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When at the beginning of all the white men from Europe, arrived here in Pindorama (Brazil), the indigenous found the strange and amid many tricks and holdings, a conflict was brewing in the thinking of each native, who was a victim of mistakes of the Europeans to take the land with all the riches, killed their fathers, enslaved their children, prostituted their daughters, instilled other creed religious festivals of the people of the forests, killed much of the native language and today the people of the forests that they are, in five hundred and fourteen years are confined in tiny reservations that made them endangered animals and under the constant threat of losing what's left.

 

Currently the practices of historical offenders repeat their descendants who now assume the government of Pindorama (Brazil), on the grounds of being the owners of the land and all that is in it, hold in reserves on the grounds that this is good for the people of the forests and the most serious is that convinced the people of the forest that is good to be in the reserve, are destroying the shamans in the promise of sending the doctors. Doctors do not come and now the people are without shaman and no doctor. Catch the disease of white to top it off the the people themselves, now also die with them.

 

Indigenous peoples, by mistake, were dubbed the Indians, a name that is not supported. But were forced to accept the cultural intervention. Indigenous peoples have names regardless of whether Tupinambá, Yanomami, Tenetehara, Xicrim, Hawk, Macaw, Tamoios, Guarani or any other people, each people owns a story with its own language, culture, way of educating our children, prepare warriors and own form of government. Every nation is a nation with land rights for being here before any other people.

 

But now landless in derivations of the majority of the injustices of the white men, who, in a short time will destroy everything, as they did with the lands they took from the ancestors and have not destroyed once people who still exist, thanks to protests and the support of white society groups that has been touched by the suffering and guarantee the rights that together, has secured part of the land even if he is cleared by farmers, landowners and squatters., which has full interest that lands of indigenous is emptied to possess like they own, if it can be said that the land owner has. The original people is not considered owner of the land, but part and son of the soil.

 

The people of the forests have since ancient living in harmony with Mother Earth, because she gives us food, housing and conditions for raising children in respect of the way with all its components, which are gifts for the maintenance of life social, cultural and scientific for all generations and people.

 

Our parents tell us and taught from the earliest understandings and first steps, when we asked the first questions, the soil in which we stand, the water we drink, we prepare to our food, which relieves our heat, the trees that give us the fruits, shadows, houses and canoes; the rivers in which canoamos, which give us the fish and the animals that live in the waters and land who live with us; the sun the moon, the stars; the wind, the darkness and the calm, cold and heat, early on, our parents directed our learning as we practice and maintain our culture, how to seek food in nature without causing damage to plants, rivers and other animals to quench our hunger without any damage to ever we were to miss as seen men "civilized" making the earth, air, rivers, beaches, their animals all in museums, spoiling food and do not know the sky or birds . It's all wrong for themselves. We do not want them to occupy our lands to do as they do with the ones they have already taken in. We have doubts. To want land if not respect their function and your pain and your life. Then when she happens to revolt and make your revenge or justice charge of their God, which is not to blame.

 

 

Some relatives consequence of confinement on reservations learned with other people and contacts with whites the practice of agriculture, which, although it is handmade, helped a lot and will continue to help indigenous peoples to stop move constantly, without deforestation, but making use the meadows, fields and espaças vegetation areas for planting seeds and roots. Also adopted the domestication and breeding of animals for their food and as fish farming in natural ponds.

 

The birds are slaughtered for food are utilized penalties for the making of ornaments and decorations for use in the festivities, clashes with invaders, sporting events and everyday activities.

So has developed and continues to be done directing the educational learning of indigenous peoples and, therefore, all knowledge is being passed on to the descendants always focused on the continued cultivation, recovery and protection of its natural heritage under the direction of chief and shaman.

 

 

Historically contact with white men has caused great suffering, introduced great evils that are becoming almost irreversible eradication of evils such as: the introduction of alcohol, drugs synthesized, processed food products, which, with its preservatives has intensified diseases such as high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, kidney problems, stomach and allergic processes.

 

The entry of the capitalist system within the original people, has led to the inclusion in the purchase and sales system, as another consumer market to be exploited and it has harvested the ills of society dominated by money and make the man white whose principle explore mother earth to have money. The people of the forests can maintain their society, government, life and nature without money, so we live in harmony with nature.

 

 

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The great gulf between these two cultures occurs because of the way it treats the mother earth. The society of white men uses the mother earth as a source of wealth, and therefore exploits, destroys, clogs, cava, deforestation, contaminates rivers, beaches, seas, sources of streams, pollutes the air, killing themselves, while the society of the people of the forests have the earth as mother, so is its greatest asset and therefore, does not cause any act against their main source of sustenance of life, mother earth and neither is allowed to make another. So there is the cry of indigenous peoples in their songs, the evils that white men do with your mother.

