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A Violation of Indigenous Rights
For the
sake of survival, selling their handcrafts to visitors in the town,
Guarani Indians spend their nights sleeping on the streets of Paraty in
Rio de Janeiro. As I conversed with this young Guarani
woman from the village of approx. 400 Indians in Brakui, Angra dos Reis,
I noticed her elderly grandmother in the background seated proudly
upright and looking around at her sleeping people.
I could feel her humiliation and her pain and I felt very small indeed.
I did not take her photo because she did not wish me to.
The
other Guarani in this photo series from Paraty will be receiving copies
of their photos on my return trip to their village, where my
organization is supporting some of the youth with their artisan efforts. The
indigenous women of our planet had their lands stolen, their cultures
and spiritual beliefs lacerated, their lives sheared and then
generations and generations of their children discriminated in the urban
and agricultural society, rejected by politicians and businessmen
alike. They had their cultures hung in Museums or demonstrated in
Carnival parades, as beings of the past, or something folkloric, serving
as jesters begging for alms in citadels. The men get drunk and turn
weak or go crazy. Their children become fragile and a wave of
destruction covers entire tribes, until strong women and men, like the
many leaders to come, listen to the voice of their ancestry, seeing the
marks of genipap set in the ethnic faces as a mark imposed by Me -
NHENDIRU, the Creator - and then feel the eternal call of their
INDIGENOUS IDENTITY to be respected and accepted as an example for the planet
Earth.
Example of a humane cultural society that bled, then recovered their
ancestral voice and ethics, surviving the process of slavery of the past
and the present so that it could really teach the philosophy of
equality and fraternity. Because the indigenous peoples are my
first-born children of the five continents, being the first ones whom I
placed in this planet, for knowing the principle ethics of the balance
of nature. Indigenous people should be examples of GOOD CONVIVIALITY
WITH SOCIETY AND WITH NATURE. An example of ethical and spiritual
prosperity.
Text by: Eliane Potiguara
GRUMIN – Indigenous Communication NetworkA violação aos Direitos IndígenasAs
mulheres indígenas do planeta terão suas terras roubadas, suas culturas
e espiritualidades dilaceradas, suas vidas ceifadas e gerações e
gerações de filhos discriminados na sociedade urbana e rural e
desprezados pelos políticos e empresários. Terão suas culturas
penduradas em Museus ou demonstradas em desfiles de Carnaval, como seres
do passado, ou do folclore. Servirão de chacotas em cidadelas e pedirão
esmolas. Os homens se embriagarão e ficarão fracos ou loucos. Seus
filhos serão frágeis e uma onda de extermínio acobertará tribos
inteiras, até que mulheres e homens fortes, como muitos líderes que
virão ouçam a voz da ancestralidade, vejam as marcas de jenipapo
cravadas nas caras étnicas como uma marca imposta por Mim - NHENDIRU, o
Criador - e que sintam a chama eterna da IDENTIDADE INDÍGENA para ser
respeitada e aceita, como um exemplo para o planeta terra.
Exemplo de uma etnia humana que sangrou, retomou a voz ancestral e ética
e sobreviveu a todo o processo de escravidão do passado e do presente e
que realmente possa ensinar a filosofia da igualdade e fraternidade.
Porque os povos indígenas são meus filhos primogênitos dos cinco
continentes, foram os primeiros que Eu coloquei neste planeta, por
conhecerem o princípio ético do equilíbrio na natureza. Povos indígenas
devem ser exemplo do BOM CONVÍVIO COM A SOCIEDADE E A NATUREZA. Exemplo
de prosperidade ética e espiritual.
Texto de: Eliane Potiguara
GRUMIN - Rede de Comunicação Indígena
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