#Indígena

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“Lake Atitlan. Panajachel. 1992. Maya dancers in tiger costumes.” - Thomas Hoepker

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American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos

Even though I have recent indigenous ancestry in my own family, I never really realized Caribbean history is also indigenous history, too. I mean, I know it but tend to find that aside from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the rest of us are usually excluded from the narrative. So, it was very touching to see this work by John Leguizamo and others that is making a very intentional effort to actually tell this story without excluding us entirely for the sake of mestizaje or trying to seem superior (es decir: más distinto, más elevado) to black people.

"You can't have an inclusive democracy unless people understand how their histories are shared."

I'm glad to say I did actually get to learn about the advancements of the indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and South America in depth in primary school, the Olmecs, the Incas, the Maya, the Aztecs or the Mexica, but still was able to learn things I never knew or hadn't heard in a long time (and don't necessarily remember learning about in secondary school). By contrast, histories on the indigenous Caribbean (the Taíno, the Arawak, the Carib) has always been more heavily inconsistent and incomplete. (For example, these names might just be different names for the same people and the actual tribes spoke different languages and probably called themselves something else.) So, I really appreciated the care given to telling this part of the story.

"When history is written by the victors, we miss out on the perspective of the oppressed."

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«Yo no sé, y confieso mi ignorancia, si los historiadores de América han reparado en esta paradoja: que el ocaso de las culturas indígenas fue más acelerado y decisivo por causa precisamente del respeto ingénito que el español sentía por los indígenas en tanto hombres; es decir, por causa de la total indiferencia del español ante el aspecto racial de lo humano.»

Eduardo Nicol: El problema de la filosofía hispánica. Fondo de Cultura Económica, pág. 96. México, 1998.

TGO

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[tupiperiodico]

PORTUGUÊS 19 de abril é o Dia dos Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Quis mostrar neste desenho a história e o presente dos povos indígenas por aqui. Decidi desenhar onças, um animal nativo e que representa bravura. O homem está com o osso no queixo como está descrito nos livros de 1500. As cicatrizes mostram a luta para existir. O pedaço de pau é a ferramenta usada para sacrificar inimigos capturados. A mulher está segurando um bebê e um maracá. Os espíritos ancestrais vivem no maracá. Eles estão dizendo: opressores, queimadores de floresta e genocidas, sumam daqui! O bebê representa o futuro para os povos indígenas, que será feito sem esquecer da ancestralidade. O bandeirante é uma caveira. Decidi não associar nenhum animal com a crueldade dos bandeirantes. A caveira também representa a morte que a colonização trouxe. Incluí a bandeira do Brasil para mostrar que o Brasil foi construído apagando os povos indígenas.

GUARANI Japyrundy paporundy Ypykuéra ára hína Brasil-pe. Ahechaukase ko ta'angápe hembiasakue ha hekove ko'ag̃agua ko tetãme. Amoha'ã'akue jagua'áicha, peteĩ mymba ko'apegua ha'éva py'aguasu rechaukaha. Kuimba'e oguereko peteĩ kãngue hendyvápe, ojehaiva'ekue háicha aranduka 1500-arygua. Japihakuéra omoha'anga la ñorairõ hekóre. Pe yvyra ha'e tembiporu ojuka hag̃ua ipyhypyre. Kuña ningo oguereko peteĩ mitã'i ha mbaraka. Ypykuéra ánga oiko hína mbaraka pype. Poroguerekovaiha, ka'aguy hapyha ha porojukaha, pekañy, he'i hikuái. Mitã'i omoha'anga teko oútava ypykuérape g̃uarã, ojejapótava hembiasakue resarai'ỹ. La bandeirante ha'e akãkãngue háicha. Ndamoha'ã mymba bandeirante-kuéra poromombyasyha'ápe. Akãkãngue ohechauka avei te'õ ogueruva'ekue poroguerekovaiha. Amoĩ Brasil poyvi ahechauka hag̃ua ojejapoha ko tetã ypykuéra reko oñemboje'óvo.