 

We may be money users as they do in many villages where the consumer market of industrial products is already a routine, away from the practice of acquisition of natural foods. This is alien to our culture, because with so there will be the need for disposal of waste of every kind and nature that by not having a target policy falls slowly destroy the earth mother. Now it is known that industrial society and objective shopkeeper who become their consumers of clothing, jewelry, paintings, perfumes, home appliances making our culture is abandoned.

 

Do not rule out the use of these things all. But if we have to choose all modern conveniences to strike the earth mother, prefer to stay without this "modernity" because what hurts our mother is not modern. So we return to our natural fish, our fighters, bejus fruits and roots

The relationship with the white man had to have some benefits with respect to security of our land rights, as many organized groups of civil society has positioned itself in the fight against the farmers, squatters, businessmen, religious and picks NGOs, government officials municipal, state and federal guarantee for our land, place of our housing, our customs, that they have infinite gratitude impossible compensation for the good that has given us the appreciation of mother earth process.

 

Another benefit is about the tools and utensils for hunting and agriculture, clothing, means of transport that has provided us with ease in our daily activities without have to produce waste, pollution of rivers and deforestation.

 

The original people but want the benefits of communications technology, transportation, clothing, housing, sanitation, health, scientific knowledge produced by the white man, since that does not compromise the culture, food, fashion lifestyle education for a preliminary way for people of the forest. We want to absorb the white man's culture without losing our that our parents left us. Just as we want the white man to absorb the culture of our people without leaving their culture.

 

This is how the expressions: "indigenous education" or "indigenous education" the way they are being offered and defended, not good for indigenous peoples for the simple fact of not considering in practice the greatest assets we have. Value that is not in the schools of white men. Therefore how to educate offered, has not attracted the interest of indigenous peoples, as it represents an idea that the indigenous is not educated, civilized, therefore unable to say the very Constitution in Article 4, § single of the Federal Constitution. We want the knowledge taught in the way we educate. In this we see the school education as it stands, is something harmful to nature, and if it is bad for nature is bad for the Indians.

 

It is true that indigenous peoples do not have the scientific knowledge to the level of knowledge of the whites, much less their understanding of the world. Just as whites do not know the technology and the understanding that forest peoples have of survival, medicine, method of making the delivery in their pregnant, even though empirical. In this, the people of the forests comparing their society to society of white men and seeing the incompatibility, there is no possibility to accept that they are civilized, time to live need to contaminate the environment, destroy flora, clog streams, contaminating soil , polluting the air they breathe, rivers and beaches where bathing, build landfills, thus creating the conditions for the emergence of incurable diseases because of poor diet, sedentary lifestyle because of everything they do always have a machine that helps even for small activities, which affect all life. So, on the one hand is all easy, on the other are fragile and tire with little effort, sick for anything and just very bad way. For all this, the native peoples do not see any charm in "civilization", the incomprehensible way to relate to mother earth, which is for her and for the people of the greatest suffering forests because that is what gives us all so much for the people of the cities and for the people of the forest and everything in it, from birth to the grave.

 

The people of the forest is considered by the white man and his government as incompetent. This, by the people of the forests are not part of the customs, culture, do not understand the way of life and the strange customs of the people of the city. But for the people of the forests, also white men are considered incapable in greater depth because they also do not understand, nor has it a priority to understand the value that indigenous peoples have for anthropological history of the nation, so the people of the forest for its culture can offer. This shows that not even value their own history as well as the entire nation, because if it did, the people of the forests would be treated as precious jewels for all; the same way that an Indian boy comes an elderly in the village. Because even people of the forests by the millions, being here a long, much longer than white men, their wives and children, there was no contamination, deforestation or any damage to our mother who had caused. It was only the "civilized" people get both Mother Nature reaped evil, as we also much of our people decimated and continues to this day. Then the white man remains unable to respect nature and when she gives the answer, they can not see that are same as they dig their own grave and begin to blame the government themselves. Actually incapable we are not the people of the forest.

 

Another point is that when in 1988 enacted the Federal Constitution, at no time was summoned any of the representatives of indigenous peoples in order to participate in the constitutional framework. They wanted to defend our rights without knowing what we think is right. They want to educate as if we had no education and without knowing what it is for the people of the forests the meaning of education. Want to introduce in our country, the murderous culture of mother earth. This way we do not participate and do not agree and so we will continue disagree.

 

People of the forests has no attraction for education in molds offered and defended by the people of the city, because in essence teaches how to explore mother earth in a sustainable way. This understanding is not in tune with the understanding that the people of the forest has on the mother earth considers that mother earth must not be exploited, but of what it offers live without exploitation, without waste, without producing unnecessary waste without producing inventions serving to feed the ostentation and display be different or superior to the other.

 

What the people of the forests need recognition as owners of a natural cultural heritage dating back to history, which was created as a result of spiritual need, survival, war and sports. It is the result of the need for ostentation, discrimination and worship the difference.

