic rtalities by which they are nffecttd. T Background There ex1sts In llmzU. approximately 200 Indigenous peoples and e.1ch pre· sents a set of p;lrtlculnrities with respect to its customs. L1nguage, and sod<>-polit· ical SIY\Icturcs. They vary In population; The maJOrity are munericnlly small sod· eties (almost :llwa)'$ COI\Sldered. indr.idually. to have been more populous m the jXISI). reduced to a few hundred or at times hardly • few doun pen;ons. The at'C35 they inhabit v.ll')' m stu and. in some cases. have already been officially demarcated. The v.1SI majority, hov.-ever. rem.1in barely deUneated and many more hllve nOt even been identified or recognized by the federnl government. This means that Indigenous peoples in Bmz\1 live In <-onstnnt lnse<-urity in relation to one of the mOSt essential resources thllt they h.we ahva)'$ possessed; the land! Gillem MMdts is an agronomist in Mato Grosso, Brazil. He has worked cxl<nsivdy "'lh tht Enaw<nc·Nawc and rcantly compltttd a two-month tnremsktp "itlt SAIIC. Indian peoples Inhabit cm;ronments where they have nlwnys existed in singular ways. set!tng and interpreting the world in wa)'$ that an: spectOc to each. They have CS~abllshed a very intimate and COntinuous re.lntion with their surroundin&-. which lt'.1ds us (or should lead us} to qutSitOn the rational. dichotomous. ond genenc vision of mankind ond ruuurc. d1:lrnctCnSIIC of 'Western socoety•: on one side humankind and itS lntereSIS, on the o<her. n>~urc, stnUc, rt\'taling itself through phenomena... Indigenous peoples are seen and represented In a fom1 that is almost always ne~ive, both in the elnbomtion of dis· courses-which nre n1so pmclicc5-{l5 i_ n people's consciousness. as a consequence of the fonner. State policies ne.1rly alwnys fall with· in 1he realm of '\,-etfare." envisioning nati\'e communities as dependent on their protection and intti:uives. From this point of ,;ew. Indian people are seen as in a proc:= or prog~ve lntegrauon into nauonal socl<:ty, components of a claimed -unitary n.>~ion." The chun:h ,.;s;on. like that of many non-gO\..,m· mentol org.1nlzations (NG0s). is 001100 distom from this continuous provision of welfare nnd protection. :ll'vays in a way that fulfills its own interests. All this would tend towards another level of representnuon: the intemali%3tion of the national society~ cultuml values by native peoples theonsel\'f:S, often taking on the role of the •prote<:ted," subject to state politics and programs and actions originating from civil and religious enlillts. Yet ohis in no way impltes thm lndlm peoples do not consider themseh·es tndl\iduals belonging to a different society New Strategies of Organization? With completely different cultural realities from nationnl society and with low population numbtrs. Indigenous peoples in Braztl nrc foct-d with huge adversities in the realm of nnuonal poli· tics. For this ICilSOn, thnt they ha'" COn· mntly refonnulated tht fom\S of 1\lSistanee and stTllt•g•es to ,.,lonu thcor rights. theor mtei'CSIS.. theor demands. Here. 1t lS now l"lC«$531)' co mentton the fight againSI the revision of Decree 22191. whi<h reguloted the process of demarmtion of lndtgenous nnd 01hcr special lands. Presently. the stgnmg of Decree 1.77!> by president Fernando Henrique C:trdoso has unleashed a new national mobilization. 1 x:rhaps the largest ever, of entities devoted to the Indigenous c:ausc. This mobili:~'lion is calling for the revocation of this Decree. itself a fundamentally altered version of its predecessor as far os the secunty of lndian lmds are concerned. This SJtua· tion shows a C3p;lCity for pohncal catal· }-sis. including one wnh "mtcmanonal effectS." It is necessary to draw Bll<ntlon to one of the most relevant ospect.s of the Bmzilian reality which Is the conduct of many organizmions working In suppon of Indigenous peoples. These, in general, have taken on the role of mobilization and dissennnatlon of lnfomlmion on communities that are "dis.1dvantaged" in rdntion to the st:otc nnd distant from the urixln eemers nnd the political decisions. and those with limited contact 'vith national society. In many cases. these organizations imegrotc themselves thus creating a third coalition phase in which lndig<nous and non-lndtgcnous combme for a Stngle cause Md l'tpresentation. �BRAZIL Til.. cthmc dwet:Suy of lndion peoples m Bmal hos pert.lps been one of the mam fliClors for the generation of reststancc •mn::tll\"e:S because it has produced a dm-ct r<lauon of multiple loc:~l forces c-•pable or mobalizlng, internally and amcnsavcly as well, each panic-ular socacty. On tho other t.lnd. it's also 1mponant to note th:l1 the new stnue· gies adopted have been similar to those used by the different social groups of national socict)'· Stmtcgics that, often, result m imcrnnl conOlcts and difficulues, and arc capable of clashing with the more trndiuonal expressions or the different natwc societies (sec Interview with jacar J~ dc Souza). A Brief layout of t he Economic Relations If cultuml dwersuy as reflected in the search for new possibilities for politacal organizauon of Indigenous people. an the eonfrommion ngJ~inst the interests of grou1>s or pet:SOns belonging to national society, the ~me i.s true leodmg Into the lntenor. supponed by federal intthuvu (along with scandalous conupuon). ~ c-ut thi'O<lgh tens or thowands of males of Cores~ and savanna. wathout the sllghltst prcocc-upauon for the dcstruC'lion they email. both for native peoples :md,their environment. In the end, nntuml rcsour<:es have been WMted, p.1nlcularly timber. and massive deforcstmlon hns followed the installation of rum! induStries. Many Indigenous groups. in the face of this stampede, were removed from trodiuonol orcas where natuml resources abounded and relocated in rcgaons completely unknown to lhem or alrtady dmlncd of thc same t J in the economic arena. Each panacular society presents a different history or economic rclotions with surro1mding societies. At the same time that some lndagcnous peoples ore cng.