2023-07-17 16:23:19
“Our history exists, it is alive, and that is exactly why we defend our land so much”. It is through declarations such as that of the Kayapó leader, Maial Paiakan, in an interview to the book Indigenous Peoples in Brazil 2017-2022that the special podcast series Copiô, Relative! demonstrates the importance of the indigenous struggle and the preservation of the living and collective memory of the more than 260 peoples that inhabit the country.
Launched by Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), the series aims to expand the reading of the collection of books ‘Povos Indígenas no Brasil’. For this, the special brings the backstage of the publication, testimonials and interviews on topics such as the current situation of indigenous peoples in Brazil; art; land demarcation; current political context and in the last six years; and changes in indigenous policies.
With fortnightly episodes of about 15 minutes, the series has its narrative permeated by the voices of seven indigenous leaders. Are they:
Maurício Ye’kwana, director of the Hutukara Yanomami Association, Yanomami Indigenous Land (RR);
Francy Baniwa, anthropologist from the baniwa people and Upper Rio Negro Indigenous Land (AM);
João Victor, environmental activist and communicator for the Pankararu people and Pankararu Indigenous Land (PE);
Kerexu Yxapyry, secretary for indigenous environmental and territorial rights at the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (MPI), of the the Guarani Mbya people and Morro dos Cavalos Indigenous Land (SC);
Maial Paiakan, human rights and indigenous rights activist Kayapóyes Kayapó Indigenous Land (PA);
Angela Kaxuyana, member of the executive coordination of the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (Coiab) of the Kaxuyana peopleyes Kaxuyana-Tunayana Indigenous Land (BYE); e
Vanda Witoto, activist, speaker and educator at the Witoto people from Alto Solimões (AM).
Next to them, the presenters Gilmar Galache, from the Terena people, and Ester Cezar, a journalist from ISA, conduct the thematic interviews of each episode.
In the premiere of the series, anthropologist Fany Ricardo talks about the creation of the ‘Indigenous Peoples in Brazil’ collection. Founder of ISA and the collection, in the episode the anthropologist talks about the importance of the work carried out to draw a picture of the indigenous situation in the last four decades. For her, the objective remains the same: “it is a way of showing the issue and trying to influence so that the indigenous policy is [a fim de] to guarantee indigenous, isolated and long-contact rights, to recognize lands”.
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In the series, the question ”Who are the indigenous peoples? opens the discussion of one of the episodes. To answer the question, Copiô, Parente! interviewed anthropologist Tatiane Klein, one of the editors of the collection. With about 1.5 million indigenous people, from about 266 peoples, speakers of more than 200 languages, the episode addresses the different realities, identification processes and pressures experienced by indigenous peoples in Brazil.
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For the anthropologist, the book makes an attempt to show a little of this diversity but which, necessarily, is incomplete in the publication, even with more than forty years of production involving a whole network of indigenous collaborators, indigenists and professionals in the area. “It’s always an incomplete portrait, but at the same time I think it’s important to be incomplete, because it shows that these are peoples who are reappearing”, she points out.
To talk about the challenges faced by indigenous peoples in the period portrayed by the book, from 2017 to 2022, in turn, the podcast features an interview with ISA’s lawyer, Juliana de Paula Batista. One of the points explored by the lawyer marks the beginning of anti-indigenous policies, such as the publication of an opinion that conditioned the demarcation of Indigenous Lands to the so-called Temporal Framework.
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For her, this was the main setback during the Temer government (2016-2019), which put the rights of indigenous peoples over their lands at risk. “This becomes a dispute argument for the ruralist caucus, for people who are interested in annulling the demarcations and making the territorial rights of indigenous people unfeasible”, she argued.
The series also brings the indigenous theme in art to wake up memory and resist, with an interview with artist, activist, curator and educator Daiara Tukano. In the episode, the artist brings the difficulties faced by indigenous people to insert themselves in spaces.
“We enter these spaces, in a way, out of embarrassment. Because we are the last group to enter any space. It’s impressive. We are the last group in society to enter the university and we are also the last group in society to enter to be recognized within this art space”, he says. On the other hand, she points out that this scenario is changing, and there are more and more curators and indigenous artists.
Indigenous Peoples in Brazil 2017-2022
Created in the 1980s by the Ecumenical Center for Documentation and Information (CEDI), the organization that gave rise to ISA, the publication ‘Povos Indígenas no Brasil’ was born to give visibility to indigenous peoples and the devastation of their territories, little known at the time, even by experts.
The most recent edition, ‘Povos Indígenas no Brasil 2017-2022’, published by ISA, brings in its more than 800 pages testimonials, articles, interviews in an attempt to portray and record contemporary indigenous history.
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