Camila talks about invisibility at the university, defense of territory and indigenous culture.
PEITA launches the second video in the series “Stories of women invisible to colonial eyes”. This time, Camila dos Santos, from the Kaingang ethnic group, lives in Kakané Porã village, on the outskirts of Curitiba, who shares her struggles and concerns. Your community is at risk of losing the children's right to lunch if you don't finish building the children's cafeteria.
“It is a lot of preaching of rights and little empathy. Those who do not practice empathy do not know what collective struggle is. You'll never know.”
praises Camila when she talks about the importance of indigenous women occupying spaces within universities and being perceived by people who study the culture of indigenous peoples. “You have to go to an anthropologist and explain that five thousand years ago the Kaingang were already here. 3 thousand years ago, Guarani was already here and the university was built in a space that is mine and that I'm just occupying a space that is mine. And that I only have 10 spots to fill. Is very little".
The territorial issue is very present in the university student's testimony. He could also know that his people were exterminated with the European invasion 519 years ago and continue to be oppressed and ignored by the State, it is revolting. “White people enter a land and take everything away, not indigenous people, they just want to be able to survive. We are not against progress, I think preservation is progress. It’s obvious and everyone knows it”, he explains.
The defense of indigenous rights is urgent.
“I'm in a hurry, you know?! Can't wait any longer. There has to be a reform within the city, within the university. We can no longer say that there are no indigenous people. Today we take the bus with indigenous people, we go to XV, there are indigenous people, we are at the university, there are indigenous people, today you have indigenous doctors, you have indigenous lawyers, professionals in various indigenous areas. We can no longer close our eyes and say 'I don't know'”, he concludes.
According to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), there are about 900,000 indigenous people in Brazil, who are divided into 305 ethnic groups and speak at least 274 languages. The data make Brazil one of the countries with the greatest sociocultural diversity on the planet.
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( • ) BREAST KAINGANG AND GUARANI VERSION
The way that PEITA found to support was to give voice and visibility to the story of Camila and the Kaingang and Guarani teacher from the Kakané Porã village, Rosane Salete Rodrigues (who also helped us with the translation of the phrase) and to launch “Fight as a girl .” in the kaingang version, with part of the profit reverted to the structuring of the space that will also be a place for community integration and exchanges.
The protest brand is anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-LGBTphobic and anti-colonialist, a position that is visible in its actions and partnerships.
"When we change our perception of the 'discovery' of Brazil to an invasion, there is no way we can go on thinking that we are not part of that history. There is no way we can leave indigenous peoples in the illustrations of school books. anyway, it is unacceptable not to value and make our original peoples visible. Helping in the construction of the Kakané Porã cafeteria is to show that we care and, within what is within our reach at that moment, it is the least we can do to return what was stolen from them ."
A prize was also launched in the Guarani language, which will help make the Jera Reta Movement viable, organized by Eliane and Jéssica Gabriel de Castro, from Aldeia Kuaray Haxa (Guarçouba).
( • ) SERIES WOMEN INVISIBLE TO COLONIAL EYES
In all, PEITA will release six minidocs during 2019 and early 2020. The first of them, released on October 15, features the speech of chief Juliana Kerexu Mirim Mariano, from the village Tekoa Takuaty, in Paranaguá, and is available on the social networks of the protest brand.
The project has the support of Projeto Origin, made up of photographers who seek to show the world the indigenous communities of southern Brazil, and the production company Toro Audio.
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Directed by: Karina Gallon
Producer: Luana Angreves
Co-production: Nathalia Sibuya.
Videographer: Patricia Carvalho and Luana Angreves.
Editing: Sofia Suplicy
Track: Kanhgág Ojik Nen Ga Group - Apucaraninha/PR.
Audio: Toro Audio
Support: Project Origin
Photos: Bruna Kamaroski and Patrícia Carvalho.
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