PEITA GIVES VISIBILITY TO THE MOVEMENT OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN

Through weekly videos, the protest brand will publicize stories of leaders and militants and launch a T-shirt with part of the profit reverted to the Jera Rete Xondaria Movement and Kakane Porã Village.

How is the struggle of women inside the villages? How is it for them to know that their lands were invaded by genocidal Europeans who decimated 90%* of Brazil's original population in less than 100 years of slavery and murder? What is it like to protect environmental reserves, human assets and not have your efforts recognized? What's it like to have people try to shove a culture and system down your throat that you don't want? In October and November, PEITA will bring stories of women invisible to colonial eyes, but who have leadership and militancy roles within their communities. The first video is with chief Juliana Kerexu Mirim Mariano, from the village Tekoa Takuaty, in Paranaguá and will be released on October 15th.

Not only that, the protest brand is launching the phrase 'Fight like a girl.' in the Guarani version, with part of the profit going to the Jera Rete Movement, organized by Eliane and Jéssica Gabriel de Castro, from Aldeia Kuaray Haxa (Guarçouba), which takes information about the rights of access to health, land demarcation, education, in addition to debating violence against women in villages in Paraná. A prize written in Kaingang will also be released and the proceeds will be used to build a children's dining room at Aldeia Kakane Porã, located on the outskirts of Curitiba.

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The proposal to make videos to give visibility to the cause and give away the profit came after PEITA was invited to participate in the first meeting of the Jera Rete Movement in July this year, in Aldeia Palmeirinha, in the municipality of Chopinzinho.

“The movement was created to help indigenous women who are unaware of their rights and who are forgotten in distant villages. For us, it is important to bring this information so that they know what to demand and how to defend themselves against violence, discrimination and machismo”, explains Eliane.

The Jera Rete Movement already has its second meeting scheduled for January 2020, in the city of Laranjeiras, where two villages will participate, also promoting unity between them. According to Eline, this time there will be two days of activities: one for conversation circles and the other for a friendly soccer game with the local women's team.

About the partnership, Eliane says that it was Nhanderú who crossed paths. “PEITA's struggle is the same as ours. We are indigenous and women and they are women, we fight for the same rights. Together we have more strength. The publicity will help our movement to be recognized”, he comments.

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In early 2019, the president of PEITA, Karina Gallon, took a course on politics for women that included people from all over Brazil. In it, she met Camila dos Santos e Silva who lives in Aldeia Kakane Porã, considered the second urban village in Brazil, a term that Camila already warns that she doesn’t like because “a village is a village”. There live 38 families.

In the center of the land, a hut was built that would initially be used for cultural activities, but the community felt the need for a school to teach Guarani and Kaingang for children and adults. As an educational institution, the space receives lunch from the State Department of Education of Paraná, but because it does not have a dining room with a kitchen, pantry, tables and chairs, it received a threat to cut supplies.

“Without demarcation, we do not have the basics that the 1988 Constitution guarantees us: health and differentiated education for indigenous peoples. It's not because we live in an urban territory that we don't need it. This partnership is very important because we are going to be able to accomplish something fundamental in my village: building a space so that the snack doesn't end”, emphasizes Camila.

The walls were raised, but windows, doors, ceiling, floor, electrical installation and water pipe are still missing. Once the structure is ready, SEED will supply the necessary appliances.

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From the 15th of October, for six Fridays, PEITA will release a video a week with the story of women who fight for their communities. In this first one, the speaker is chief Juliana Kerexu from Tekoa Takuaty. Also participating are Camila Santos e Silva and Rosane Salete Rodrigues from Kakane Porã, Eliane and Jéssica Gabriel de Castro from Kuaray Haxa and Myrian Krexu, one of the first indigenous doctors to graduate in Brazil. The order of the videos was defined according to the availability of each one.

“I try to imagine what it's like for someone to walk into my house and say that everything in there is cursed, that the way I dress is wrong, that my behavior will be reprimanded and that the values ​​I have learned and carried for generations justify enslaving and decimate my family. When I think about it, I see the colonial heritage that I carry, which only killed, stole and destroyed. That's what we did with the native peoples of Brazil and I understand that I'm part of that. Giving space and visibility to the speech of indigenous women is the least I can do as a white person. It's putting myself in the place of listening, solidarity and help for this re-appropriation of space to happen”, comments Karina Gallon, creator and president of PEITA.

The capture of the videos was carried out by the Origin Project, composed of photographers who seek to show the world the indigenous communities of southern Brazil.

Datasheet
Directed by: Karina Gallon
Producer: Luana Angreves
Co-production: Bruna Kamaroski and Nathalia Sibuya.
Videographer: Tamiris Tertuliano, Bruna Kamaroski and Luana Angreves.
Editing: Sofia Suplicy
Audio: Toro Creative Audio
Support: Project Origin


Photos: Bruna Kamaroski and Patrícia Carvalho.

* Data taken from the book Caliban and the Witch, by Silvia Federici, about genocide in Latin America.

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