~ged m antense rommcrti:ll tmde, there are others tt.lt t.l'-c t.ld minimal contact "vnh ttn)' m~ke:t. Bel''-'ttn these two txucmes. there are those who arc eng;Jged an scasoml commercial tmde. Th.. decade of thc 1970s deeply marked the h\·es of Indigenous people an Bmztl m that. through the elaborauon of gigantic "development" projects and an the "interest of national security." the authorhminn state staked out a policy of occupying the Amazon . This opened two bloody wounds: the violem contact wnh peoples previously isolated. leading to partial or total e:xtemli· nation. nnd the IrresiStible incentive for milhons of persons to migrate \vith aim to sculc the "terms in.1bitadns" of the rcsouras. Thas t.ls resulted an untold hardship, :IS evidenced by the high rate of suicide tXJsttnt m groups like til.. Guamni-Kolowa Mony other peoples continue to suffer the consequences or these largescale projectS (doms, umber extmction. mines. roads, fnctories, fisheries. ngro· industries, etc.) estnblishcd around or even inside their territories. For many. Lhe only option left open is sc<lSOnal labor outSide or their indigenous arc•. selling their labor for ranches or in regional markets ot derisory rates. or migrntion to chaos. where they live in conditions of extreme poveny. Amazon. Diverse ev:lluations made of the ~lundrtds of panacular undenakang.s m til.. Amazon t.lvc followed ond Indigenous Sllll3110n tn Brll%11 a.rc pracconnnue <o follow the maJOr roads tically urommous an tt.lt these trends Vol. 10 NO -:-f t.lve m.1de tlung.s much worse: destroying tmduion:tl forms o( production, st.lrpcning "dependence· on outside aid. and !coding to environmental collapse. in thas context, today, perhaps more then ever. the question of Indigenous peoples' relation to the mnrkct (the genemlion of income, the management of natuml resources. nnd the mainte· nancc or 311 imcgml. mtional, balanced liJe in relation to the environment) ls more complex 1han ever. Contemporary Initiatives In the field of the indigenous economy have followed the trend of ancreascd sm.~ll-scale projects. Governmental programs (M imposed by mtemotional finance banks) ha,·e encoumge<! undertakings bclongmg LO the category of "SUS!ainable development" proJectS lndagenous organizauons themselves and suppon organizauons arc anell ned to favor economic activities tluu lncrcmcm production within l11digcnous areas: O<'tivilies Lhat seck to add value to products destined for specific markets; activities centered around the rntionaliz:nion and exploration or determined natural resources for a greater p.•rtlcipation of native communities In the production and organlz.11ion of work for commerce. The positive side or these decisions cannot be dtnied. just os the results art noL gnmdiosc and tmmedt3le. Time is being bought to be able, more cle:arly and dcodedl)\ 10 find CXI5lS tt.lt 3re proper and "mdependcnt." On the other t.lnd, one musl also lnquare if Lhis doesn\ COOSltlUtC a new politiCOll stmteg)• utilized by nationol society. geared lO\\'llrds itS own CC'Onomic imcrcsts, aiming at the incorporation or new markets. especially those held as "alternative." In the end. one must Onnlly nsk, to wt.lt extent these Initiatives constitme de fa.ao something new, or are they leading Indigenous people, once ag;Jin, into "modern· and sophisticated schemes of economic explouotion. 17 � 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. 10, no. 1 (Spring 1996) 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 "Um Jeito de Ve-los:" Old and New Representations of Indian Peoples in Brazil Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gllton Mendes Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1996 Language A language of the resource English, Spanish English Zotero Title "Um Jeito de Ve-los:" Old and New Representations of Indian Peoples in Brazil Item Type Journal Article Author Gllton Mendes Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 16-17 Publication Title Abya Yala News ISSN 1071-3182 Date Spring 1996 Language English Abstract Note Indigenous organizations confront the new challenges in contemporary Brazil the and a brief frame of the actual economic realities by which they are affected are discussed Attachment Title Pages from Abyayala_v10_n1_p16-17.pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Brazil Indigenous Politics Non-Governmental organizations 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/282e159d86ceb8f1dd79660fc040d15d.pdf 0b77001130d6821917bb96eeb6243aaf PDF Text Text W 0 M E N "We Must Combine Our Efforts" In recosnition of the similarity of the struggles Indigenous women face around the world, we recently had the privilege of talking with Victoria Tauli-COtPUz, a Kankilnaey lgorot from the Cordillera region of the Philippines. She is the past chairperson of the Cordillera Peoples' Alliance, a coalition of Indigenous peoples in the Cordillera, Northem Philippines. She is Executive Director of the Cordillera Women's Education and Resource Center, Inc., an NGO doing education, organizins, and projects amons Indigenous women in the region. f~~ .w~ Victoria Tauli-Corpuz Tell us about the founding of the Cordillera Women's Education and ResoUl·ce Center. ndigenous peoples in our region of the Philippines began to organize in the mid 1970s when the World Bank funded construction of four large dams along our Big Chico River. This project would have relocated 300,000 Bontoc and Kalinga peoples, but these people successfully fought against it. After this struggle, organizations were started on the local and provincial levels. The Cordillera Peoples' Alliance, which is the regional federation of these organizations, was organized in 1984. Although women were very much a part of this struggle, they didn't have their own organizations. So in 1985, we thought it was time to organize I our own women's center to train women to become leaders in their own dght. We created The Cordillera Women's Education and Resow-ce Center was and took the lead in establishing organizations in the region. What is the primary purpose of the Cor diller a Women's Education and Resource Center? First, we wanted our women to take a more active role in the stmggle for the defense of our ancestral lands and for self detennination. So we attempt to bring in more women and educate them on these issues. At the same time, we are aware