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I Support the Indigenous Cause

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:52:40 -0700

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After some 2 years without publishing pictures in Flickr, I was hoping to be back with positive news about the Indigenous Rights issues in my country.
Sadly, I'm back here again to ask more help.

The model of development that Brazil is rising in the last years could have some strong positive points, but some issues related with the environment, sustainability, violence and disrespect of the Indigenous and Traditional Communities rights (as Quilombolas - historic afro-brazilian communities) are just going worst.

You've probably heard about Belo Monte Dam and other projects in the Amazon area, troubles with deforestation, monoculture, and lands issues through country. The Brazilian Association of Judges for Democracy (www.ajd.org.br/) released a campaign named "I Support the Indigenous Cause" and are asking for signatures.

I support the Indigenous Cause:
Against the PEC 215 (proposed constitutional amendment)
Demarcation of the Indigenous Lands
Urgency in Court Decisions

There are more detailed information rolling the bar on the link.
I Support the Indigenous Cause
If you agree, you can sign the petition that will be sent to the Supreme Court, the President of the Republic, the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Please, share the campaign with your contacts.

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Eu Apoio a Causa Indígena
Check the link for other languages: Português / Español / Français / Italiano / English

Photo: Kayapó women were singing and dancing their traditions during the Indigenous National Festival, 2012. Bertioga, SP, Brazil.

do we have a future?

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:08:40 -0700

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In the middle of many debates about elections, sustainable development, social responsibility...
what would be the real future for Xingu People of Brazil?

Petition (english)
salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2486/p/dia/action/public/?a...

Abaixo-assinado (português)
hq-salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2486/l/por/p/dia/action/...

> A tired Kayapo child, during the Indigenous National Festival.

maloca - Amazonas

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:32:10 -0700

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Home for 22 familes, Itacoatiara Mirim is a Baniwa Comunity around São Gabriel da Cachoeira town. "Maloca", also knowed as House of Knowledge is their common site to recover traditions.

dance with flute- Amazonas

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:05:30 -0700

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Back to the House of Knowledge, at Itacoatiara Mirim Community.
São Gabriel da Cachoeira town, Amazonas state.

mourning chant to Peru - Brazil

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:36:18 -0700

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Ashaninka man watching fireworks at the Indigenous National Party, at Bertioga.

guardians challenge- Amazonas

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:19:11 -0700

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Rescuing their ancestor's traditions at the House of Knowledge, the indigenous people group living at Itacoatiara Mirim community, beside the town of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, face the difficulties of transitions and the shock of the economic development impact in the extreme northeast of Amazonas state. They seek how to preserve identities, cultural values, while an avalanche of new economic needs are born every day.

Meanwhile, last Friday (June, 5), at least 31 people have died in clashes in Peru between the security forces and indigenous people in the Amazon region. Those killed included at least 22 tribesmen and nine policemen. The violence took place as security forces tried to end a road blockade, a jungle highway near the town of Bagua.
They are opposed to plans by the government of President Alan Garcia to open up communal jungle lands for oil exploration, logging, mining and large-scale farming.

More info, here:
Laws criticized by Peru's indigenous groups
You can sign a letter to President Alan Garcia here:
Peru-Action-Alert

the Jabuti spirit can sing- Amazonas

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:37:09 -0700

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Embraced by his friend that was playing the flute, they danced together.
It was the first time I've seen someone playing a Jabuti's (turtle) hull.
The sound was a vibration produced by the friction of his warm hand,
in a constant rhythm, giving me a sense of transe.
Hypnotic and beautiful.

In the House of Knowledge at São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas.

An Indigenous Bará was playing the flute, and the Jabuti's musician is Baniwa.

linked- Amazonas

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:43:14 -0700

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Party time, celebration with dance and flutes at the House of Knowledge.
Tools and connections for the community power.
Hold tight.

São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas.

Bará- Amazonas

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:28:09 -0700

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A Bará Indigenous man that is living at São Gabriel da Cachoeira, found at the Maloca (House of Knowledge) a secure place to express his own traditions and share with the community. With a peculiar humor, he was listed as 'dangerous indigenous man' by the Baniwa's leader of the community because he has a mustache (not very usual here).
Bará People are very rare, a estimative about their group in Brazil is about only 39 people. His original tribe is near the frontier with Colômbia, around Papuri river.

São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas.
Info: ISA: Povo Bará

maloca's gate- Amazonas

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:48:55 -0700

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There are 22 familes living at Itacoatiara Mirim, a Baniwa Comunity around São Gabriel da Cachoeira town. To recover their traditions after leaving the original tribe, they built this "Maloca", also knowed as House of Knowledge.

