36 12 1190 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/c3b6148d401f6ba4ae3326ec29177819.pdf 7f5c2107c11d85d8983fb7dbd8f32b67 PDF Text Text CHILE R N Oppose NASA Base In June of 1985, U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger announced that NASA and the military government of Chile under General Agusto Pinochet were proceeding with plans to install an aeroespace station on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Its stated purpose is to serve as an emergency landing strip for space shuttles flying a polar (north to south) orbit. Rapa Nui is located in the South Pacific approximately 2,350 miles west of the Chilean coast and is part of Polynesia. It is triangular and covers 113 square miles. Its population is around 1,000. The Dutch first arrived on the island Easter Sunday of 1722. It was taken over by the Chilean Navy in September of 18 8 8. In 196 3, under the government of Jorge Alessandri, the United States installed a satellite tracking station on what is now the Mataveri Airport. On October 29, 1983, the Committee for the Defense of the Patrimony and Interests of Rapa Nui elected officers, and on November 15 the Council of Elders and Chiefs of Rapa Nui was formed once again. The council consists of one chief from each of the 36 clans. It had not functioned since 1888. In a letter written to Lieutenant de los Rios Echeverria, Pinochet-appointed governor of the 5th Region of Chile (in which Rapa Nui is included), the Council of Elders and Chiefs of Rapa Nui, by unanimous agreement, asked that in the future when the mayors and other officials on the island are selected their organizations be consulted, since they represent the people of Rapa Nui. In May of 1985, Chilean Minister of Defense Lieutenant Patricio Carvajal made a surprise visit to Rapa Nui and met with the governor and other local authorities. A few days later, the people of Rapa Nui heard over national telvision that NASA was planning to expand Mataveri Airport so that space shuttles (such as Columbia, Challanger and Discovery) could land there beginning in 1986. In a press conference after his visit, Carvajal stated that the Rapa Nui people (with whom he did not meet) were in total agreement with the project. In June of 1985, U.S. Ambassador James Theberge visited Rapa Nui. During a reception held for him, the officers of the Council of Elders and Chiefs of Rapa Nui informed Mr. Theberge that the council opposed the project. When Mr. Theberge returned to Santiago, he stated to the press that the people of Rapa Nui approved of NASA's plans. In a letter to Pope John Paul II dated May 28, 1985, the Council of Elders and Chiefs of Rapa Nui stated: "Our problem begins when Chilean authorities make an agreement with the United States. They make public projects and declarations without considering the people of Rapa Nui, who are the only and true owners of the entire island. "The Council of Elders and Chiefs of Rapa Nui has the duty of defending the patrimony, culture, interests, and above all else the dignity of the people of Rapa Nui. We do not accept that our rights be stepped on using our island as ·-v ' a strategic point for the scientific and military interests of a , , .: , ;' ~ ' r , ; M.· Bt.P$ powerful nation." Page 4 Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 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 Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 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 Rapa Nui People Oppose NASA Base 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 Summer 1986 Zotero Title Rapa Nui People Oppose NASA Base Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (4).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English Abstract Note In June of 1985, the United States Secretary of Defense announced, in conjunction with the regime of Augusto Pinochet that they would be putting an aerospace station on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island. The people of Rapa Nui took to writing correspondence to different leaders to voice their opposition to the installation of the NASA station. Pages 4 Augusto Pinochet Chile NASA Rapa Nui Summer 1986 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/819cb7cf759a66c472bd30f0bd20eafd.pdf 7848c82c9095abaf259cc264eff456a9 PDF Text Text BRAZIL Rondonia: Indian People Organize For Survival SAIIC has received reports of an apparent massacre of Nambiquara people in Brazil's frontier state of Rondonia. The conflict took place in November at the headwaters of the Rio Corumbiara, west of the city of Vilhena. Investigators have found Indian houses crushed and gardens plowed under by bulldozers. Antonio Jose Junqueira Vilela, a landowner, has reportedly ordered armed guards to keep all outsiders out of the area. The Nambiquara have suffered greatly from the expansion of cattle ranching, lumbering, and colonization projects in Rondonia. In the 1970's, Nambiquara were found wandering aimlessly along the newly-built BR-364 road after they had been expelled from their villages. They were hungry, sick, and had lost the will to live. In 1979, the flow of migrants and speculators into Rondonia became a flood with the paving of the highway, largely funded by the World Bank's Polonoroeste program. Periodic World Bank pressure on the Brazilian government to demarcate and protect Indian areas has been inadequate, and every Indian group in Rondonia confronts serious threats to their traditional lands. Last year alone, more than 200,000 settlers migrated to Rondonia. In September, 1985, the Union of Indian Nations (UNI) with the help of the Indian Missionary Council (CIMI) held the First Encounter of Indian People of Rondonia at Cacoal. Although many of the groups represented, including Surui, Cinta Larga, Pacaa Nova, Kaiabi, Gaviao, Pareci, Nambiquara, and Mequens, had only a few years of contact with non-Indian society, a consensus emerged that a unified effort is crucial in the fight for self-determination, land, and survival. Nambiquara youth (right). Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 3 � 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. 4 (Summer 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 Rondonia: Indian People Organize for Survival (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 Summer 1986 Zotero Title Rondonia: Indian People Organize for Survival (Brazil) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (3).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/3ac6b63cdcf97fac04aa9069ac682ad2.pdf 14e0532aa066f4396fdc7660c754c055 PDF Text Text Itabira, chief of the Surul, at the First Encounter of Indian People of Rondonia: "We need the rainforest to survive. When you cut a lot of the trees and the shade is gone, sickness follows. " The Surui have successfully resisted encroachment by cattle ranchers and gold miners. Damian (left), chief of the Sakirapbia (Black Monkey) group, confers with other leaders of the Rio Mequens Reserve (above) and confronts a tractor plowing a road through his village (below). Lumber companies illegally cut timber from the reserve for three years before Indians' demands that they be expelled from the reserve were heeded by the Brazilian government (see SAIIC Newsletter, Fall, 1985, p. 13). Page 2 Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 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 Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 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 Photographs of Resisting Amazonian Tribes 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 Summer 1986 Zotero Title Photographs of Resisting Amazonian Tribes Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (2).