1 12 25 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/9170720865f297b7d74988342e9a3406.pdf ce55abaf2e1a68352fd4294f5b006e1f PDF Text Text 0 .c 0 -' a:i .8 0 if Juana Aliaga and her child looking over their community in Lima, Peru. See Page 2. South and Central American Indian Information Center P.O. Box 7550 Berkeley, CA 94707 USA � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Back Cover Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title Back Cover Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (20).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 3 Language English Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/9db30b4d331b39fbbc679729e0d31f31.pdf 8de232beddde825bfff6c8bfc5cac36d PDF Text Text SAIIC works to promote exchange and unity among all Indians of the Americas by making information available and by making increased direct communication possible. SAIIC also makes South and Central American Indian issues and culture known to the general English-speaking public. The Newslette~; one of SAIIC's projects, reflects indigenous perspectives of the Americas. SAIIC welcomes the energy and ideas of volunteers. All donations are tax deductible. If you can help, please call us at (415) 452-1235 or write us. Thanks. Special thanks for production assistance to Po ran tim for graphics and to the American Friends Service Committee, Intertribal Friendship House, Peoples Translation Service, Leanna Wolf, Wes Buss, Bobsey Drape~; Judy Kussoy and the SAIIC Committee: Monti Aguirre, Pete Hammer (who co-edited this issue), Peggy Lowry, Rayen Cayuqueo, Anna Lugo Stephenson, Maria Massolo, James Muneta, Glenn Switkes, and Jo Tucker. Nilo Cayuqueo, SAIIC Coordinator Susan Lobo, Publications Editor NEWS LEITER To receive the SAIIC Newsletter for one yeaJ; and to remain on our mailing list, please send a donation of$6 for addresses in the United States, Mexico and Canada or $8 for addresses elsewhere. PUBLICATIONS Working Commission Reports: Second Conference of Indian Nations and Organizations ofSouth America. Tiwanaku, Bolivia, published by SAIIC, 1984, $3. Journey to the South, K'uu yaa Tsa-wa, published by SAIIC, 1986, $1. TAPES OF RADIO SHOW One hour tapes ofthe SAil C radio program "South and Central American Indian Update:' Each program includes news, interviews, traditional music, and more. $8 each. ORDER FORM Number Cost Newsletter subscription (See prices above) Working Commission Reports, $3 each Journey to the South, $1 each Tapes of radio program, $8 each Donations _ _ __ Total enclosed _ _ __ Name ____________________________ Address ____________________________ City, State, Zip _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Please make out all checks, which are tax deductible, to American Friends Service Committee/SAIIC, and mail to South and Central American Indian Information Cente~; P.O. Box 7550, Berkeley, CA 94707 USA. Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 19 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Subscription Information (Newsletter, Publications, and Radio Show Tapes) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title Subscription Information (Newsletter, Publications, and Radio Show Tapes) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (19).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 3 Language English Pages 19 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/cb76880c93a44a04a6fc15b8fb1ef9f6.pdf b3c668adae5121318cf7dad4b7c748f2 PDF Text Text AICom Links Indigenous People Via Computers During the past few years, Jose Barreiro and others have worked to establish an indigenous peoples' computer network service called AlCorn. AlCorn makes possible instant communication among its subscribers and gives access to the Indigenous Press Network, an international, indigenous-based information network. SAIIC recently spoke to Jose, who said, "Now for the first time, indigenous groups are reaching out over long distances. We now have more access to phones and typewriters, and computers are the next step. With computers we can transfer information from remote areas. It used to take six weeks to get information to us, for example from a city in South America. Now we can cut it down to six minutes. Indigenous people need to break from isolation in terms of human rights. Now an Indian massacre in South or Central America doesn't have to go unreported for six months." Jose also discussed the idea that indigenous people have a depth of knowledge and understanding of the natural world, and that through the use of computers this understanding can be shared among people for the protection and appropriate use of land and resources. "Often the first outside contact has been with those who wish to exploit resources. We need to go around that. We need to break the isolation between indigenous people and be able to communicate with one another. For example, the Aborigines are dealing with Alcoa and other multinationals, and the Amazonian Indians are dealing with the same threatening entity. Now the Aboriginal people and the Amazonian people have the potential to communicate directly with one another about any particular multinational and how to deal with it. Fourth World communication is what we are talking about. There is a close relationship among indigenous people with the natural world. We can go from that .and access computers. Let's skip tanks and rocketships." For more information about AlCorn, contact Jose Barreiro at P.O. Box 71, Highland, Maryland 20777. Announcements T~e Int~rnational Indian Treaty Council will hold its 11th Annual Conference at Big Mou_ntam, Anzona, from June 2 to 8, 1986. People are invited to attend and present issues relat1~g to land, water, religion and treaty violations. All documentation is condensed and submitted to United Nations forums as human rights violations. A Brother who is incarcerated would like to write to an "Indian Sister for friendship and exchange of thoughts concerning our Indian People." Contact Edmundo Sanchez, P.O. Box C-19618, Represa, CA 95671. Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 18 �SAIIC works to promote exchange and unity among all Indians of the Americas by making information available and by making increased direct communication possible. SAIIC also makes South and Central American Indian issues and culture known to the general English-speaking public. The Newslette~; one of SAIIC's projects, reflects indigenous perspectives of the Americas. SAIIC welcomes the energy and ideas of volunteers. All donations are tax deductible. If you can help, please call us at (415) 452-1235 or write us. Thanks. Special thanks for production assistance to Po ran tim for graphics and to the American Friends Service Committee, Intertribal Friendship House, Peoples Translation Service, Leanna Wolf, Wes Buss, Bobsey Drape~; Judy Kussoy and the SAIIC Committee: Monti Aguirre, Pete Hammer (who co-edited this issue), Peggy Lowry, Rayen Cayuqueo, Anna Lugo Stephenson, Maria Massolo, James Muneta, Glenn Switkes, and Jo Tucker. Nilo Cayuqueo, SAIIC Coordinator Susan Lobo, Publications Editor NEWS LEITER To receive the SAIIC Newsletter for one yeaJ; and to remain on our mailing list, please send a donation of$6 for addresses in the United States, Mexico and Canada or $8 for addresses elsewhere. PUBLICATIONS Working Commission Reports: Second Conference of Indian Nations and Organizations ofSouth America. Tiwanaku, Bolivia, published by SAIIC, 1984, $3. Journey to the South, K'uu yaa Tsa-wa, published by SAIIC, 1986, $1. TAPES OF RADIO SHOW One hour tapes ofthe SAil C radio program "South and Central American Indian Update:' Each program includes news, interviews, traditional music, and more. $8 each. ORDER FORM Number Cost Newsletter subscription (See prices above) Working Commission Reports, $3 each Journey to the South, $1 each Tapes of radio program, $8 each Donations _ _ __ Total enclosed _ _ __ Name ____________________________ Address ____________________________ City, State, Zip _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Please make out all checks, which are tax deductible, to American Friends Service Committee/SAIIC, and mail to South and Central American Indian Information Cente~; P.O. Box 7550, Berkeley, CA 94707 USA. Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 19 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Announcements Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title Announcements Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (18-19).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 3 Language English Pages 18-19 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/fba733d18d561769d1a3420945ed92e0.pdf ccebf1e3a7c3c8609bd17e52921f84dc PDF Text Text AICom Links Indigenous People Via Computers During the past few years, Jose Barreiro and others have worked to establish an indigenous peoples' computer network service called AlCorn. AlCorn makes possible instant communication among its subscribers and gives access to the Indigenous Press Network, an international, indigenous-based information network. SAIIC recently spoke to Jose, who said, "Now for the first time, indigenous groups are reaching out over long distances. We now have more access to phones and typewriters, and computers are the next step. With computers we can transfer information from remote areas. It used to take six weeks to get information to us, for example from a city in South America. Now we can cut it down to six minutes. Indigenous people need to break from isolation in terms of human rights. Now an Indian massacre in South or Central America doesn't have to go unreported for six months." Jose also discussed the idea that indigenous people have a depth of knowledge and understanding of the natural world, and that through the use of computers this understanding can be shared among people for the protection and appropriate use of land and resources. "Often the first outside contact has been with those who wish to exploit resources. We need to go around that. We need to break the isolation between indigenous people and be able to communicate with one another. For example, the Aborigines are dealing with Alcoa and other multinationals, and the Amazonian Indians are dealing with the same threatening entity. Now the Aboriginal people and the Amazonian people have the potential to communicate directly with one another about any particular multinational and how to deal with it. Fourth World communication is what we are talking about. There is a close relationship among indigenous people with the natural world. We can go from that .and access computers. Let's skip tanks and rocketships." For more information about AlCorn, contact Jose Barreiro at P.O. Box 71, Highland, Maryland 20777. Announcements T~e Int~rnational Indian Treaty Council will hold its 11th Annual Conference at Big Mou_ntam, Anzona, from June 2 to 8, 1986. People are invited to attend and present issues relat1~g to land, water, religion and treaty violations. All documentation is condensed and submitted to United Nations forums as human rights violations. A Brother who is incarcerated would like to write to an "Indian Sister for friendship and exchange of thoughts concerning our Indian People." Contact Edmundo Sanchez, P.O. Box C-19618, Represa, CA 95671. Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 18 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AICom Links Indigenous People Via Computers Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title AICom Links Indigenous People Via Computers Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (18).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 3 Language English Pages 18 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/da24e1106fb7f442ed320268ffc8c342.pdf b526ab42d765dcbe6ad22db3334ef51c PDF Text Text • to accommodate indigenous participation in the Organization of American States. • to apply international human rights instruments to national policies. • to develop a critique of the work of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. • to recognize and support the struggles of indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, including the Kollas, Chiriguano, and Wichi people of Argentina; the Mbya and Maskoy of Paraguay; the communities of eastern Bolivia; the Yanomami in Brazil and Venezuela; the Indian people of the Amazon region of Ecuador; the Quechua people of Ayacucho, Peru; the Indian people suffering from the militarization of the the Cauca, Choco, Cordoba, and Tolima regions of Colombia; the Miskitu, Sumo, and Rama people of Nicaragua; the Hopi and Navajo people suffering from forced relocation in the Joint Use Area of Arizona; and the Indian nations of British Columbia, Canada, to name only a few. If you would like to receive a copy of the complete statement by Indian people attending the Santa Fe conference, please send $3.00 to SAIIC to cover photocopying and mailing costs. Native Hawaiian Cites Ruin f Ocean SAIIC recently spoke with a visitor from Hawaii, Ho'oipo DeCambria. "I'd like to share one of the more current concerns of Pacific Island people at this time in 1986. That is the United States effort to build an incinerator on what is called Johnson Island, previously known as Kalama Island when it was under the reign of King Kamehameha. Johnson Island is an atoll in the Pacific that now stores toxic wastes. It is a very small atoll. The Environmental Protection Agency has granted a permit for the U.S. army to build an incinerator to burn these toxic chemicals. This EPA permit was granted without any Pacific Island consultation. No Pacific Island people knew about this hearing. The only people who gave testimony were a few of us in Hawaii. This incinerator is already under construction, and it is life-threatening, we believe, to Pacific Island way of life. "According to studies that have been done, we believe that emissions will fall into the sea and pollute the food chain further than it already has been by the bombings in the 50's of Emoita and Bikini Islands. We see that the United States sees us as being an expendable population of 90,000 people. We may live on small atolls and small islands, but the ocean is also our territory. The Western mindset does not see the ocean as part of the life cycle of indigenous Pacific Island people, so it chooses to use it and commodify it in different ways that really are going to destroy our future .... "And I think Hawaii is seen too many times as a part of the West. I think people need to look at Hawaii as a part of the Pacific Islands. That concept has to be deepened and reinforced over and over again. And I think even though we have Congressional delegates in the United States, I think even they have to see themselves as representatives of Pacific Island people and not representing people who belong to the West, because we are in the ocean, and we are thousands of miles from the United States, and we are indigenous." Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 17 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Native Hawaiian Cites Ruin of Ocean Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title Native Hawaiian Cites Ruin of Ocean Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (17).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 3 Language English Pages 17 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/d09fe81ceebb929e913b4eb048561d33.pdf e5cd23f3d83a1c69c0aff066c644183d PDF Text Text Santa Fe Congress Resolutions The resolutions adopted by representatives of indigenous people of the Americas at the Ninth Inter-American Indian Congress, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in November, 1985, have now been published. This meeting began with representatives of government agencies speaking of the Indian "problem" in their countries, but Indian people invited as observers quickly denounced that premise and met in a parallel "Open Forum" to discuss issues of mutual concern (see SAIIC Newsletter, Winter, 1986 ). Testimony on human rights violations was presented by Indian people, including evidence of systematic violations by governments of