that women are marginalized. In our traditional communities, Indigenous decision-making structures are ve•y male dominated. We felt this was not good for women, and therefore efforts should be made to improve this situation. Women must be equipped to patticipate more effectively in the community decision-making process. And thirdly, in many of our communities agriculture, which is the main economic activity, relies heavily on women. But when it comes to cash crop production, or when corporations hire, women are marginalized. When, for instance, the mines hire workers, they hire Vol. 9 No. 1 only men, and the women become housewives. As housewives, women are not patt of the conununity's economic activity as they are when they are subsistence farmers. We are studying how these modem developments have futther marginalized women. Tell us mor e about the t raditional role of women in your community. Well, as I said, the women are the subsistence farmers. They are the ones who fetch water, keep the seeds, and take care of the children. Childrearing is sometimes shared since women go to the fields, then the men stay in the village and take care of the babies. Where do you believe machismo, or m ale domination, cam e from in your society? For us, as the ml\iority population, machismo was introduced by colonization. Before colonization, although they were not part of the formal decisionmaking process, women were consulted about their opinions. When the colonizers came, they declared that women should stay home and take care of the children. That was not our traditional belief; housework was shared. The male-dominated beliefs of our colonizers seeped through our communities. For instance, we had a courtship system in which women could also do courting, and mrutial sepru·ations were pennitted with appropriate grounds. When the colonizers came with their religious beliefs, they told us this could not be, that it was immoral and that we could not separate from ow· husbands. Ow· colonizers brought and reinforced male domination in our traditional societies. Do Indigen ous communities in the P hilippines have r ecognized territories? ' We occupy ow· land, but the law states that ow· land is public land. We have a law in the Philippines which 29 �W 0 ME N ----- ------ --- ----- says all lands that are 18% slopes or above are considered public lands, and therefore cannot be owned or sold. Almost all ow· lands are 18% slopes or above. Because of that law virtually all the people in our com, munity are considered squatters on our own lands. So we are working to have that law repealed. In 1986, when there was a constitutional conm>ission, we lobbied to put a clause in the constitution recognizing ancestral land rights of Indigenous peoples. That law was incorporated into the constitution, but until a bill enabling and defining the law is passed, we legally do not have an ancestral land law in ow· country. What othe•- crucial issues are facing your community? asking that they be allowed to participate in their medical missions to the Aetas in Pinatubo. Their intent was to collect DNA materials from the Aetas by collecting blood, mucosal scrapings, and hair roots. This sounds very much like the Hwnan Genome Divet'Sity Project. I 6nd this grossly unethical and immoral, because what they plan to do is to participate in a humanitarian mjssion to the Aetas who were displaced when the Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines empted. So, in effect, they arc using a medical mission to obtain genetic resow-ces. We did work with t he Foundation on Economic Trends (FET) in Washington DC. who filed a petition on behalf of itself and other organizations, including our own, for a moratorium on the Human Genome Diversity Project which at the time was promoted by the National Institute of Health in the US. So the FET filed a suit against them, but the whole project was transferred to the National Science Foundation (NSF). Suing the NSF will be more difficult because they are a semi-private, semi-governmental organization. These are the steps we have taken to pre-empt the attempts of the pt·oject to gather genetic material. There are still ongoing logging operations. The logging companies attempt to drive people away from their land. However, mining is one of the biggest issues that we face because our region is ve•-y rich in minerals. Seventy-five percent of gold exports come from ow· region. The government is relaxing the laws to allow corporations to invest and open mines. These corporations receive 75-year leases. They operate strip mines and open pit mines. We have been •-esisting fw-the•expansion of these mines. Do Indigenous peoples in the Philippines deal with issues sinrilar to those of other Indigenous The Philippine government ratified GATT last peoples ar ound t he world? December. How will this affect Indigenous peoWe really have many issues in common, like ancesples? tral land rights, traditional ceremonies, autonomy, alld It , viJl have a tremendous affect on Indigenous peo- self govertrment. Because of that communality, we ples, especially in terms of their rights to their lands. It were able to combine efforts to cont,;bute to the draft will make it vety easy for the government to say that the UN working group on Indigenous peoples develsince they are a signato•y to GATT, we must open ow- oped. We should not underestimate what our lobby land for investments.They also have been encow-aging conbibuted to that draft.. us to produce cash crops like cut flowers and asparagus. With the production of cash crops, ow- agriculture Do you have any messages fot· women in Mexico, shifts from subsistence production for domestic con- South and Central America? sumption to producing high-value crops. This ,viJl force We were pru-t of the group that organized the our agricultural production to become pat-t of the International Women's C01uerence held in Samiland (in Norway) in 1990. As a result of that conference, we entire world's market economy. developed a resolution saying we would do regional How ·is the Human Genome Diversity P r oject organizing among our women. Latin American women affecting Indigenous communities in the did