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English Abstract Note This page consists of black and white photographs of Amazonian Indians with captions. Pages 2 Damian Itabira Photographs Sakirapbia leader Summer 1986 Surui leader http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/090be1c4eaff4dee8d8799bbea884a13.pdf 8dac580485414512f08cc919f72ffc68 PDF Text Text sAHc NEWSLETTER So and Central American Indian Information Center (SAil C) Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7550, Berkeley, CA 94707 USA Office: 523 E. 14th St., Oakland, CA(415) 452-1235 Voi.21 No.4 Summer, 1986 Guatemalan Refugee: "We can't go back to militarized villages.'' See Page 11. � 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. 4 (Summer 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 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 Summer 1986 Zotero Title Cover Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 4 (1).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Issue 4 Volume 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Language English Pages 1 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/fb0b2bac5cfbec82155e2f6bd1bb4e75.pdf 06214aa490d818226bd8aa7eed5f0683 PDF Text Text sAHc NEWSLETTER So and Central American Indian Information Center (SAil C) Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7550, Berkeley, CA 94707 USA Office: 523 E. 14th St., Oakland, CA(415) 452-1235 Voi.21 No.4 Summer, 1986 Guatemalan Refugee: "We can't go back to militarized villages.'' See Page 11. �Itabira, chief of the Surul, at the First Encounter of Indian People of Rondonia: "We need the rainforest to survive. When you cut a lot of the trees and the shade is gone, sickness follows. " The Surui have successfully resisted encroachment by cattle ranchers and gold miners. Damian (left), chief of the Sakirapbia (Black Monkey) group, confers with other leaders of the Rio Mequens Reserve (above) and confronts a tractor plowing a road through his village (below). Lumber companies illegally cut timber from the reserve for three years before Indians' demands that they be expelled from the reserve were heeded by the Brazilian government (see SAIIC Newsletter, Fall, 1985, p. 13). Page 2 Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986 �BRAZIL Rondonia: Indian People Organize For Survival SAIIC has received reports of an apparent massacre of Nambiquara people in Brazil's frontier state of Rondonia. The conflict took place in November at the headwaters of the Rio Corumbiara, west of the city of Vilhena. Investigators have found Indian houses crushed and gardens plowed under by bulldozers. Antonio Jose Junqueira Vilela, a landowner, has reportedly ordered armed guards to keep all outsiders out of the area. The Nambiquara have suffered greatly from the expansion of cattle ranching, lumbering, and colonization projects in Rondonia. In the 1970's, Nambiquara were found wandering aimlessly along the newly-built BR-364 road after they had been expelled from their villages. They were hungry, sick, and had lost the will to live. In 1979, the flow of migrants and speculators into Rondonia became a flood with the paving of the highway, largely funded by the World Bank's Polonoroeste program. Periodic World Bank pressure on the Brazilian government to demarcate and protect Indian areas has been inadequate, and every Indian group in Rondonia confronts serious threats to their traditional lands. Last year alone, more than 200,000 settlers migrated to Rondonia. In September, 1985, the Union of Indian Nations (UNI) with the help of the Indian Missionary Council (CIMI) held the First Encounter of Indian People of Rondonia at Cacoal. Although many of the groups represented, including Surui, Cinta Larga, Pacaa Nova, Kaiabi, Gaviao, Pareci, Nambiquara, and Mequens, had only a few years of contact with non-Indian society, a consensus emerged that a unified effort is crucial in the fight for self-determination, land, and survival. Nambiquara youth (right). Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 3 �CHILE R N Oppose NASA Base In June of 1985, U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger announced that NASA and the military government of Chile under General Agusto Pinochet were proceeding with plans to install an aeroespace station on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Its stated purpose is to serve as an emergency landing strip for space shuttles flying a polar (north to south) orbit. Rapa Nui is located in the South Pacific approximately 2,350 miles west of the Chilean coast and is part of Polynesia. It is triangular and covers 113 square miles. Its population is around 1,000. The Dutch first arrived on the island Easter Sunday of 1722. It was taken over by the Chilean Navy in September of 18 8 8. In 196 3, under the government of Jorge Alessandri, the United States installed a satellite tracking station on what is now the Mataveri Airport. On October 29, 1983, the Committee for the Defense of the Patrimony and Interests of Rapa Nui elected officers, and on November 15 the Council of Elders and Chiefs of Rapa Nui was formed once again. The council consists of one chief from each of the 36 clans. It had not functioned since 1888. In a letter written to Lieutenant de los Rios Echeverria, Pinochet-appointed governor of the 5th Region of Chile (in which Rapa Nui is included), the Council of Elders and Chiefs of Rapa Nui, by unanimous agreement, asked that in the future when the mayors and other officials on the island are selected their organizations be consulted, since they represent the people of Rapa Nui. In May of 1985, Chilean Minister of Defense Lieutenant Patricio Carvajal made a surprise visit to Rapa Nui and met with the governor and other local authorities. A few days later, the people of Rapa Nui heard over national telvision that NASA was planning to expand Mataveri Airport so that space shuttles (such as Columbia, Challanger and Discovery) could land there beginning in 1986. In a press conference after his visit, Carvajal stated that the Rapa Nui people (with whom he did not meet) were in total agreement with the project. In June of 1985, U.S. Ambassador James Theberge visited Rapa Nui. During a reception held for him, the officers of the Council of Elders and Chiefs of Rapa Nui informed Mr. Theberge that the council opposed the project. When Mr. Theberge returned to Santiago, he stated to the press that the people of Rapa Nui approved of NASA's plans. In a letter to Pope John Paul II dated May 28, 1985, the Council of Elders and Chiefs of Rapa Nui stated: "Our problem begins when Chilean authorities make an agreement with the United States. They make public projects and declarations without considering the people of Rapa Nui, who are the only and true owners of the entire island. "The Council of Elders and Chiefs of Rapa Nui has the duty of defending the patrimony, culture, interests, and above all else the dignity of the people of Rapa Nui. We do not accept that our rights be stepped on using our island as ·-v ' a strategic point for the scientific and military interests of a , , .: , ;' ~ ' r , ; M.· Bt.P$ powerful nation." Page 4 Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. �apuche G ps Define Goals During the first week of June a significant gathering of the three major Mapuche organizations, Centros Culturales Mapuches, AD-Mapu, and Nehuen Mapu, resulted in a clear set of jointly defined goals: 1. All Mapuche demands for the coming democracy in Chile shall be presented through the Assembly of Civil Organizations, the nationwide coalition of non-governmental organizations working for a democratic Chile. 2. The formation of a tripartite commission to formulate a document to unite the Mapuche people into one organization that carries forward their struggles and goals. The groups also agreed to the following proposals to the Assembly of Civil Organizations: 1. The immediate repeal of Laws 2568 and 2750, which eliminate communal land holdings of Indian people, and a return to Law 17,729, which supported the gains in landholding made before the military coup of 1973. 2. The reinstatement of all lands taken from Indian communities under Law 2568. 3. The reestablishment of the Indian Institute under Indian control. 