 

The people of the forests are attacked by people when the cities are seen as education needs. No need education. Need is polyculture, socialization of scientific knowledge equally. We want the white man speak our language in order to understand what we think, we want them to respect nature so that we do not lose our relationship with our mother earth and the people of the cities are not left without their livelihood also want the white man treat us with the same respect that communities are treated: Japanese, German, Italian, Dutch and now the Haitian and outas who came from Europe and to come. People want the woods treated in the same way they treat other people as provided in the Constitution when he says that the foreigner in Brazilian soil has equal rights with Brazilians. This same treatment, people of the forests that precede any other people who now lives Pindorama, is not guaranteed. Much less the rights of priority, existing priority even before there nation.

 

The people of the forests have no structure to combat squatters, landowners, farmers, loggers and gunmen with more powerful weapons that destroy our in faster just because defend what is ours in fact, law and legitimacy. If another reality they would do the same if they were their rights or property that had threatened.

 

The people of the forest do not want to lose its people, their customs, way of life, before the day comes naturally to fall back to the lap of Mother Earth, which has also made sure that sooner or later, white men with medical or no doctor, modernity, comfort and ostentation down into her lap that they explored "sustainably". The people of the forest live in harmony with mother earth with much of the remedies that the people of the cities with the distinction of being natural.

 

Since our parents did not need money to live. But today we are being a paramount need to accept the consumerist system that we can not remain indifferent because with the coming of the Internet and television is very difficult to control human impulses for the things of the people of the town. We do not see this as harmful. But the way it is presented without showing what to do when such property, object and packages when it becomes waste which will surely harm the mother earth, the absence of reverse policy that deals with the responsible disposal of production and allocation of losing the utility which is highly irresponsible with the environment and with himself.

 

It is understood that the Indian reservations are landowners who has great mineral wealth, forest and animals that everyone is interested in exploring it in the same way that explored the lands where they live. Now this is very clear. Just look at the situation of the Tietê River, very close to us, the sewers of the cities on the beaches, the dumps in the cities. All doing suffer mother earth. This is the biggest reason so many conflicts between the people of the cities and towns of the woods. Those want to kill our mother and they want to protect it. Not too many of our relatives have been decimated because from the beginning Mother Earth has always traveled together with our people who at one time were the goods themselves as slaves.

 

So, the present shows that all core values ​​to life is fully linked to goods and possessions and this is achieved by the exploitation of mother earth as minerals for jewelry, means of transportation, weapons, food, clothing and shoes that are needed but not beyond what is necessary as to be disposed of in landfills than other scavenge for their livelihood. This reality makes the earth mother suffer so she agonizes causing major disasters to the people of the cities. That is why we believe that the white education is bad for us. Just because the man "civilized" values ​​more money, social status, possession of that life and live well with dignity and in harmony with Mother Earth.

 

It is understood the importance of money for the facilitation of trade for the survival of people who do not have the ability of working directly Mother Earth, its rivers and forests, but can not be better than the the self, life , health values ​​that make us fight for the preservation of Mother Earth.

 

So to the people of the land to forests does not produce wealth. She is wealth and sustenance. Anyway, it's Mother. The people of the cities see Mother Earth as the source of the money, dignity, equality, wisdom, respect, humanity all originating from the money, money and money. Including education, health and everything in the city of society as if he needed only money to live and no food. For indigenous peoples and their relatives, this is not so. Mother Earth, is education source who educated our parents to preserve all life harmoniously.

 

Sometimes around the campfire our masters (shaman, chief, elders and elders), make us think demonstrating their concerns about how it will be our future living around money without hurting our Mother Earth. Contrary to what the men of the cities do not because we want to follow his example. We are afraid of it because it is very confusing as they even preach the preservation and so do until they need it when you think it is necessary to forget the preservation, sustainability and destroy everything.

 

The people of the forest, as a matter of socialization want to have agreements with the society of white men. It also means that relatives are of another race. Even though they deny. We want harmony in life. We do not want to continue fighting. This is bad for us, and for the people of the cities even if there is incompatibility of fighting conditions, ideology, physical, technological, cultural and scientific. One can even talk that is what is being sought at all times. But the conflict of interest prevents the clear reason: the white man does not know how to live.

 

It is concluded that this statement reflects the thinking in general of all forest peoples, without considering the specific chaos of every people in the hope that one day the children of white men marry the daughters of men of forests and children Men's forests marry the daughters of men of cities and have sons and daughters who do not lose their origins and do not deny their ancestors, but each preserves its name, history, culture and respecting Mother Earth as it was we came , live in it and her arms back. We brought nothing and nothing will take, but it kept us going during the time of our life with everything we need with nothing missing and she will be here for the next human beings, which certainly will be more human than us.

 

Miguel da Silva Guimaraes (Tenetehara)

 

May 18, 2014