their own organizing, which I think is great. On owpart, we built up ow- Asian Indigenous women's netPhilippines? Some Indigenous peoples have been targeted for work. Now we must combine our effo•-ts and come genetic collection, and some collection has probably together again so we can produce an excellent already occurred. On the list of the Human Genome Indigenous Women's Agenda to be presented at the UN Project we have the Ifugawes, who come from ow· World Conference on Women in Beijing in September. region; my own tribe; and the Aetas, a group of We should make an effot-t to outline the issues of Indigenous peoples from the Central Luzon, Southern Indigenous women, whether they are in the North or Tagalog, and from the Visayas. Late last year we got a the South, and then present these issues. We can also copy of a letter from Dr. Camara, one of the medical sponsor a series of activities in Beijing where doctot'S from the Aloha Medical Mission of Hawaii, Indigenous women can speak out. 'f?J wherein he enclosed a letter from Hoffman-La Roche, 30 Abya Yala News � 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. 9, no. 1 (Spring 1995) 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 Must Combine Our Efforts" Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring, 1995 Language A language of the resource English English Zotero Title "We Must Combine Our Efforts" Item Type Journal Article Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 29 - 30 Publication Title Abya Yala News: Journal of the South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC) ISSN 1071-3182 Date Spring, 1995 Language English Abstract Note Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a Kankanaey Igorot from the Cordillera region of the Philippines, was the past chairperson of the Cordillera People's Alliance and is now the Executive Director of the Cordillera Women's Education and Resource Center, Inc. She speaks about the need to protect the Philippine indigenous peoples from the Human Genome Project, commercial agriculture, and violations of women's rights. Attachment Title We_Must_Combine_Our_Efforts.pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Human Genome Project machismo Phillipines Territory Women https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/aa725b1f0134b2411cba906d9ee4de7a.pdf 86659d7631469a12e3958e7b07bba8fd PDF Text Text ·we Need to Survive!•• A Message from Davi Kopenawa Yanomami (Bnuil) Daui Kopenauxl Ymwmami visilal Ntw Yo'* in April and md with 11¥ Stadmy Gennrzl of the United Nations, the Organizaoon ofAmerican States, and tM World Bank to explain the effects geld-miners are lu:uing on his people, tM Yanomami of the state of Romima in the Brazilian Amazon. He also md with manygroups on the mst QlQSt to help raise funds for a Yanomami health project. The following aree=rpts frrmt a statement made by Daui Koptnawa Yanomami to the lnttr·Ameriam Commission on Human Rights last September in Demini, Brazil. My name is Davi Kopenawa Yanomami... I am a Yanomami Indian. I want to send my message to those who are friends and who are helping us to defend the forest. I want to talk to the people who do not know the problems of the Indians in Brazil. We Yanomami Indians have lived in this forest for a vel)' long time, for much longer than any White or non-Indian person. We used to be free and we did not have any lcind of illness. We were not sick a t all. rolled into the forest. Tiley are now all over the territory. We Yanomami Indians are vel)' worried because we do not have the authority of the President... we have to ask the government to change the situation and to take the gold miners. .. out of the area. !have asked FUNAI (the Brazilian Bureau of Indian Affairs) many times and all the authorities, including former President Samey, when he was President...to take out the gold miners. .. but the only thing they d id was to promise and to keep promising things and not do anything. Instead, they let many other gold· miners come in... and they did not take them out. Sickness also came with the gold miners. Because of the mosqui· toes that bite them and then bite us, we are now having all of this sickness. Tile sickness called malaria is very Slrong, and I think at least !<XX> Yanomami have died already. Even more than !<XX>. 111at is what I think. Now our rivers.. our streams. .. During that are dirty. The time there were no nonDavi YOII()mami on his visit to North America. Yanomamldo not know about mercury... Indians around here. Tiley were far away. We Indians did not know that the non-Indians would give us so many Mercury is used by gold miners to clean the gold ... It goes problems... I am talking about the gold miners who come back to the river and the fish that the Yanomami eat and the here and take out our fish, the animal$. .. and devastate the water that the Yanomami drink is mixed with mercury. forest. 111at is what I am tallcing about. .. They have invaded When they cat and drink that they get sick. our territory.Tiley first came in 1987.11lcy killed four Those gold miners arc also poor people. Like us, Yanomami at Paapiu. From there they spread out into the they are not rich. I feel pity for them because they come territory with small airplanes and helicopters... and they here, because their boSSC$ send them here, and they just 20 SAIIC Newsle tter �obey them. Around Sururucus, there arc a lot of goldminers. The federal polke have not taken them out. They tried, but what they did was to get the nice gold-miners out, not the bad and mean ones. I am a Yanomami Indian who understands the non-Indian world. I keep asking President Collor to expel the gold miners from our territory. President Collor has been to Surururus, but. .. on ly to a military base... That is the only thing he saw. President Collor knows that the situation is not good. So I am asking o ther people to con tin ue pressuring the Brazilian government to help expel the goldminers. I spoke to the United Nations, which gave me an award. I told them that the prize did not help my people. So I am asking the UN to help the Yanomami people to pressure the Brazilian government to remove the goldminers from our area. Also, we