4. The establishment of a new constitution giving rights of self-determination to Mapuche people. Legislation to conserve Mapuche land and natural resources. Recognition by all sectors of Chilean society of traditional Mapuche forms of sotial organization and authority structure. Guarantee of the rights of pol1 itical participation in national affairs. Assault On Huilliche Described Carlos Orlando Lincomfm is a member of the Butahuillimapu, the central council which represents 137 organized communities of Huilliche people between Valdivia and Chiloe in southern Chile, and cacique (chief) of the province. In an article in Fortin Mapocho dated June 9, 1986, he states, "After the coup [in 1973] they destroyed the Indian communal laws. They divided our land, trying to do away with our organizations. They told us we would each be landowners. But individualism is alien to the Huilliches." Carlos says that Achala Island, which once belonged to Juan Bautista Inaicheo, another cacique and a relative of Carlos, now belongs to a hotel owner from Quell6n. "Nobody knows how he got a title of ownership." He adds, "The beaches that once were ours have been turned over to individuals. We (l.ren't allowed to gather shellfish or raise fish in the carrols." Carlos also talked about the company which is building roads in the area. They take down the Huilliches' fences and the animals roam away. Then the police come and give the Huilliches tickets for not keeping their animals fenced in. "One day I complained to the engineer. He told me he had expropriation orders. But later I found out that this wasn't true." For the Huilliches, the destruction of fences is a part of life. "I don't think that any future government will return our lands. The current policies are stacked against us. We had an opportunity with the Allende government, but then the coup came and nothing was left." Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 5 �PERU Visitor Descri Violence I Indian Communities Anatolio Liceta, Quechua Indian who works with the Peace and Justice Service-Peru (Servicio Paz y Justicia-Peru, SERPAJ), visited the San Francisco Bay Area in June to discuss the search for nonviolent social change in Peru. Anatolio comes from the community of Andina San Pedro de Pirca, province of Huaral, in the mountains north of Lima. He is a member of the Federation of Peasants of Cerro de Pasco (Federacion de Campesinos de Cerro de Pasco). His family, like most of his community, farms and raises stock. His experiences with nonviolent struggle include teaching adult literacy, organzing Indian farmer cooperatives, and working in the local tl!achers' union. He tells us: I come to exchange experiences of nonviolent struggle for peace, particularly at the community level. This struggle is important because at this time in Peru there is increasing indiscriminate violence. There is genocide, including the killing of old people, women, and children. Our Indian communities are bound together by our working the land communally. We believe that the land is the vital source that sustains all people. In my country in the mountains and on the coast there are 4,200 official Indian communities. They are organized in ay!lus and are now officially recognized as Indian communities of farmers. Our communities have at least 4,000 years of history, of life. Four hundred years of struggle and resistance to outside forces can't destroy our people. The fact is that these communities have developed a way of life based on self-sufficiency. The community is the uniting of men and women, but this union doesn't happen in a vacuum. Through work, this union, the community, takes on life. There is a common interest in the land itself that unites us. Together we carry our seeds to the field to plant. Everyone works together equally. The 200 members of the community (comuneros) take their seeds to plant the communal land. These 200 comuneros carry their tools so that the land will produce. Two hundred comuneros carry their food to eat out in the fields, so that they can invite one another to eat before and after planting. And then at the time of the harvesting, the yield is divided up equally among all those in the community. Seeds are saved for the next year. We don't do this work quietly. We do it with a kind of joyful energy. We always say, "If there is a good crop, we dance. Beautiful. We dance with a band. And if there is a poor crop, we also dance." Why? Because it is not like the person who, if a business is lost or money is lost, he is sad. There is a collective consciousness. In the community, if there is a poor crop, these troubles also unite the people, unite us in our work. These difficulties fortify the ties that bind us. This love of community is important, and it develops through working together. Page 6 Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. �That is the life in community, which is our strength. The root of the violence that is occurring now in Peru extends back to the notion of private property, distinct from our traditional community-based way of life. Between 1982 and 1985 there were 7,000 dead and many more than 3,000 missing and presumed dead. Since January, 1986, there are dozens more dead and disappeared. The blame for these deaths is placed on the guerrilla group Sendero Luminoso, but the blame to a much larger extent is also placed on the armed forces of Peru. Sendero Luminoso consists of people who are adventurers and provokers of violence, who kill along with the armed forces. They kill children, old people, and women. This is not a true revolutionary movement. For this reason it is detested by Indian communities. Our organization has a position in the face of this situation. We feel this is genocide that is occurring, and it becomes institutionalized by the armed forces. The consequence of this genocide doesn't mean simply the physical end or disappearance of a person. It also has massive repercussions for the entire extended family, leaving thousands and thousands of orphans and hungry children, and thousands and thousands of mothers and women who go from place to place, to the cemeteries and jails, looking for their loved ones they have lost. You see, the consequences of these kinds of things ate not erased from our lives right away. While there is no complete solution, through SERPAJ we do a number of things. We have helped organize the struggle of the relatives of the disappeared in the Ayacucho region. Their organization, the Association of Relatives of the Kidnapped and Missing of Ayacucho (Asociaci6n de Familiares de los Secuestrados y Detenidos-Desaparacidos de Ayacucho), is part of the human rights department of SERPAJ. We also have dining halls in Ayacucho and Lima for the thousands of children who have been orphaned. This is done by the volunteer work of Peruvians and by the assistance of people throughout the world who are helping us. For more information about the work of SERPAJ, contact the Resource Center for Nonviolence, P.O. Box 2324, Santa Cruz, CA 95063. Human Rights Activist Among Missing In Peru Among the many people missing as a result of political violence in Peru is Guadalupe Ccallocunto Olano, secretary of the Association of Relatives of the Kidnapped and Missing (Asociaci6n de los Familiares de los Secuestrados y Detenidos-Desaparacidos), who was arrested in Lima on May 24. A few days earlier she wrote, "The situation in Peru is getting worse. We live in a state of anxiety and insecurity. We are losing hope with this government, but the struggle of our people and of the relatives gives birth to another hope. They have threatened me many times and yet I cannot live with my back turned while my people bleed. I believe that it is better to die struggling, shouting the truth. This is what gives me hope that justice will come. But this we will only achieve with the help of all those persons who are aware of the inequality which reigns in our country." As we go to press, reports from Lima describe a massacre by police of over 300 prisoners accused of subversive acts. According to official reports, three police died. Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 7 �ECUADOR CONFENIAE Denounces Land Seizures By Oil Companies The Confederation of Indian Nations in the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) has accused Occidental, Esso-Hispanoil, and Diamond Oil Companies from the United States, British Petroleum from England, and the Conoco-Opic consortium from the United States and Taiwan of moving into Indian lands with the approval of the Ecuadorian government. They have now become the largest threat to Indian communities. Esso-Hispanoil, one of the largest oil companies in the world, obtained 100,000 hectares of land which belongs to the Huarani (Aucas). British Petroleum also Shuar Indian of Ecuador. obtained 200,000 hectares of Quichua land. According to CONFENIAE, both companies have been granted the use of land which is riow being planted in African palm (see SAIIC Newsletter, Spring 1986). They say, "We have,been able to prove that all these transnational corporations work cooperatively. The oil companies make the roads which are then used by those who exploit the African palm, cut down the forests and make this wood available to the large lumber companies." ''The istory Of My Organization'' The following comments are part of an essay which won first prize in 1985 in a nationwide competition among Indian organizations in Ecuador. They originally appeared in La Bocina, the publication of the Ecuadorian Federation for Public Progress (Federaci6n Ecuatoriana de Populorum Progressio). Our unity taught us what our goals must be. Our organization is not only for building community centers, bridges, schools, warehouses, water systems, and cooperatives, but also to develop a vision of our future. Clearly one of our goals is to develop the material infrastructure of our community, because we have to improve our lives. But as an organization we must be leery of developmentalism. We can't concern ourselves solely with material work, because then we run the risk of exploiting others in the same situation we were before. At first we didn't understand this well and thought that by organizing ourselves we could do to other cultures what they have done to us. We lacked analysis and reflection. We always have to look to the future to see where our organization is going, to keep an eye on our goals, to avoid falling into the trap of developmentalism. Developmentalism brings along with it egoism, individualism, and materialism. It Page 8 Vol.2, no. 4. Summer, 1986 �brings poverty to the majority and takes from us our feeling for life, which is the most important thing there is. Organizations are not made for us. They must be created. Begin with your home. At home we have trust. Trust is the seed. In Otavalo Community Mariana Chuquin, a Quichua Indian from Otavalo, Ecuador, who is visiting in San Francisco, recently made the following comments on education in her community: For those of us living in rural communities, it's very hard to educate our children. It is important to us that there is good bi-lingual education that strengthens our culture and communities. But many children are needed in the family's effort to survive economically, so they can't attend school. And the government gives very little support to education in rural communities. Most children don't go beyond the fourth grade. In my community, Mariano Acosta, it is the community itself and the school teacher who work together to make an education possible for our children. The community organizes mingas (community work groups) to construct roads, the school building, and other community buildings. Sometimes we have to use our imagination to make educational equipment and materials. Every week we organize in mingas to improve our community, to continue forward each day for the future of our children. lnd Voters Major Factor In Elections The greatly increased political organization of Indian communities was cited as a major factor in the overwhelming rejection June 1 of a constitutional referendum proposed by Ecuador's conservative government, according to Juan Aulestia, Oxfam America program representative for South America. Speaking at a meeting jointly sponsored by SAIIC and Oxfam America in Berkeley on June 19, Juan said that the growing realization among Indian communities that they can be a majority of the electorate was one of the most impressive developments he observed during a recent trip to Ecuador, which is his native country. Juan said that the conservative government of President Le6n Febres Cordero has moved to undermine Indian political organizations by renewing government support for the Summer Institute of Linguistics, an evangelical organization ordered to leave Ecuador by a previous government under pressure from Indian / \' \ ) /' groups. The government has also created "ghost" organizations which it claims ':\) /y/"i~ I'""' represent Indian interests as a means of spreading disunity in Indian communities. \ Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 9 �'' "We Indian people want the National Organization of Indians in Colombia (ONIC) to be like a great Maloca (the traditional communal house), a Maloca built with the hands and effort of everybody, where we can all fit, without leaving anyone out." In February ONIC held the Second National Indian Congress in Colombia. More than 900 people representing about 500,000 Indians got together to evaluate the activities of the organization and to discuss the present situation of Indian communities in relation to organization, land tenure, economic life, health, education, ownership and use of natural resources, study and use of Indian legislation, and relations with non-Indian popular movements. Conclusions of the meeting, according to Unidad Indigena, the newspaper published by ONIC, included: -"In relation to land, we marshaled our strength to pursue the enlargement of the reserves until we get the minimum land necessary to guarantee our existence. -"In relation to communications, we want the newspaper Unidad Indigena to become a voice for all the communities in the country by training people in the regional organizations to do journalistic work. -"In relation to legislation, we must study the laws that exist and compel the government to comply with the laws which protect us. -"In the field of education, we have formed a special committee within ONIC to ensure the enforcement of decree 1142, which assures the autonomy of Indian communities. -"In relation to economy, we call for Indian communities to take upon ourselves the responsibility of directing our own development projects so that resources are dedicated to programs of communal interests. -"In relation to health, we encourage the pursuit of ways to combine western medicine and traditional Indian medicine. -"In relation to other organizations, we propose that our interactions not be utilitarian and that we trade materials and share experiences more frequently in order to enrich our relationships." Indian youth joined the Congress, formed their own commission, and proposed that youth meetings in the regional organizations should also be held because "only in this way can we improve our education and recuperate our cultural values." Despite the difficult situation that Indian people face in Colombiaincluding invasion of their lands, the presence of non-Indian religious organizations, and the danger of being caught in confrontations between government military forces and guerrilla groups-the Second National Indian Congress reinforced the unity of Indian people and the goal "to live off our land, from our own hands, with our parents and our children, in peace which has always been present in our communities. Page 10 �GUATEMALA Government Costs Recent Repression Domingo Hernandez Ixcoy, a MayaQuiche Indian who now lives in Mexico, was one of the founders of the Peasant Unity Movement in Guatemala. During a visit