the laws and treaties which protect Indian people. National governments have attempted to suppress or destroy the independence of the Indian movement through manipulation, confusing the issues, hindering its organization, and otherwise blocking its genuine expression. Among the resolutions adopted by Indian leaders at the meeting were: e to request the formation of an Indian human rights commission, with participation of Indian organizations, as a permanent body of the Inter-American Indian Institute. • to promote a review of the concepts of genocide inherent in the upcoming celebration of "the Fifth Centennial of oppression of Indian peoples" in order to fully express the historical feeling of Indian people on this matter. • to demand that governments commit themselves to recognize the collective ownership by Indian peoples of their territories and the restitution of those lands that were taken away from Indian peoples, together with the natural resources of the soil and subsoil. • to press for a peaceful solution to the conflict in El Salvador, where more than 35,000 Indian people were massacred in 1932 and where murder and violence continue today. • to request the U.S. government to grant legal resident status to Maya-Kanjobales refugees from the war in Guatemala. CISA Conference Scheduled for Chile in November The Third Conference of Indian Nations and Organizations of South America will be held in Temuco, Chile, in November, 1986. It will be sponsored by the South American Indian Council (CISA). The announcement was made by the Centros Culturales Mapuches, who stated that Indian organizations from South, Central, and North America will be invited. Also, indigenous people from Australia, the Pacific, and Scandinavia and solidarity organizations will be welcomed as fraternal delegates. Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 16 �• to accommodate indigenous participation in the Organization of American States. • to apply international human rights instruments to national policies. • to develop a critique of the work of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. • to recognize and support the struggles of indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, including the Kollas, Chiriguano, and Wichi people of Argentina; the Mbya and Maskoy of Paraguay; the communities of eastern Bolivia; the Yanomami in Brazil and Venezuela; the Indian people of the Amazon region of Ecuador; the Quechua people of Ayacucho, Peru; the Indian people suffering from the militarization of the the Cauca, Choco, Cordoba, and Tolima regions of Colombia; the Miskitu, Sumo, and Rama people of Nicaragua; the Hopi and Navajo people suffering from forced relocation in the Joint Use Area of Arizona; and the Indian nations of British Columbia, Canada, to name only a few. If you would like to receive a copy of the complete statement by Indian people attending the Santa Fe conference, please send $3.00 to SAIIC to cover photocopying and mailing costs. Native Hawaiian Cites Ruin f Ocean SAIIC recently spoke with a visitor from Hawaii, Ho'oipo DeCambria. "I'd like to share one of the more current concerns of Pacific Island people at this time in 1986. That is the United States effort to build an incinerator on what is called Johnson Island, previously known as Kalama Island when it was under the reign of King Kamehameha. Johnson Island is an atoll in the Pacific that now stores toxic wastes. It is a very small atoll. The Environmental Protection Agency has granted a permit for the U.S. army to build an incinerator to burn these toxic chemicals. This EPA permit was granted without any Pacific Island consultation. No Pacific Island people knew about this hearing. The only people who gave testimony were a few of us in Hawaii. This incinerator is already under construction, and it is life-threatening, we believe, to Pacific Island way of life. "According to studies that have been done, we believe that emissions will fall into the sea and pollute the food chain further than it already has been by the bombings in the 50's of Emoita and Bikini Islands. We see that the United States sees us as being an expendable population of 90,000 people. We may live on small atolls and small islands, but the ocean is also our territory. The Western mindset does not see the ocean as part of the life cycle of indigenous Pacific Island people, so it chooses to use it and commodify it in different ways that really are going to destroy our future .... "And I think Hawaii is seen too many times as a part of the West. I think people need to look at Hawaii as a part of the Pacific Islands. That concept has to be deepened and reinforced over and over again. And I think even though we have Congressional delegates in the United States, I think even they have to see themselves as representatives of Pacific Island people and not representing people who belong to the West, because we are in the ocean, and we are thousands of miles from the United States, and we are indigenous." Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 17 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Santa Fe Congress Resolutions and Schedule for Third CISA Conference Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title Santa Fe Congress Resolutions and Schedule for Third CISA Conference Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (16-17).