want the Organization of American States. .. to help us as friends. I don't think it is just the Brazilian government. You should pressure every government in the world b«ause they arc all alike, and they should help us. .. Protect the Indians, protect the rivers, the mountai.n s, the forest. We need to survive. It is very important for them too. It is not only the Yanomami but also the non-Indians. We all depend on the land. So if they do not protect the land, all of humanity will die. To you whom I am sending this message, what I am asking is to do something to help the Brazilian Ind ians, and also all the Ind ians of the world, because the Indians want to live in peace. Not only the Indians who live in the forest but also the Indians who live in the dty and the nonIndians who arc living in the dty arc suffering because the government should pay attention to all of us and do something to help us. I am going to say something else... about the 19 islands of Yanomami land that former President Samey demarcated. We Yanomami Indians do not want to live in islands. We want to be safe. The gold miners arc going to enter our islands... We need a con tin uous area and a big area in order to be able to fiSh and hunt and live well. We want all of our land united. In regards to the government operation that is supposed to take out the gold miners... they have not taken out all of the gold miners. The operation has stopped because the government says that they do not have money... ! know the government authorities, the Brazilian au thorities, and I know the politicians and I know the way they work. My feeling is that they do not want to take the gold miners out... What they really want is to be here and exploit our resources. That is why they do not want to solve our problems. (Su Davi.p . 45) Vol6 Nos 1&2 Some Ground is Made in the Struggle for the Construction of a Yanomami Park President Collor finally obeyed the Brazilian court dedsion and revok ed former President Samcy's illegal dccrccs dividing Yanomami territory into 19 'islands' and create three illegal mining reserves. But optimism about a decisio n on a Yanomami Pari< soon diminished when Collor announecd he was setting up a group to study Yanomami boundaries. On April19, National Day of the Indian, he signed a decree calling for a proposal for the demarcation of the Yanomami territory to be presented to him wlthi.n six months. During Presid ent Collor's visit to the Un ited States in June, environmental and Indian support grou ps informed him that the evacuation of the gold-miners in the Yanomami area had been paralyzed and the gold-miners had again invaded an extensive part of the Yanomami territory. Upon returning to Brazil, Collor fired FUNAI prosldent Cantidio Guerrciro Guimaracs. Meanwhile, the government pla.n ned to begin on July 19, the third operation to expel the gold-miners from the Yanomami territory using a sum of $1.8 million. The government's plans for the gold-mi ncrs Is being questioned. It was reported that the intcnton is to incorporate several thousand expelled gold-miners i.n to agricultural projects. If the projects are set up near the Yanomami area, it is certain that they will re-invade the territory. Sydney Possuelo, the new prosidcnt of FUNAI published a resolution on July 22, 1991, calling for the demarcation of the Yanomami territory as a contiguous area of9,419,108 hectares, located in thcstatesof Roraima and Am.uonas. This was signed by President Collor. The government is estimating that it will cost $6 millio n to demarcate the territory. Last Minute News Ill On November 14, President Collar de Mello granted "pennanent rights" over 36,358 squa re miles to the Yanomamilll �Atendo (continued from p. 26) n.cy a.r e a strong force in the economic survival of our communities. This is because of their involvement in the production of "molas," which is the art of the Kuna. Because the "molas" are being sold at natio nal levels and exported to the US and Europe, they are achieving economic success at international levels. In many tespects, the women have a greater capacity to organize them.sclves in cooperatives and to conbibute to the economic survival of the Kuna family than the men do. This is why, when we speak of the Kuna economy, we spea.k of men and women as equals. Davi (continued from p. 21) 1hcre are many people who are powerful. There are powerful gold miners... and authorities too, like Romero Juca, former president of FUNAI. He is responsible for letting the gold miners invade our territory and ... for lots of killings of Yanomami ... Something must be done to solve our problem because Romero Juca will not solve it. He docs not like us. .. Do the international authorities and people from the United States think it is true what they always say that the demarcation of Yanomami land is a matter of money, that they do not have money to do it?... I am very worried about people abroad who.. : are giving money to Brazil. .. but ll21 to help the Indians. This money that comes from abroad is helping the Brazilian government to oppress Indians. I am very worried about that. Non-Indians are like ants. I know that non-Indians like our reso= n.cy say that we have gold, we have lumber, and they say that they need that to help the people who live in the city. Well, we do not want them, and we do not want them here. What we wa. t is tespect for our rights. We want n them to leave us alone. We need help with regard to the health situation. In the beginning we did not need any help. We did not need any doctors, any medical doctors, any nurses or any medicine. But now we need doctors and nurses to help the Yanomami who are sick. We also need medicines because we used to cure ourselves only with 'shabori' [shamanism) ... But that is not enough anymore, And we need medical doctors and medicines and help from non-Indian people. We are worried because the non-Indians are not very much worried about us. They think that we are a different race. 1hcrefore, they want to isolate us. They think we are bothering their work. We are preventing them from working here, so they would rather have us isolated. They do not wony very much about what is going