1 12 1 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/cea1aea2a429e7e7414aea264fce7e7b.pdf e066510269969bced0a216e2a8d6740c 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, No. 1 (8).pdf PDF Text Text Chief Itabira Surui at the National Congress in Brasilia. photo: Aguirre/Switkes/ Amazonia ''A large fazendeirocame here ten years ago and set up a ranch on our land. Forty of our people had built a corral to raise some animals-pigs, cattle, and chickens-but the fazendeiro set it on fire. We rebuilt the fence and again he set it on fire. Then he sent the police to take me to jail with all my people. I spent 27 days in jail. Last June we cleaned an area to cultivate, but the fazendeiro forbid us from planting anything. He went to Boa Vista (the capital of Roraima) and made a "law" with the judge saying that we couldn't plant on our land; if we did plant, we would have to pay a 200 cruzados fine and would be sent to jail. But we will continue fighting-and will not give away our land, for we don't have anywhere else to go." Last May 8th, a Yanomami child was killed and her father wounded when the Tiretheri village was attacked by a group of non-Indians. The suspects are a possibly organized group of gold miners attempting to get access to new mining fronts. Also, the burial of 20 Yanomami Indians was witnessed and reported by a miner coming from the Couto Magalhaes area. (See SAIIC urgent action bulletin 5/7/88). Neither FUNAI, the National Indian Foundation, nor the government have taken any steps to ease the conflict between Indians and nonIndians in the area, and have denied that these conflicts take place. According to Father Saffirio of Roraima, the government's claims to have removed gold miners from the area are false. The number has in fact increased, he says, to over 25,000. In the Brazilian Congress, several senators and deputies announced that "a genocide of immeasurable proportions has begun in the Yanomami territory, threatening the lives of ~000 Indians,'' and that "urgent intervention" is needed. In a document, the Congressmen told Brazil's President Jose Sarney that the miners' invasion of the area is a demoralizing factor for the government. 'We believe that it is not too late for the government to regain its authority and halt the genocidal process that would lead to extinction of the last isolated ethnic group of our country and the world." There is much worry about the Yanomami situation among the professional teams that gave medical assistance to the area before they were expelled by the National Security Council as threats to the national sovereignty. They say now the Indians are completely without assistance and vulnerable to disease from contacts with the miners that have invaded the area. PageS � 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 No. 1 (Summer 1988) 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 Violent Conflicts in Yanomani Area Continue (Brazil) 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 Summer 1988 Zotero Title Violent Conflicts in Yanomani Area Continue (Brazil) Item Type Newspaper Article Attachment Title Vol. 4, No. 1 (8).pdf Issue 1 Language English Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 4 Abstract Note After the death of an eight-year-old Yanomani girl, the violence erupted into a genocide of Yanomami people by gold miners. Pages 8 Brazil FUNAI National Indian Foundation Yanomami