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The indigenous peoples exists because of their territory
The day
you take away their territory
you're
destining or are handing them to a
large suicide
where it will be finished as a culture, as a people, why, because the indigenous people
will be
foreigner in his own territory, why, because companies ...
or I do not know how many
being indigenous, masters of their own territory, they will be beggars
in their territory. That is what the government is destining them to be, so
the territory for us is sacred, because it goes beyond the
land, beyond what is grown
Here
are our spirits, our political and social worldview
everything lies here,
our religiosity
then it is sacred, all that is ours, because the government,
Westerners ...
interpret very differently
what we think
but we
as an Eastern peoples
we conceive
the forest,
the woods, the air, the hills, are our brothers
we cannot damage them because I'm going to die if I damage it
because I depend on it
and depend on the hill,
I depend on the rivers, the creeks, depend on the trees,
depend plants
there is an interrelationship
a dependency
and that the Westerner does not understand. For Westerners
the whole ground
what is the terrain, territory, the forest, is market
the more I gain, the better. What I can exploit
and finish
then
I take the territory from people who live there
without understanding their idiosyncrasies, their life
I am elminating them
So that is why it is very sacred, because of that coexistence that the indigenous people have
with its forest, with its territory,
with its hills
That is our religion!
Our Bible is written there
our myths are there
then in order to find that you must who lives with us,
for years
then you become
he may be a white man
he may be a bearded man, but living with the indigenous peoples ha can become indigenous in his heart
Why? because
he finally conceived the ideas that we have
then he becomes part of that struggle.