ENGLISH April 19th is Indigenous Peoples' Day in Brazil. I wanted to show, in this piece, their history and present as well. I decided to draw them as jaguars, a native animal that represents courage. The man has a bone n his chin, as described in books from the 1500s. His scars show his struggle to survive. The piece of wood he's holding is a tool used to kill captured enemies. The woman is holding a baby and a maraca. The ancestors' spirits live in the maraca. They're saying: oppressors, forest burners and genociders, get lost! The baby represents the future to the indigenous people, which will be made without abandoning their ancestry. The bandeirante is a skull. I chose not to associate any animal with their cruelty. The skull also represents death brought by colonization. I included the Brazilian flag to show Brazil was made by erasing the native peoples.

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-Trouxeram lágrimas, trouxeram culto, que ecoa cultura. Cultura que não é só religião é também canção, algo que aquece coração, uma coisa que mexe com a pessoa sem intenção, assim lembro dos griôs. E as lágrimas me fazem lembrar de navios negreiros. E tudo sempre acaba naquilo.

Navio da vida me leve pois quero ficar.

[tjeromebaker]

Pensadoras del Abya Yala | La Importancia de los Feminismos Latinoamericanos

Que significa para los feminismos latino americanos, “Abya Yala”? Para una feminista de América Latina, la frase “Abya Yala” tiene un significado profundo y multifacético, relacionado tanto con la identidad cultural como con la resistencia política y la reivindicación de los derechos de los pueblos originarios. Aquí hay algunas interpretaciones claves del término “Abya Yala” en este…

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Flores de la llanura

dir. Mariana Xochiquétzal Rivera

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Amealco, Querétaro, MX

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Visita a Brasília - DF

Dos dias 19 a 22 de outubro estivemos como curso e como turistas no SINFOP, apresentamos trabalho e turistamos um pouco. Confesso que pra mim, a melhor parte foram as visitas e as conversas extra simpósio. E houveram lugres lindos, mas um em especial, não poderia não estar aqui.

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A Daiara é simplesmente sensacional, eu me vi perdida nas intervenções e nos desenhos, pinturas - e eu esqueci de tirar foto de tanta coisa por causa disso.... - É de tamanha beleza e socos no estômago, é coragem e resistência. Me perdi na sua arte e o tempo foi infinitamente pouco para apreciar o seu olhar do mundo. Não sei transcrever as sensações - o que mostra que ando escrevendo e me expressando pouco -, mas a mulher é sensacional, inteligentíssima e trás, na sutileza e nem só na sutileza, a ligação da mulher com a natureza, com o sagrado, com a vida. Ela é surreal, na verdade ela é muito real, virei fã, obviamente instantaneamente no momento em que pisei em sua exposição.

Foi uma experiência mágica, transcendental, eu não sei, mas fiquei tão impressionada que tirei poucas fotos, pois já tinha a consciência de que nada transportaria o sentimento de estar lá. Foi a coisa mais extraordinária que já vi.

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Shaman by Kypris Aquarelas

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[indio-politics]

If you participate in electoral politics, if you campaign or vote for colonizers, if you support the illegitimate colonial entity that is the United States, if you support the illegitimate colonial power that controls the lives, lands, and resources of Indigenous peoples (US territories and others) you are an enemy of Indigenous people, directly undermining our sovereignty, and participating in our genocide. “Vote blue no matter who” is anti-indigenous violence. Shaming, harassing, dehumanizing, and daring to BLAME indigenous people for our oppression if we exercise our right to not vote is anti-indigenous violence. You have no right to control Indigenous lands and peoples. If you vote or support voting, ESPECIALY if you dare to weaponize Black and Brown oppression and lives to justify harming us by voting, you are anti-indigenous and signing off on our genocide, so DO NOT INTERACT WITH ME. You are NOT WELCOME on my page.

[latin-american-diversity]

Kogi: The Indigenous people of the Colombian desert

The Kogis are one of the few indigenous people in South America who were able to maintain their pre-Columbian culture. Being a pacifistic ethnic group they never attempted to fight colonists and preferred to move to more isolated areas up the mountain, where they could continue to live their lives without much influence from western culture. They call themselves the “elder brothers” who are taking care of the “Heart of the World” (the Sierra Nevada) and protecting it from the “younger brothers” (non Kogi or Arhuaco Amerindians) who are destroying it. They believe if the “Heart of the World” get's out of balance it will affect the whole world. Having survived the Spanish colonizers, the [Colombian] colonials in the beginning of the century, the Marijuana bonanza of the 80s, the coca planting of the drug cartels and the armed conflict among guerillas and paramilitaries the Kogi are facing their biggest fear now, the destruction of “Heart of the World” due climatic changes.