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 3 Language English Pages 16-17 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/1c6c9704fbc280dc3e6363c534e91364.pdf 43a692cf9317eb36f1ccc7db17545b09 PDF Text Text SAIIC to Coordinate Visit of Brazilian Indian Leader SAIIC is pleased to announce that its plans to help bring a coordinator of the Union of Indian Nations (UNI) to the United States are closer to becoming a reality. The trip might take place as early as May, when the UNI representative may testify in Congress regarding the impact of multinational development bank projects on indigenous people in Brazil. SAIIC hopes to assist UNI in meeting with North American Indian communities to strengthen communication among Indian organizations and individuals. We also hope to raise the awareness of the public in the United States regarding the critical situation confronting indigenous people in Brazil. We would like to invite organizations and concerned citizens to contact SAIIC for more details on the plans for this historic visit. Suggestions for specific events at which the UNI representative could speak and other ideas which would contribute to a successful visit would be appreciated. Update: Amazonia Film Project AMAZONIA: VOICES FROM THE RAINFOREST is a film-in-progress about the struggle for land, resources and survival, where the people of the Amazon suggest solutions for the social and environmental crisis of the rainforest. The film looks at indigenous land use as a model for life in the rainforest and as a focus of conflict on the expanding frontier. The producers of AMAZONIA, Monti Aguirre and Glenn Switkes,. have prepared a slideshow on this subject. For more information, contact them through the SAIIC office. Floyd Westerman spoke recently on the SAIIC radio program, "South and Central American Indian Update." "What we are beginning to find out as we work more closely with other groups of Indian nations from Central and South America is that we have a very common destiny as we find ourselves emerging out the the twentieth century. We have a common understanding in relation to Mother Earth, and we have a common understanding of how we want to live. I think we can show the world this way, if we come together at this time to make our understandings known." For more news reports, interviews, and music from Indian communities in South and Central America, listen in the first Friday of each month at 8:00p.m. on KPFA FM 94.1 in northern California. Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 15 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Update: Amazonia Film Project and South and "Central American Indian Update Radio Program" Information Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title Update: Amazonia Film Project and South and "Central American Indian Update Radio Program" Information Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (15).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 3 Language English Pages 15 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/715cf2102df4a2f0ec7638b3784220d8.pdf 43a692cf9317eb36f1ccc7db17545b09 PDF Text Text SAIIC to Coordinate Visit of Brazilian Indian Leader SAIIC is pleased to announce that its plans to help bring a coordinator of the Union of Indian Nations (UNI) to the United States are closer to becoming a reality. The trip might take place as early as May, when the UNI representative may testify in Congress regarding the impact of multinational development bank projects on indigenous people in Brazil. SAIIC hopes to assist UNI in meeting with North American Indian communities to strengthen communication among Indian organizations and individuals. We also hope to raise the awareness of the public in the United States regarding the critical situation confronting indigenous people in Brazil. We would like to invite organizations and concerned citizens to contact SAIIC for more details on the plans for this historic visit. Suggestions for specific events at which the UNI representative could speak and other ideas which would contribute to a successful visit would be appreciated. Update: Amazonia Film Project AMAZONIA: VOICES FROM THE RAINFOREST is a film-in-progress about the struggle for land, resources and survival, where the people of the Amazon suggest solutions for the social and environmental crisis of the rainforest. The film looks at indigenous land use as a model for life in the rainforest and as a focus of conflict on the expanding frontier. The producers of AMAZONIA, Monti Aguirre and Glenn Switkes,. have prepared a slideshow on this subject. For more information, contact them through the SAIIC office. Floyd Westerman spoke recently on the SAIIC radio program, "South and Central American Indian Update." "What we are beginning to find out as we work more closely with other groups of Indian nations from Central and South America is that we have a very common destiny as we find ourselves emerging out the the twentieth century. We have a common understanding in relation to Mother Earth, and we have a common understanding of how we want to live. I think we can show the world this way, if we come together at this time to make our understandings known." For more news reports, interviews, and music from Indian communities in South and Central America, listen in the first Friday of each month at 8:00p.m. on KPFA FM 94.1 in northern California. Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 15 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SAIIC to Coordinate Visit of Brazilian Indian Leader Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title SAIIC to Coordinate Visit of Brazilian Indian Leader Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (15).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 3 Language English Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 Pages 15 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/11bb020319bb6c40003c93be8eadd284.pdf d22ab572978f0e2ec3f58041fc4e4c90 PDF Text Text meeting in Santa Fe (see photo and story in SAIIC Newsletter, Winter, 1986) to find he was victim of a smear campaign by fundamentalist missionaries. Members of the New Tribes Mission branded Biraci a communist and ordered him to leave his own village. He refused. According to Biraci, the state police intervened and "want to take away my right to be an Indian." He feels that the goal of the missionaries is to discredit him as a representative of UNI in the eyes of his own people. The New Tribes Mission, whose headquarters is in Sanford, Florida, operates seven centers in the Acre region, with the stated purpose of converting Indians to Christianity. As widely reported in the media, in 1985 the New Tribes and its sister organization, the Mission Aviation Fellowship, were implicated in a plot to smuggle precious stones to the United States. According to Biraci, UNI in its five years of existence has taken "a strong commitment to the Indian cause." UNI has also opposed fundamentalist groups working in Indian communities. According to Porantim, the monthly newspaper which covers Indian issues, The New Tribes was temporarily expelled from Colombia and Venezuela for trafficking in precious stones. They have strong political connections in Brasilia, as evidenced by the fact that a former minister of justice was also involved in the smuggling incident. Changes in FUNAI-But for the Better? Following a threat by FUNAI President Apoena Meirelles to resign if structural changes in the agency responsible for the welfare of Brazilian Indians were not made, Minister of Interior Ronalda Costa Couto announced in February a major decentralization of the agency. One concrete change will be the dispersal of FUNAI's bureaucracy in Brasilia into six regional superintendencies, maintaining only a skeleton administrative staff of 50 in the capital. Another change still not finalized will be the transformation of the agency into a special secretariat directly under the President of Brazil or under the National Security Council. BRAZIL Neither change is likely to achieve significant gains in the level of Indian participation in decisions affecting their own survival. Decentralization of FUNAI may play into the hands of state and local politicians such as Governors Gilberta Mestrinho of Amazonas state, Angelo Angelim of Rondonia, and Getulio Cruz of Roraima, who have said they will not recognize new demarcations of Indian lands in their states and have attacked the "huge" areas being allotted to Indian reserves. Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAJIC © 1986 Page 14 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Changes in FUNAI - But for the Better? (Brazil) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title Changes in FUNAI - But for the Better? (Brazil) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (14).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 3 Language English Pages 14 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/43d7adc2f72714f030ada69f06cf2149.pdf 8bb1e79800cf65590b0ba1ad4ffb7e3f PDF Text Text BRAZIL Tukanos Confront Mining Interests in Upper Rio Negro For the past few months a tense situation has existed in the Upper Rio Negro region of the Amazon, with increasingly violent confrontations between Tukano Indians and gold prospectors on Indian land. Several deaths have resulted. In January, the Brazilian press reported that 60 Tukanos had been killed, but these reports are still unconfirmed. Mining companies have requested permission from the government to mine within the Indian area. Exploration efforts by mining companies on the boundaries of the area have pushed gold prospectors into Indian territory. The situation is even more critical because the Brazilian government is considering the demarcation of the region, which would guarantee stronger, legal protection for the lands of the Tukano, Baniwa, Maku, and at least 13 other groups. Fifteen thousand indigenous people live in the area, which covers 35,000 square miles. Brazil's National Department of Mineral Production (NDPM) has argued that the mineral-rich Traira Tukano Indian from Brazil Mountains be excluded from the area of demarcation, According to a leader from the community of Pari-Cachoeira, the Traira is sacred land: "On top of the mountains, the monster cobra, Traira, makes the connections between all of the houses, the malocas. The elders warn of the consequences of destroying that hill from which they get the force of their wisdom, the sacred stones." Documents obtained by SAIIC from Brazil suggest that mining companies are exerting greater pressure in Brasilia to obtain permission to mine on Indian lands. CONAGE, an association of Brazilian geologists, and Brazil's Ecumenical Center for Documentation and Information recently