on with us. 44 We have strongly safeguarded our spirituality and traditions. For example, we hold the Gc1U!ml Congress of Kuna Culture, which unites the spiritual guides of all of our communities. They are highly respected by all Kuna people. n.cy promote teaching and learning amongst the youth so that our rich traditions are not lost. We, of Kuna Yala, are confronting serious problems along the Colombian border, where gold prospectors are invading our lands. We are also indirect victims of the confrontations which take place in Colombia between the guerrillas and the army. Violating all laws, both sides invade our region while the Panamanian authorities do nothing to stop them. The same thing occurs with the Yanqui {United States) army which often crosses our territory to go to the Panamanian border with the excuse of filling the vacuum created by the dissolution of the Pana· man ian army in 1989, following the invasion. Ampan (continued from p. 11) domination. everybody is af'Taid that we will take a racist stand and that this will lead to a racial confrontation. For this reason. there has not been enough dialogue amongst the poor dass. In meetings with laborer$, peasants and intellectuals, it is important for us to talk so that we feel equal. We must, if we are from the same cla.ss, talk so that we can find a solution... Plurinationality will only be possible with the total transformation of society. This is possible if, as in Switzer· land, there are well-defined and recognized sectors. We understand that the problem is not exclusively Indigenous. It is a problem which concerns aU of us. In order to form such a state we must think carefully what it would be like. How would it be governed at the political, economic, social and cultural levels? U we find that the workers are on one side, the indigenous on another and other sectors on other sides, then it will not be possible... We must continually reconsider our struggle and include long-term goals in our strategy. We must work together and make compromises. We must coordinate our endeavors in this way or we will not succeed, even if we are united. SAIIC Newsletter � 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. 6, nos. 1&amp;2 (spring/summer 1991) 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 Need to Survive!": A Message from Davi Kopenawa Yanomami Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Yanomami, David Kopenawa Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1991 Language A language of the resource English English Zotero Title "We Need to Survive!": A Message from Davi Kopenawa Yanomami Item Type Journal Article Author Yanomami, David Kopenawa Volume 6 Issue 1,2 Pages 20-21, 44 Publication Title Abya Yala News: Journal of the South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC) ISSN 1071-3182 Date Summer 1991 Language English Abstract Note An excerpt from a speech given by David Kopenawa Yanomami. Attachment Title We_Need_To_Survive.pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Brazil Collor de Mello Fernando FUNAI Yanomami David Kopenawa https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/23e3046714f499be91f53e5fb4694632.pdf 77b9976d562fd327f7d2a633a0e14df6 PDF Text Text Page 21 ~~""-~~~~~ "YANOMAMI LAND"-THE FARCE OF DEMARCATION President Jose Sarney has taken an unusual action to open up for development lands which only two months earlier had been reserved for the use of the Yanomami Indians. Interministerial Decree 250, on November 18th, annulled a measure that had guaranteed the Yanomami "permanent possession" of a National Park and two National Forests carved out of their lands. Instead, the Yanomami will have "preferential," but not exclusive use of these ancestral territories. The Yanomami are the largest Native group in the world still not in permanent contact with the national society. As the demarcation of their land, executed by the Brazilian military as part of their 'Calha Norte' program, now stands, the Yanomami could lose as much as 70% of their land. The government has recognized lands in the vicinity ofYanomami villages as 19 '1ndian Colonies," but these offer little protection to the semi-nomadic Yanomami in the wake of an invasion by 40,000 gold panners and the presence of a large contingent of Brazilian soldiers in the border area. Many observers feel that the President's actions are designed to pave the way for largerscale mineral exploitation in the area, which contains rich reserves of gold, uranium, cassiterite, and strategic minerals. Already, rivers in the Yanomami area have been polluted by the gold miners, who use large quantities of mercury to purify the gold. The Yanomami have no antibodies to protect them against diseases brought in by the miners and soldiers, and health workers from the Catholic Church and the Commission for the Creation of a Yanomami Park (CCPY) have been expelled from the Yanomami area by the government. � 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. 4, Nos. 2&amp;3 (Fall 1988 &amp; Winter 1989) Zotero Volume 4 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 "Yanomami Land"-The Farce of Demarcation (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 Fall 1988 & Winter 1989 Zotero Title "Yanomami Land"-The Farce of Demarcation (Brazil) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 4, nos. 2 &3 (21).