Amazon - Indigenous people resist dams
1,000 Indigenous peoples of the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon recently met for the first time in nearly 20 years to oppose dams planned for the river. They declared their opposition to the projects and vowed to take any action necessary to prevent their construction. The final letter from the meeting stated ““Our culture, our spirituality, and our survival are deeply rooted in the Xingu, and we depend on it for our existence ... We, who have protected our Xingu River do not accept the invisibility with which they wish to impose decisions upon us, nor the way we are treated with disdain by public officials … We demand respect.” For stories and images from the meeting, please see…
Amazon - Is not having children a form of resistance?
I used to work in the Amazon off and on - as an indigenous rights activist.Used to visit some very remote tribes - taking parasitologist and dentists into the jungle to address the medical problems of the communities.Anyway, one tribe had only been contacted very recently - during i believe in the 60s ... (i was there late 80s early 90s). Well as you can imagine the point of contact between their culture and western culture was devastating the point that the tribe believed it was apocalyptic - such horrors they faced - at the hands of white culture or western culture the women of that tribe decided that the events of the future were too doomed to bring children…
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