to the San Francisco Bay Area in June he made the following comments in a meeting with SAIIC: When we refugees think about the possibility of returning to Guatemala in the future, we are aware that we may be used by the new civilian government of Vincicio Cererzo. We think that the government is looking for a way to bring the refugees back, especially those living in the border areas of Mexico. We've drawn up some points to be considered. First, we can't go back as long as our villages are militarized. We fled the military government and we're not going back simply because there is a civilian government. Second, the civilian patrols should not be continued. If the refugees living outside the country are to return, it must be to have freedom and not to be forced into civilian patrols. Third, upon returning to the country the people should not be subject to manipulation by religious sects. In recent years religious sects from the United States have played a central role in dividing our people by supporting the counterinsurgency program of the Guatemalan army. We want to be left alone. We want autonomy and to continue developing as a people independently. We don't want programs from the United States financing the division and destabilization of our unity. Fourth, we want our own organizations-peasant cooperatives, peasant leagues, craft and artisan groups-to be allowed in our country so we can really help ourselves as communities. If we return, we are against the idea of being reorganized as "model" or "developing" communities, called "strategic" villages. It's important to note that the repression has hurt us profoundly. In vast parts of the country a large number of mass political organizations existed before. We know that the counterinsurgency program killed 30,000 people in four years. Now there are more than 200,000 orphans in the country and almost 200 villages have been destroyed. In Guatemala great setbacks were suffered by the democratic, popular, and revolutionary movements in the country. But the counterinsurgency has not been able to completely set back the aspirations of the people. We will continue establishing a more just society, changing Guatemalan society, acquiring independence and self-determination for our country, which our people have come to under- Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 11 �stand is the only way to resolve our social and economic problems. Significant achievements in Guatemala were made through the organization which I represent and of which I was a founding member, the Peasant Unity Movement in Guatemala. We organized a large number of Indian farmers and managed to bring attention to significant events in Guatemala, such as the heroic takeover of the Spanish embassy, the southern coast uprising of 76,000 workers, and the insurrection of Indian people in the central highlands. We succeeded in erasing an image of ourselves as inferior imposed on us since colonial times. It was said that we didn't have ability, that we didn't have political expertise, and that we didn't form a part of the political spectrum. Now the Guatemalan Indians, in addition to knowing our abilities, are immersed in a revolutionary political process which is seeking social change in our country. Another important step is that we came to know the enemy better, principally the army, which protects the interests of rich people in our country. There has been self-evaluation since the time of the repression. Some people don't accept the fact that we've been set back considerably. For some the belief that the righteous spirit of the Guatemalan people will bring about social changes in our country is the departure point. Another position, one that I subscribe to, is the belief in the necessity of the formation of leaders who really grasp the global nature of the struggle, who will know not only political concepts but also military ones with which to push the struggle of our people forward in the future, who will understand the different forms of struggle which are important to develop in our country. It is something that we must deal with, that we have suffered a defeat, but that we haven't been totally exterminated. Domingo also spoke of the role of religion in resistance. We mix Christian and our traditional INVITA A !.A beliefs quite a bit. We participate in the Catholic JORNADA MEDICA MIUTAR church, but we also maintain our rituals as Indian people. We ask forgiveness to the mounASISTENCIAL tains. We burn copal for the mountains and also USPANTAN 10-11-12 DE AGOSTO 1919 for the moon. Maya-Quiches consider the moon to be our grandmother, the sun our father, and the earth our mother. We have ceremonies every year to thank them for the life they give us. We also believe that corn gives us life. We respect animals and plants, as they are part of the universe. Our parents taught us to live in harmony with nature. We look at the stars to know when to go to sleep. They guide the people. We rise at 4:00 a.m. and the first thing we do is look for the stars, to see where they are. I believe in all this, and I will continue to. I am also teaching it to my daughters. It is part of us, of our identity, our Indian culture. The Guatemalan army knows all this. They know our rituals and are trying to destroy our culture. They are burning our sacred mountains. Page 12 Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. �The photographs of Guatemala in this issue were taken by the late Pamela Israel, anthropologist and photographer, who worked extensively in Guatemala and with the Shuar in Ecuador. They were taken in 1979 in San Miguel Uspantdn, department of El Quiche, just prior to the devastating government military assault on communities in the area. An exhibit of Pamela's work will be held at the Lowie Museum in Berkeley in October, 1986. Pamela Israel notes, "In 1979 the army established a permanent post in Uspantdn in response to a growing guerrilla movement. As a way to improve their image in the area, the military sponsored a weekend health clinic and food depository. This poster (left) hung on walls in Uspantdn to announce services the military medical expedition would provide. The poster says that the military will give medical examinations, distribute medication, provide a barber, extract bad teeth, fumigate houses, and provide children's games. Although helicopters had been patrolling the mountainsides for at least three months, they had never landed in town. When the military clinic flew officers to this site, landing in the soccer field, many villagers left the market to have a look (below). After their weekend 'show' was over, the military never left." Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 13 �CARIBBEAN s eritage The Maroons are descendants of Arawak Indians and Africans who fought against the British in Jamaica in the late 1500's and early 1700's. Originally, Jamaica was colonized by the Spanish, who used the indigenous Arawak name for the island, Xaymaca, and enslaved the Arawak people. The Arawaks, known as a peaceful people, soon began to die of starvation, disease, and overwork, so the Spanish began to import slaves from the west coast of Africa, including Akan, Ibo, and Mandinka. In 1655 the British invaded the island, and the Arawaks, Africans, and Spanish took to the interior hills to fight them, each for different reasons, of course. Finally, the Spanish gave up and fled, but the Arawaks and Africans continued fighting and became known as the Maroons, from the Spanish word cimarrones, meaning domesticated cattle that would escape and become wild and unmanageable. There is no written history of the time from the Maroons' point of view, but from oral history it is known that the Arawaks and Africans helped each other. The Arawaks knew the land and taught the Africans what they knew. They intermarried and, under the leadership of Colonel M. L. Wright of the Accompong Maroons Nanny, a guerrilla woman and spiritual leader, playing the gumbe drum. the Maroons