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 2 & 3 Language English Volume 4 Pages 21 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/09d9e14e5bfca58697c46e710e407521.pdf d6a25b1d5d27cf060042a5433b5aa6a0 PDF Text Text 1000 INDIANS MARCH TO PROTEST ARMY'S KILLING OF COMMUNITY LEADERS (Colombia) last November the principal Indian leader of the Arhuaoo lndlans, Luis Napolc6n Torres, his brother, Angel Maria Torres, and another Arhuaoo, Hugues Chaparro were travelling by bus from the local city ol Valleclupar, the Colombian capital of Bogotll. They were going to protest to government authorities about anny and police harassment of their communities. At a stop along the way, ncar the town of Curumani, soldiers forced the three off the bus and took them away. The bus driver reported this to the local police but they appear to have done little o r nothing. Two weeks later the Indians' bodies were discovered in three different places- all had been severely tortured. About a thousand Indians later marched to Valleclupar in protest and to take the bodies bad< to the mountains for traditional funeral rites. Two of the dead were traditionalmmno (shamans) and all were highly respected Indian leaders. On the same day as the three leaders disappeared, another Arhuaoo, Vicente Villafafle, and his brother had their house searched for anns- none were found. They were taken to the army base in Valledupar where they were beaten and tortured. Two days later, November 30th, one of Gran Chaco Indigenous Peoples Call for Land Commission (Bolivia) Indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco region of the Bolivian Amazon have requested the Bolivian government to establish a commission to deman:ate their territory. In an open letter to President Jaime Paz Zamora, the Mataoo and Tapiet~ peoples, who live on the banks of the Plloornayu River, Informed the President that they conducted a general assembly last November (1990) in Villamontes. At the end of the gathering. they issued a resolution calling on the President to take immediate measures to halt the injustices and abuses they are suffering at the hands of colonists. The resolution denounces the " ... total paralysis of our attempts to acquine property rights and land tiUes, a process that has been dctained by the National Agrarian Reform. We demand to be treated the same way as our Sirion6 brothels and sisters at lbiato. The Sirion6 have been able to press for the approval ol Supreme Decree# 22609 which declares as 'indigenous territory' the lands they inhabit." Indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco explain Vol6 Nos 1&2 them was taken by army helicopter to the Indian community of Vlndivameina (Santo Domingo) where soldjers searched houses, shot their rilles into the air, and stole food from the school and equipment from the health post. The Colombian army views all peasant and Indian communities as potential guerrilla collaborators. In other areas of Colo mbia, guerrillas themselves have killed Indian leaders who refuse to affiliate with their particular antigovernment group of which there are several. In many areas the Indians suffer at the hands of both the rebel and government forces. A Colombian court has begun an investigation into the killings but this is unlikely to bring any results without a show of support for the Indians and protests at the violations of their rights. Please write to the President of Colombia, protesting the army's killing and torture of lndlan people. Senor Presidente Dr Cesar Goviria, Presidente de lo Republica Coso de Noriiio, Carrero 8 No 7-26 Bogot6, COlOMBIA \,~·-:........ -' . that the agrarian reform paper work has been suspended. They arc accusing the government of stalling the approval of previous documents. The Mataco and Tapiet~ said that in July of 1980, agrarian reform officers instructed them to proceed with the land tiUe paper work and that native authorities visited the Indian commu.nities to explain the objectives. With economic aid from the Swedish Mission in Bolivia, along with the approval ol the agrarian reform officers, they Initiated the paper work along legal path$. They paid the required fees to the local judge Hilda Palavlsino, a SECretary, and a land surveyor. The local judge is now advising cattle ra.nchers and pits them against the Indians. She has been responsible for the legal curtailment of paper worlc that was to benefit the Mataco. In the meantime, the Mataco and Tapiet~ say that the governmental commission must be formed by the Ministry of Peasant Affairs, the Indigenist Institute, CIOOB (Indigenous Confederation of Eastern Bolivia) and representatives of the Mataco and Tapict~. They warn against colonizers encroaching on their lands. They also denounce Judge Hilda Palavlsino for bias towards catUe ranchers because of her friendship and familial ties. "'four petition falls through, and is not resolved favorably and immediately, the Indigenous Peoples of the Gran Chaco will adopt other de facto measures," they warn. 19 � 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. 6, nos. 1&amp;2 (spring/summer 1991) 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 1000 Indians March To Protest Army's Killing of Community Leaders Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1991 Language A language of the resource English English Zotero Title 1000 Indians March To Protest Army's Killing of Community Leaders Item Type Journal Article Volume 6 Issue 1,2 Pages 19 Publication Title Abya Yala News: Journal of the South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC) ISSN 1071-3182 Date Summer 1991 Language English Abstract Note The Colombian Army discriminates against indians and calls them possible guerilla collaborators. Attachment Title abyayala_v06n01_02_p019.pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Arhuaca Colombia paramilitary attacks https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/9e52f7132bf14a420037efd85a6729ee 38a292d8afc76b0f28ceb03a0acf71eb 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. 7, Nos. 1&2 (31).pdf PDF Text Text R e a las cuatro uinas" 11 Jóvenes Navajo han muerto de una enfermedad extraña Desde el 2 de Junio de 1993, doce personas han muerto a causa de una nueva efermedad. Un inexplicable paro respiratorio que comienza con síntomas similaras a los de la influenza ha sorprendido a los médicos. Fiebre, dolor de cabeza, dolores musculares y tos anteceden el paro respiratorio. En solo unos días o, a veces horas, la persona enferma puede morir de una infección en los pulmones. Entre las 19 personas que han contraído la infección, 16 han sido Indígenas Navajo localizados en la reserva Navajo, en la región de Cuatro Esquinas, lugar donde confluyen los estados .Arizona, Colorado, Nuevo México y Utah. Hasta ahora no se sabe la causa específiCa de esta infeccion fatal o su forma de transmisión. Los médicos consideran que puede encontrarse en una bacteria que se desarrolla en las heces de ratones que se encuentran bajo tierra. Otra teoria es que puede ser un hongo (ci), que sobervive en tierras secas y es originario del desierto al suroeste de los EEUU donde la enfermedad conocida como "coccy" o "fiebre del valle" se desarrolla. La epidemia ha producido, .por otro lado, serias discusiones entre los indígenas sobre los efectos de la industria nuclear y minera y también sobre el uso de pesticidas tóxicos utilizados cerca de las reservas Indígenas de los Estados Unidos. Vol7 No 1 & 2 31 � 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. 