"House of Knowledge is an area of transmission and learning of the traditional culture for those who do not know or forgot. It's to talk, tell stories of past, reliving the custom to eat together. A place to dance, make instruments, showing the young our culture" explained Mestre Luiz Laureano, community leader. "The House of Knowledge is also to receive relatives who come from the original tribe to share with us the stories of our family who were there. Is a school that will pass knowledge. "

São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas.

Info - ISA - Índios e a Casa de Conhecimento

veins as rivers - Amazonas

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:10:50 -0700

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Feliciano's veins,
rivers of dreams and spirituality.
Story teller, visual artist and healer.

Feliciano is a Desana curandero.

São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas.

do not play

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:11:43 -0700

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A Bororo man scares me playing his flute,
during the Indigenous National Festival.
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A campaign to prevent the Chamber of Deputies vote a project to reduce the legal reserve of the Amazon is being conducted by Greenpeace with support from other civil society organisations. The PL 6424/2005, called "Forest 0", reducing the reserves of the Amazon legal private property from 80% to 50% and allows an offset deforestation in different areas of the originals. The text, authored by Senator Flexa Ribeiro (PSDB-PA), also opens space for the planting of so-called energy plants (such as palm, castor bean, babassu and sugar cane). To support the campaign, sign here (I found it only in portuguese):
"Half Amazon No!"

Uma campanha para impedir que a Câmara dos Deputados vote um projeto para reduzir a reserva legal da Amazônia está sendo conduzida pelo Greenpeace com apoio de outras organizações da sociedade civil. O PL 6424/2005, batizado de "Floresta 0", reduz as reservas legais da Amazônia em propriedades privadas de 80% para 50% e permite compensar um desmatamento em áreas diferentes das originais. O texto, de autoria do senador Flexa Ribeiro (PSDB-PA), também abre espaço para o plantio das chamadas plantas energéticas (como palmeiras, mamona, babaçu e cana-de-açúcar). Para apoiar a campanha, assine aqui:
“Meia Amazônia Não!”

steps

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:29:06 -0700

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"What is an adult?
A child blown up by age."
Simone de Beauvoir

Boys and men,
future and warriors,
from Xingu, the beating Amazonia's heart,
during the Indigenous National Festival.

a quest

nobody@flickr.com (© Tatiana Cardeal) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:45:10 -0700

exploring

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new angles for a visual language, as an offer,
to communicate how we see and feel the world to others

A young Yanomami photographing the cerimonial dance of the Xingu Nations,
at the VIII Indigenous Festival.
Detailed information of this set here

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

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I've been admiring him form a long time,
a strong shaman with strong words,
embracing the environment for his people (and for us).
It was a great honor for me to meet him and to make his portrait.

"The invasion of the Yanomami lands by about 30,000 to 40,000 garimpeiros cost the lives, between 1987 and 1990, of more than 1,000 Yanomami in Brazil. Shocked with this tragedy, which revived in him the reminiscences of the epidemics that decimated his family in the 1960s, Davi Kopenawa engaged himself in a relentless struggle against the destruction of his people and of his land's forest. Thanks to his experience with the whites and the intellectual solidity his shamanistic knowledge gives him, he soon became the main spokesman for the yanomami cause in Brazil and in the world."
To read more:
ISA Narratives The Saga of Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

Davi is a winner of the UN Global 500 award, and was a key figure in the campaign
that resulted in the demarcation of the Yanomami's land in 1992.

Xavante People, Brazil

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> Xavante warriors at the Indigenous National Festival.

Today is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.

Hoje é Dia Internacional dos Povos Indígenas.

changes - Amazonas

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Past and future, a piece of the painted structure in the House of Knowledge at Itacoatiara Mirim, and a boy from this Baniwa Comunity, around São Gabriel da Cachoeira town, Amazonas.

An adieu to Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009).

el curandero - Amazonas

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Seu Feliciano showed his visions and paintings,
his heartfelt fields of reality, a magic world.
Feliciano Lana is a Desana Indigenous, a story teller, a healer and a visual artist.

São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas.

Bororo

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"The term Bororo means, in the native tongue, 'village court'. Not by coincidence, the traditional circular distribution of the houses make of the court the village center and the ritual space for this people, which is characterized by a complex social organization and a rich ceremonial life."
Paulo Serpa, at ISA (Instituto Socioambiental)

>The picture was made at the Indigenous Meeting at Betioga city.
Bororo population was about 1.024 (in 1997),
and they are living in the state of Mato Grosso.