denounced the issuance of 120 permits for mining on Indian lands in the states of Para and Amapa, in the northeast Amazon. Indian leaders had previously denounced exploration permits issued to 19 companies in the Upper Rio Negro. These permits can not be put into force without disregarding or changing Brazil's Indian Statute, which specifically states that all resources on Indian land are for the exclusive benefit of Indian people. Despite this fact, variances have been extended to several companies, and the boundary of the Waimiri-Atoari reserve was redrawn several years ago by presidential decree to allow tin mining to proceed. New Tribes Mission levels Accusations Against Brazilian Indian leader Biraci Brasil, Yawanawa and representative of Brazil's Union of Indigenous Nations (UNI), returned to his village following last November's Inter-American Indian Congress Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 13 �meeting in Santa Fe (see photo and story in SAIIC Newsletter, Winter, 1986) to find he was victim of a smear campaign by fundamentalist missionaries. Members of the New Tribes Mission branded Biraci a communist and ordered him to leave his own village. He refused. According to Biraci, the state police intervened and "want to take away my right to be an Indian." He feels that the goal of the missionaries is to discredit him as a representative of UNI in the eyes of his own people. The New Tribes Mission, whose headquarters is in Sanford, Florida, operates seven centers in the Acre region, with the stated purpose of converting Indians to Christianity. As widely reported in the media, in 1985 the New Tribes and its sister organization, the Mission Aviation Fellowship, were implicated in a plot to smuggle precious stones to the United States. According to Biraci, UNI in its five years of existence has taken "a strong commitment to the Indian cause." UNI has also opposed fundamentalist groups working in Indian communities. According to Porantim, the monthly newspaper which covers Indian issues, The New Tribes was temporarily expelled from Colombia and Venezuela for trafficking in precious stones. They have strong political connections in Brasilia, as evidenced by the fact that a former minister of justice was also involved in the smuggling incident. Changes in FUNAI-But for the Better? Following a threat by FUNAI President Apoena Meirelles to resign if structural changes in the agency responsible for the welfare of Brazilian Indians were not made, Minister of Interior Ronalda Costa Couto announced in February a major decentralization of the agency. One concrete change will be the dispersal of FUNAI's bureaucracy in Brasilia into six regional superintendencies, maintaining only a skeleton administrative staff of 50 in the capital. Another change still not finalized will be the transformation of the agency into a special secretariat directly under the President of Brazil or under the National Security Council. BRAZIL Neither change is likely to achieve significant gains in the level of Indian participation in decisions affecting their own survival. Decentralization of FUNAI may play into the hands of state and local politicians such as Governors Gilberta Mestrinho of Amazonas state, Angelo Angelim of Rondonia, and Getulio Cruz of Roraima, who have said they will not recognize new demarcations of Indian lands in their states and have attacked the "huge" areas being allotted to Indian reserves. Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAJIC © 1986 Page 14 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New Tribes Mission Levels Accusations Against Brazilian Indian Leader Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title New Tribes Mission Levels Accusations Against Brazilian Indian Leader Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (13-14).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 3 Language English Pages 13-14 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/df743a1ecbcb4d46876f064802195c76.pdf 970317eaaac2688aad3eaef52e7315c8 PDF Text Text BRAZIL Tukanos Confront Mining Interests in Upper Rio Negro For the past few months a tense situation has existed in the Upper Rio Negro region of the Amazon, with increasingly violent confrontations between Tukano Indians and gold prospectors on Indian land. Several deaths have resulted. In January, the Brazilian press reported that 60 Tukanos had been killed, but these reports are still unconfirmed. Mining companies have requested permission from the government to mine within the Indian area. Exploration efforts by mining companies on the boundaries of the area have pushed gold prospectors into Indian territory. The situation is even more critical because the Brazilian government is considering the demarcation of the region, which would guarantee stronger, legal protection for the lands of the Tukano, Baniwa, Maku, and at least 13 other groups. Fifteen thousand indigenous people live in the area, which covers 35,000 square miles. Brazil's National Department of Mineral Production (NDPM) has argued that the mineral-rich Traira Tukano Indian from Brazil Mountains be excluded from the area of demarcation, According to a leader from the community of Pari-Cachoeira, the Traira is sacred land: "On top of the mountains, the monster cobra, Traira, makes the connections between all of the houses, the malocas. The elders warn of the