7, Nos. 1&2 (Julio/Agosto 1993) (Spanish) 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 11 Jovenes Navajo han muerto de una enfermedad extrana (Norte America) Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Article Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July/August 1993 Language A language of the resource English Zotero Title 11 Jovenes Navajo han muerto de una enfermedad extrana (Norte America) Item Type Newspaper Article Attachment Title Vol. 7, Nos. 1&2 (31).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 1 and 2 Language Spanish Publication Title Noticias de Abya Yala Volume 7 Abstract Note An unknown illness has afflicted parts of the Navajo Nation, whose leaders are wondering if it could be caused by the nuclear industry or toxic pesticides in the region. Pages 31 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/db9c836ecb34f5b5e9f8ad84710fd6c0 7af82edbcca689a878fd7198df390355 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. 6, no. 4 (7).pdf PDF Text Text 1 1 E 1 El9 de octubre, se inició en Ecuador una protesta pacífica general. La convocatoria fue lanzada por la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de Ecuador (CONAIE) y su objetivo fue obtener el reconocimiento de las reivindicaciones de los indígenas sobre sus tierras en todo el país, una mejor educación bilingüe y una enmienda constitucional que reconozca oficialmente la existencia de diferentes naciones en la sociedad ecuatoriana. Durante las protestas, se bloquearon calles y en todas las provincias del altiplano se paralizó el comercio. En la provincia de Imbaburn, las fuerzas armadas dispararon contra los manifestantes. Hubo un muerto (Segundo Cai.zo) y al menos seis heridos, entre los cualessecuentan: ManuelPerugachi,Manuel Tuquerres, Casimiro Quilumba, Avelino Farinango, Francisco Chicaiza y Belisario Sanchez. En Lago Agrio, en la región de la Amazonía explotada por compaflías multinacionales petroleras, los choferes de las multinacionales arrollaron a los manifestantes. En el curso de uno de los incidentes causados por los automóviles, una niña fue asesinada y otras 9 personas quedaron heridas. En la provincia de Cotopaxi, Carlos Camacho y Adelaida Andrade fueron detenidos y en el cantón de Tungurahua también se efectuaron otras detenciones. De la misma manera, en la provincia de Cayambe, Tupac Churu Chumbi, Alfredo Iguango, Esperanza Silvia Tulevio, Guadalupe Esther Tulevio y Yolanda Andrango (de 13 años) fueron encarcelados. A pesar de la represión, los indígenas han decidido continuar con sus acciones. Los antecedentes de esta acción son los siguientes: Las 11 naciones indígenas de Ecuador, que constituyen un 40% de la población, han iniciado una lucha de vida o muerte por la sobrevivencia de sus culturas, su gente y el medio ambiente. En junio de 1990 estaluchallevóalascomunidadesindígenasaemprender un levantamiento pacífico que paralizó el país y condujó a negociaciones con el gobierno. Las conversaciones con el gobierno se centraron en las demandas de los Vol. 6, N. 4 Miles de Indígenas mobiliuuon en todo el pals. Foto SAIIC pueblos indígenas y la solución de los problemas de tierra así como en la propuesta de una enmienda a la constitución ecuatoriana que declare que Ecuador es un país constituido por distintas nacionalidades. Si bien son muchos los asuntos relativos a las tierras que se han logradoresolvergraciasaestas conversaciones, muchas siguen aún sin solución. En abril de 1992, miles de indígenas de la región de la Amazonía, gravemente afectada por el impacto ecológico y cultural de las compañías petroleras norteamericanas, realizaron una marcha histórica hacia la capital Quito. Durante la grnn caminata de 225 km recibieron el apoyo de otras comunidades indígenas y de una gran cantidad de población no aborigen. El gobierno acogió parte de las demandas de los manifestantes al concederles derechos sobre aproximadamente la mitad (2 millones de hectares) de la superficie reivindicada. Despuésdepresentarsupetitorioalnuevogobiemo del Presidente Sixto Durán, el 20 de julio, CONAIE emitió un llamado a la acción directa durante los días próximos al V centenario de la llegada de Colón a América. En el altiplano central, los indígenas bararon con troncos y piedras las calles principales y secundarias que conducen a las ciudades, lo que impidió el paso de los agricultores. Además, protagonizaron una grnn manifestación en Quito el día 12 de octubre. Favor, enviarfaxesy telexesalgobiemoecuatoriano en apoyo alas justas demandas del movimiento indígena por su tierra y el reconocimiento de sus derechos culturales y políticos y llamando además al fm de la violenciadeEstadocontralas manifestaciones pacíficas. CONAIE también solicitaayuda financiera para costear los gastos médicos de los heridos por la represión. correspondencia deberá enviarse a: Sr Sixto Durán Presidente de República Palado de gobierno Noreno 1043 Quito, Ecuador Fax # 011-593-2515 408 La dirección de CONAIE es: Avenida Granados 2553y6de Diciembre, Casilla 17171235, Quito6 ECUADOR 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. 6, No. 4 (Noviembre 1992) (Spanish) 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 12 de Octubre: Segundo Levanamiento Indigena en Ecuador (500 Anos de Lucha) Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper 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 November 1992 Zotero Title 12 de Octubre: Segundo Levanamiento Indigena en Ecuador (500 Anos de Lucha) Item Type Newspaper Article Attachment Title Vol. 6, no. 4 (7).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Language Spanish Pages 7 Publication Title Noticias de Abya Yala Volume 6 500 Anos de Lucha Cotopaxi Ecuador Lago Agrio