made a peace treaty with the British in 1739, winning the right to freedom, self-government, and land. Music is an integral part of the Maroon culture. One of the most honored instruments is the abeng, which is carved from the horn of a cow. The abeng, which only plays two notes, was used to communicate from hillside to hillside during the war, and it has a language that to this day is known only to the Maroons. It is never used for entertainment and is only blown freely at Christmas. One Maroon song is said to have been sung by Nanny after the Treaty of 1739 to urge the Maroons to unite and obey the treaty: What a wonderful people behave o yo Many bloods behave o people This Nanny has called for. Unfortunately, as with indigenous peoples in many countries around the world, the Maroons are being pushed to give up their culture and assimilate into Jamaican society. However, they have recently mobilized into a .Rage 14 Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986 . �new federation and opened a cultural center in the eastern part of the island. In a recent letter, Roy Nigerian Harris, leader of the Young Maroons, says, "We seek support to assist our music, our poetry, our sports, our religion, and also our drama. At the moment, we are lacking funds, but our heritage is very rich, and there is a lot owed to us. We are seeking sponsors, who would have a lot to gain. If cultural tours with lectures could be arranged, great." The Maroons can be contacted at The Maroons Cultural Centre, 12 Harbour Street, Port Antonio, Jamaica, Xaymaca, WI. In the United States, I can be reached c/o 360 62nd Street, Oakland, CA 94618. Music of the Maroons is available on Folkways Records, 43 W. 61st St., N.Y., N.Y. 10023. -Randi Kristensen Caribs From Three Groups Meet In Dominica Throughout the Caribbean there is an increasing awareness of indigenous concerns. According to the newspaper /ere, Carib representatives from Belize, St. Vincent and Dominica met in the spring in Dominica and called for more governmental recognition of Carib culture and identity. Like the Maroons in Jamaica, Caribs are descended from Indians and Africans who banded together in resistance to colonial European society. Caribs living in Dominica maintain a local government Carib Council headed by the Carib Chief, who is elected directly by the people, according to tradition. However, the representative from St. Vincent at the conference spoke of the lack of such structures on his island and expressed concern about the disappearance of the culture of St. Vincent's estimated 5,600 Caribs. "We would like when the gap is filled and we are together as one people," he said. Another conference is planned on St. Vincent next year with the theme "Caribbean Indigenous Revival." . aon AOTEAROA leg its In June a delegation of seven Maori from Aotearoa (also known as New Zealand) traveled to the United States. They were hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area by Women of All Red Nations and the International Indian Treaty Council. Hinewhare Harawira of the Wailangi Action Committee told SAIIC: We have about 3.5 million people in Aotearoa and 300,000 are Maori. We are fighting for our independence. We don't now have control of our lands. And one thing we find important as a first step in our independence is the taking back of our lands. The way we want to do it is not by Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page 15 �asking the government, "Is it okay to buy the land or is it okay to put our homes on the land?" When we see the need to go back to our land, our people are just moving back and sitting on it, living in tents or busses or makeshift homes, starting to build up the land, and starting to survive on the little land that we have. Whenever there is a land occupation, the people are always supportive of it. And that is encouraging, because the people support it from the right wing to the left wing, from the old to the young. We are starting to take control of our lives. We now speak Maori to one another and to other people, and if they can't understand it, too bad. We have a pre-school, and only Maori is spoken there. At the school there are older brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, a whole fanu base. That is the extended family. It is only through that, through the nurturing of the child to go out into the so-called rat race, so that they can cope with it, that we can survive. We have our own spirituality. We can say a story and it has three or four meanings to it. We believe all the meanings are the right ones. We know that the people of the Pacific need to unite together. We all achieve our independence together. Nobody is free until everybody is free. To the people of South America, we say, "Be strong in your stance." The Seventh eneration Fund SAIIC has been working with Victoria Bomberry and the Seventh Generation Fund to find ways to bring together Indian people of North, Central, and South America. Victoria, who is also editor of Native Self-Sufficiency, spoke with SAIIC recently about Indian sovereignty. SAIIC: Could you tell us about the Seventh Generation Fund? What is the basis for the work you do? Victoria: The Seventh Generation Fund was founded in 1977 by a group of activists who were interested in moving from merely rhetorical speech about sovereignty toward making sovereignty a reality. In order to do that, there were several things that needed to be articulated. People here had a notion of sovereignty and we started working on all the areas that make a people sovereign. To be sovereign, a nation needs to have an economic system. It needs to have a shared culture and language. It needs to have a land base, and it needs to have a people who are tied together by those common bonds. We began thinking about ways we could move these things to reality on reservations throughout North America. SAIIC: What kinds of projects have you been doing to make these kinds of changes? Victoria: We've worked in several different areas. We work with land and natural resources protection. We work in the area of economic development to find ways that are culturally benign and environmentally protective and to develop economies that are selfsustaining. For example, we have worked with several Navajo communities to develop an agricultural system based on traditional foods, and branching out to develop crops that can be sold in the market place for a little bit of cash income. Page 16 Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. �We've worked with the Western Shoshone people in their fight to maintain their ancestral homeland. They were also able to successfully defeat the MX missile that was proposed to go into Nevada. They used the argument that they held title to the land and it worked. We've worked with women's health projects. We've worked with women who were interested in reviewing traditional methods of healing and midwifery. They have been very successful in their communities in bringing women together to talk about their common concerns and to gain control over their reproductive rights. We've worked with over 85 projects in the past eight years and they are all grassroots, Indian-controlled, Indian-initiated projects in Canada and the United States. SAIIC: How have you now become involved with some hemispheric-wide concerns of Indian people? Victoria: We became involved as an organization in 1981 when the people in Guatemala asked us to speak out on their behalf. We ran a full-page ad in The New York Times denouncing the Guatemalan government for their brutalization of the Guatemalan people, in particular the Indian people who are the majority in that country. We keep finding, no matter where we go or who we talk to, that our concerns as Indian people are the same concerns. We're all concerned about our land, our spirituality, our families, our communities, and our rights to exist as separate, distinct people. Those are themes that come up over and over again. And they are the same