consequences of destroying that hill from which they get the force of their wisdom, the sacred stones." Documents obtained by SAIIC from Brazil suggest that mining companies are exerting greater pressure in Brasilia to obtain permission to mine on Indian lands. CONAGE, an association of Brazilian geologists, and Brazil's Ecumenical Center for Documentation and Information recently denounced the issuance of 120 permits for mining on Indian lands in the states of Para and Amapa, in the northeast Amazon. Indian leaders had previously denounced exploration permits issued to 19 companies in the Upper Rio Negro. These permits can not be put into force without disregarding or changing Brazil's Indian Statute, which specifically states that all resources on Indian land are for the exclusive benefit of Indian people. Despite this fact, variances have been extended to several companies, and the boundary of the Waimiri-Atoari reserve was redrawn several years ago by presidential decree to allow tin mining to proceed. New Tribes Mission levels Accusations Against Brazilian Indian leader Biraci Brasil, Yawanawa and representative of Brazil's Union of Indigenous Nations (UNI), returned to his village following last November's Inter-American Indian Congress Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 13 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tukanos Confront Mining Interests in Upper Rio Negro (Brazil) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Zotero Title Tukanos Confront Mining Interests in Upper Rio Negro (Brazil) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (13).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 3 Language English Pages 13 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/4ba5c63033d465b412790b73f30cd15a.pdf aaeba7d2bc5e7cf53129ac2943558669 PDF Text Text Spaniards, and contemporary problems, like lack of land, flight to cities, lack of money, loss of culture. This theater group travels to different communities to present their plays, which is one reason they are written in Mapudugun. The second reason is that it has forced the actors to practice, and some even learn, their native language. It is a way for Mapuche people living in urban areas to maintain their culture. The plays were all very moving. Also in Temuco I was invited to visit the Centros Culturales, another Mapuche organization. Their main work at present is in the traditional communities, where 550,000 Mapuche live. Centros Culturales works in agriculture and animal health and sets up community stores. I also visited the Centro Cultural in Santiago, Folil-Che Aflaiai [Eternal Indigenous People]. Sofia Painiqueo, who toured the United States last spring and was sponsored in the Bay Area by SAIIC, is active in their organization. Like many urban Indian centers in the United States, Folil-Che Aflaiai works to maintain Mapuche traditions and community strength for those living in the city. They have classes in Mapudugun, music, weaving, pottery, and other traditional skills. They also have a community garden and publish a bilingual newsletter. The Mapuche are suffering greatly from the current economic situation. Their lands are being divided rapidly and they often don't have enough left to plant for their own consumption. I heard numerous accounts of Mapuche people cutting down trees and making charcoal, putting it in bags on ox carts and traveling for days to sell it in Temuco. There they made enough to buy flour and maybe sugar and traveled for days to return home again. The people who gather cochayuyo, a seaweed, dry it and also pack it on ox carts to sell it under similar conditions. In the communities people told me that they earned as much selling a whole cow as they were charged for a couple of pounds of beef. Mapuche lands, or the lands they have been pushed back to, are not good for agriculture. They are TA1W. MNUCil coastal, hilly and have poor soil. Mapuches have no ADMAN access to fertilizers, and they have so little land that ~ they do not let it rest. Cattle also wear it down tremendously. Wheat, the main crop, is small and sparse. Mapuche families end up buying flour to end the year. Jlil;ll Die., mm:o CICLO DE TEATRO -MAP.UCHE ~WJS. 2.0~ Mapuche Document On New Constitution AD-Mapu has announced that it will soon present a document stating indigenous concerns to be included in the future constitution of Chile. The document will explain the characteristics of the Mapuche and the treatment they expect from Chilean society as a whole. AD-Mapu added that the Mapuche people have a big challenge to face in the future democracy of Chile. According to Jose Santos Millao, president of AD-Mapu, "Chilean society can no longer ignore us or set aside our culture. This document will be written by the Mapuches, since we're the ones it will affect." This statement was made at the inauguration of summer volunteer jobs in southern Chile for over 1,000 university students. Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 12 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mapuche Document on New Constitution (Chile) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title Mapuche Document on New Constitution (Chile) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (12).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 3 Language English Pages 12 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2