2023-09-11 15:50:00
The trajectory of struggles and achievements of women from the Rio Negro within the indigenous movement and the creation of the Department of Indigenous Women of the Federation of Indigenous Organizations of the Rio Negro (DMIRN-FOIRN) is narrated in the documentary “Rionegrinas”, which will be released on 12th September, in Brasilia, at the Coexistence Center for Indigenous Peoples of UnB (Maloca).
A delegation of around 40 women from the middle and upper Rio Negro, in Amazonas, will be at the launch of the film, which celebrates 20 years of DMIRN-FOIRN. The department was created in 2002 and reached its 20th anniversary in 2022, but the celebrations are happening now.
The group participates in the III March of Indigenous Women – Biomas Women in Defense of Biodiversity through Ancestral Roots, organized by the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (Anmiga).
The delegation takes the diversity of the Negro River to Brasília, with women from the Baré, Tukano, Baniwa, Yanomami, Piratapuia, Wanano and Hupda peoples. Three communicators from the Wayuri Network are also part of: Cláudia Ferraz, from the Wanano people, Suellen Samanta, from the Baré people, and Deise Alencar, from the Tukano people. Coverage can be tracked on the Wayuri Network’s Instagram.
Among the leaders are Dadá Baniwa, regional coordinator of Funai on the Negro River and former coordinator of DMIRN, Elizângela Baré, former coordinator of DMIRN and communicator at Agência Sumaúma, and Francy Baniwa, former coordinator of DMIRN, anthropologist and writer.
Caravan of women from Rio Negro goes to Brasília to celebrate 20 years of DMIRN during the III March of Indigenous Women |Ana Amélia Hamdan/ISA
The DMIRN Coordinator, Cleocimara Reis, from the Piratapuia people, talks about valuing the history of the department.
“These women were our inspirations. It was not easy to create the DMIRN, it took a lot of struggle and discussion. It’s a story we need to save for other women to come.”
The film tells, through testimonies of indigenous women, the struggle for space, territory, income and sustainability, from the farms to the universities, from the home-territory to public positions.
“They gave me a very small room. There was barely room for me, a table and a chair. What am I going to do with just this table and chair?”, recalls Cecília Albuquerque, from the Piratapuia people, the first DMIRN coordinator.
Today, DMIRN has a coordinator, Cleocimara Reis, Piratapuia people, and five regional coordinators who enable constant dialogue with the indigenous territory of the Rio Negro, where people of 23 ethnicities live in approximately 750 sites and communities in the municipalities of São Gabriel da Cachoeira , Santa Isabel do Rio Negro and Barcelos (AM).
The department’s priority agendas are gender equity, support for indigenous women’s associations, income generation and sustainability, strengthening knowledge, indigenous medicine and the traditional agricultural system, in addition to tackling the impacts of the climate emergency and women’s rights.
Produced in partnership by Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), DMIRN and FOIRN, the documentary “Rionegrinas” is directed and scripted by documentary filmmaker Fernanda Ligabue and ISA’s socio-environmental policy coordinator, Juliana Radler, with collaboration from Dadá Baniwa, Carla Dias, Dulce Morais and Ana Amelia Hamdan.
Also in commemoration of the 20 years of the DMIRN, the book “As Mães do DMIRN – Achievements and Challenges” and the Department of Indigenous Women websitean instrument of communication and strengthening of the department.
Read also: Body is territory: indigenous women unite to guarantee rights and define the direction of the political village
Release of the documentary “Rionegrinas”
Date: 9/12, at 6:30 pm
Location: UnB Indigenous Peoples Coexistence Center (Maloca)
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