issues that people involved in both hemispheres are working on right now. I think that we have a lot to learn from one another as Indian people, and I think that we can help one another. You know, it's all community. We are talking about community, and there are many people now working in both the United States and Canada to rebuild their communities and rebuild their nations. I think it is time to start reaching out to other Indian people in Central America and South America and to start rebuilding the ties that we've had over the centuries. For more information about the Seventh Generation Fund, write P.O. Box 10, Forestville, CA 94536. Art Dealers Raid Indian Heritage John Ross, a correspondent writing from Peru, reports that the heritage of Indian civilizations is vanishing from under the noses of the Peruvian and Mexican governments. The Peruvian government is concerned that some 50,000 objects created by Indian cultures before the European invasion are being stolen by graverobbers and art dealers each year. But descendants of the Incas argue that the government's policy of nationalizing such objects constitutes theft of Indian heritage by non-Indian governments. "The whites manipulate our culture. They make laws for their own class and state which, of course, is not truly national, since we, the majority of the population, are excluded from power," says Salvador Palomino, a Quechua-speaking descendant of the Incas and one Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Page P �of the founders of the South American Indian Council (CISA), with headquarters in Lima. "They take our mummies and insult the dead by displaying them as they do. They take our religion and use our creations to justify their ethnocentric theories which say that European cultures were the height of civilization. When I go to their museums, a profound sadness comes over me." Several years ago CISA successfully prevented exhibition in the United States of a stela from the ancient Chavin culture because "we feared it would be lost to us forever." Palomino and other Indian leaders propose a system of regional museums for Peru run by the nation's 64 Indian groups. "We are not against the whites, only their hegemony. We need to form a regional system so that we can have access to these relics," states Palomino. In Mexico, the theft of 140 priceless Indian objects from the National Museum of Anthropology last Christmas eve renewed demands for the return of valuable ritual objects to the Indian communities from which they were originally removed. Indian organizations such as the National Nahua Council, who are descendants of the Aztecs, have long demanded such repatriation. Santiago Gonzales, a Tarascan Indian, said, "We don't know who stole those pieces Christmas eve, but the Anthropology Museum steals from us all the time." Actress Shirley MacLaine has demonstrated recently another way that Indian heritage is stolen. Filming her life story in Peru, she spoke of revelations she received that the famous lines and figures drawn in the desert near Nasca are the work of extraterrestrials. Most other people familiar with the tremendous accomplishments of Indian cultures see no reason to attribute them to outside forces. A beautiful collector's edition silkscreen print of the mythical Morib-it fish is now available through SAIIC. Each print is numbered and signed by Ailton Krenak, an artist with the Nucleo de Cultura Indigena in Brazil and a coordinator of the ·union of Indian Nations (UNI). Printed in red and black on pastel paper, the silkscreens are $30 unframed or $65 framed. All proceeds will benefit UNI. Page 18 Vol. 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. �SAIIC promotes 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 Newsletter, one of SAIIC's projects, reflects indigenous perspectives of the Americas. Nilo Cayuqueo, SAIIC Coordinator, and Susan Lobo, Publications Editor SAIIC welcomes the energy and ideas of volunteers. All donations are tax deductible. If you can help, please write or call us at (415) 452-1235. Thanks. For production assistance we thank the American Friends Service Committee, Intertribal Friendship House, Wes Huss, Bobsey Draper, and the SAIIC Committee: Monti Aguirre, Peggy Lowry, Rayen Cayuqueo, Anna Lugo Stephenson, Maria Massolo, James Muneta, Glenn Switkes, and Jo Tucker. Pete Hammer typeset and co-edited this issue. Special thanks for work on this issue to Antonia Luisa, May Blos, Juan Bottasso, Miguel Cavallin, Ester Hernandez, Marie Helene Leroque, Cynthia Mahabir, and Sylvia Ramirez. NEWSLETTER To receive the SAIIC Newsletter for one year 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 of South America. Tiwanaku, Bolivia, published by SAIIC, 1984, $3. Journey to the South, K'uu yaa Tsa-wa, published by SAIIC, 1986, $1. RADIO SHOW The SAIIC radio program "South and Central American Indian Update" is heard the first Friday of each month at 8:00p.m. on KPFA FM 94.1 in northern California. One hour tapes can be purchased for $8 each. ORDER FORM Number Cost Newsletter subscription (See prices above) Working Commission Reports, $3 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 Centet; P.O. Box 7550, BerkeleY, CA 94707 USA Vol: 2, no. 4. Summer, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986. Page J9 �·c: "' 0 N "' E ~ " ~ .:< d Jose Kaiabi at the First Encounter of Indian People of Rondonia, Brazil. See Pages 2 and 3. South and Central American Indian Information Center P.O. Box 7550 Berkeley, CA 94 707 USA � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Thanks. -Susan Lobo Special thanks for work on this issue to Juan Bottasso, Aldous Cardarelli, Sandy Davis, Rick Droz, Jean Ann Jensen, Judith Stronach, and Karen Turtle. For production assistance we thank the Onaway Trust, American Friends Service Committee, Intertribal Friendship House, Wes Huss, Stephen McNeil, Bobsey Draper, and the SAIIC Committee: Jane Addison, Monti Aguirre, Rayen Cayuqueo, Peggy Lowry, Maria Massolo, James Muneta, Adam Rabinowitz, Anna Lugo Stephenson, Glenn Switkes, and Jo Tucker. Pete Hammer co-edited and typeset this issue. Susan Lobo is SAIIC Publications Editor. Nilo Cayuqueo is SAIIC Coordinator. NEWSLETTER To receive the SAIIC Newsletter for one year 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 of South America. Tiwanaku, Bolivia, published by SAIIC, 1984, $3. Journey to the South, K'uu yaa Tsa-wa, published by SAIIC, 1986, $1. RADIO SHOW The SAIIC radio program "South and Central American Indian Update" is heard the first Friday of each month at 8:00 p.m. on KPFA FM 94.1 in northern California. One hour tapes can be purchased for $8 each. ORDER FORM Number Cost Newsletter subscription (See prices above) Working Commission Reports, $3 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. 3, no. 1. Fall, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986. 