- Alexander Rieser

[caribbeanart]

A very thorough overview for understanding how concepts of race and identity differ in Latin America and the Caribbean and within the region. Can be especially hard to read if you're black (but should also be if you're any other race too honestly??).

Personally in my own experience, with respect to anti-black racism I have noticed: In the Caribbean there tends to be a lot of internalized racism and colorism. (I literally went to the DR last year and was surprised to see that the majority of people there are actually black—something I knew people here wouldn't believe if I told them.)

(Growing up with a mixed Jamaican family, a lot of my family members would glorify having lighter "red" skin and straighter "good" or "Indian" hair. Additionally, skin bleaching is very common in Jamaica and even men do it, calling it "fashion.")

With respect to my experience with Latin Americans in the States: I've noticed a blatant apathy towards black pain/suffering that knowing another language has made particularly all the more painful (I think racism from other people of color is a special kind of racism)

And a particular obsession in the form of fixating, categorizing, labeling, defining, and trying to "make sense of" me especially as a black person whose fluent in Spanish, with a level of detail that can only be described as disturbing (read: inhumane)

Topics I want to shed light on in this post not because I care about anyone's ego but because it's painful and disturbing and very much historical and intentional (see below) and the apathy needs to stop. The apathy is the racism, is the discrimination, is the trauma passed down and down through generations...

"Brazil carried out a particularly large whitening campaign. As Tanya Katerí Hernández states, 'The Brazilian branqueamento immigration project was so successful that in less than a century of subsidized European immigration, Brazil imported more free White laborers than Black slaves imported in three centuries of the slave trade' [...] At the same time, Afro-Brazilians were encouraged to return to Africa and Black immigration to Brazil was banned." "There has been ample research demonstrating that while on the surface, Latin American nations celebrate mixed-race heritage, in practice they actually maintain Eurocentric ideologies by denying the role of racial difference in access to political power, economic resources, and land ownership."

[sefaradweb]

"Nunca es antisionismo, ni antisemitismo. Estos son comentarios en las secciones de comentarios de Taika Waititi. Todo lo que hizo fue firmar una carta para que los rehenes fueran liberados. No ha dicho nada en apoyo a las acciones de Israel. Taika Waititi es un hombre judío."

"Como puedes ver en la primera imagen, le están diciendo que ya no puede hacer películas compartiendo experiencias Māori porque firmó una carta para que se liberaran rehenes. Se le está diciendo a un hombre Māori que no comparta experiencias Māori porque firmó una carta para que se liberaran rehenes y porque es judío. Esto es repugnante. Es asqueroso. Están tratando de borrar sus experiencias indígenas como Māori solo porque es judío. Todos los demás comentarios también son igualmente repulsivos".

It's never antizionism not antisemitism.

These are comments in Taika Waititi's comment sections. All he did was sign a letter for the hostages to be released. He has not said anything in support of Israel's actions.

Taika Waititi is a Jewish man.

As you can see from the first picture, he is being told that he can no longer make movies sharing Māori experiences because he signed a letter for hostages to he released. A Māori man is being told not to share Māori experiences because he signed a letter for hostages to be released and because he's Jewish.

This is sickening. It's disgusting. It's trying to erase his indigenous experiences as a Māori all because he's Jewish.

All the other comments are also equally gross.

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La dignidad indígena está plasmada en esta reforma, forjada con lágrimas y sangre: lideresa comunal

Foto: Archivo/ACG Morelia, Michoacán La reforma constitucional en materia indígena, considerada un paso histórico para los pueblos originarios de Michoacán, fue calificada como un logro cimentado en el dolor y la resistencia de las comunidades. Claudia Pérez Toribio, lideresa del Frente de Autonomía de Consejos y Comunidades Indígenas, destacó que este avance no habría sido posible sin las…

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#Feminismos desde Abya Yala: Entrevista a Dra. Francesca Gargallo (1956-2022)

Feminismos desde Abya Yala. Ideas y proposiciones de las mujeres de 607 pueblos en nuestra América La escritora, novelista, historiadora de las ideas, incansable filósofa feminista nuestramericana, Francesca Gargallo, entrega a las sociedades de esta parte del mundo su nuevo libro, Feminismo desde Abya Yala. Ideas y proposiciones de las mujeres de 607 pueblos en nuestra América. La obra, una…