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On Guatemala, it was resolved that the IITC condemn emphatically the repressive actions of the army and the government of Guatemala against our Indian Brothers and Sisters, especially in the case of the "Model Villages" and other manifestations of militarization of the population. On Nicaragua, it was resolved that the IITC support the Nicaraguan revolution and the self-determination of the Nicaraguan people, that the IITC support the peace dialogue and ongoing negotiations working toward autonomy for the indigenous peoples of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, and that the IITC condemn the U.S. war against Nicaragua, including aid to the contra forces, as this is detrimental to the efforts of the people of Nicaragua to achieve peaceful autonomy, unity, and peace, and causes great suffering among the Indian peoples of the Atlantic Coast, and all the peoples of Nicaragua. In addition, the commission on refugees and migrant workers resolved that the United States government should discontinue the abuse of refugees and migrant workers as well as the manipulation of the situation of said peoples for its own political and economic motives. For more information regarding the conference, contact the International Indian Treaty Council, 1259 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA 94103. SAIIC Newsletter Begins ird Year With this issue, the SAIIC Newsletter begins its third year of publication. Two years ago the first issue was a legal-sized sheet of paper photocopied on both sides. As contributions of time, money, and information have come from all corners of North, Central, and South America, both the content and our form of presentation have grown considerably. We want to thank the many people who have worked together to give this newsletter its unique character. We plan to continue publishing an always-improving newsletter which brings information on South and Central America from an Indian perspective and which promotes unity among all Indians of the Americas. With the next issue (Winter, 1987) we will be increasing the subscription rate to $8.00 per year. So subscribe now at the $6.00 rate. This increase is necessary to keep up with printing and mailing costs. But we also want to be sure that the Newsletter is available to all who want to read it. If you are imprisoned or otherwise do not have the money for a subscription, please let us know and we'll be sure you receive your copy. Otherwise, we need paid subscriptions from you and your friends! Please subscribe. It helps us to continue along this road. There are other ways you can help us, too. Please send material for publication or suggestions that will help improve the Newsletter. 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For production assistance we thank the Onaway Trust, American Friends Service Committee, Intertribal Friendship House, Wes Huss, Stephen McNeil, Bobsey Draper, and the SAIIC Committee: Jane Addison, Monti Aguirre, Rayen Cayuqueo, Peggy Lowry, Maria Massolo, James Muneta, Adam Rabinowitz, Anna Lugo Stephenson, Glenn Switkes, and Jo Tucker. Pete Hammer co-edited and typeset this issue. Susan Lobo is SAIIC Publications Editor. Nilo Cayuqueo is SAIIC Coordinator. NEWSLETTER To receive the SAIIC Newsletter for one year 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 of South America. Tiwanaku, Bolivia, published by SAIIC, 1984, $3. Journey to the South, K'uu yaa Tsa-wa, published by SAIIC, 1986, $1. RADIO SHOW The SAIIC radio program "South and Central American Indian Update" is heard the first Friday of each month at 8:00 p.m. on KPFA FM 94.1 in northern California. One hour tapes can be purchased for $8 each. ORDER FORM Number Cost Newsletter subscription (See prices above) Working Commission Reports, $3 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. 3, no. 1. Fall, 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. 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Title A name given to the resource SAICC Newsletter Begins Third Year 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 Fall 1986 Zotero Title SAICC Newsletter Begins Third Year Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 1 (18-19).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Issue 1 Volume 3 Language English Pages 18-19 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/955e94cb7666c0235bbc7dcf21a9a083.pdf b5b46b7e451820b4665608acc7a5e953 PDF Text Text Cou Acts America A number of issues related to Indians of Central America were discussed during the 11th Annual International Indian Treaty Council Conference, held at Big Mountain from June 2-8. On Guatemala, it was resolved that the IITC condemn emphatically the repressive actions of the army and the government of Guatemala against our Indian Brothers and Sisters, especially in the case of the "Model Villages" and other manifestations of militarization of the population. On Nicaragua, it was resolved that the IITC support the Nicaraguan revolution and the self-determination of the Nicaraguan people, that the IITC support the peace dialogue and ongoing negotiations working toward autonomy for the indigenous peoples of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, and that the IITC condemn the U.S. war against Nicaragua, including aid to the contra forces, as this is detrimental to the efforts of the people of Nicaragua to achieve peaceful autonomy, unity, and peace, and causes great suffering among the Indian peoples of the Atlantic Coast, and all the peoples of Nicaragua. In addition, the commission on refugees and migrant workers resolved that the United States government should discontinue the abuse of refugees and migrant workers as well as the manipulation of the situation of said peoples for its own political and economic motives. For more information regarding the conference, contact the International Indian Treaty Council, 1259 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA 94103. SAIIC Newsletter Begins ird Year With this issue, the SAIIC Newsletter begins its third year of publication. Two years ago the first issue was a legal-sized sheet of paper photocopied on both sides. As contributions of time, money, and information have come from all corners of North, Central, and South America, both the content and our form of presentation have grown considerably. We want to thank the many people who have worked together to give this newsletter its unique character. We plan to continue publishing an always-improving newsletter which brings information on South and Central America from an Indian perspective and which promotes unity among all Indians of the Americas. With the next issue (Winter, 1987) we will be increasing the subscription rate to $8.00 per year. So subscribe now at the $6.00 rate. This increase is necessary to keep up with printing and mailing costs. But we also want to be sure that the Newsletter is available to all who want to read it. If you are imprisoned or otherwise do not have the money for a subscription, please let us know and we'll be sure you receive your copy. Otherwise, we need paid subscriptions from you and your friends! Please subscribe. It helps us to continue along this road. There are other ways you can help us, too. Please send material for publication or suggestions that will help improve the Newsletter. We are also looking for a more creative name than "Newsletter" but so far haven't come up with the right one. All suggestions will be greatly appreciated. The Newsletter operates on a shoestring budget. With a press run which has reached 2,000, the shoestring is getting Page 18 Vol. 3, no. 1. Fall, 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 Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 1986) Zotero Language English Issue 1 Volume 3 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 Treaty Council Acts on Central America 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 Fall 1986 Zotero Title Treaty Council Acts on Central America Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 1 (18).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Issue 1 Volume 3 Language English Pages 18 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/6bcb83b8a0bdd2db7f980d3fb0437add.pdf 1c500ed2807607faf4fde551e6010ff9 PDF Text Text 1ans ng Brothers and Sisters, I have to write this poem because of the pain in my heart for the deaths of thousands upon thousands of Indian people in Guatemala in El Salvador in Honduras at the hands of murderers (don't we know them well) trained armed supported and directly aided by the United States government! And now, the Reagan/CIA/Pentagon is planning the invasion and destruction of Nicaragua using Somoza thugs rapists and torturers thrown out of the country to plunder once again! ore Deaths This poem requires an answer. What will you do? Can you write letters to senators and representatives? Can you get a resolution from your tribal council? Can you get your tribe to protect its young men from the draft? Can you demonstrate? These are Indians who are dying, Can't you hear their cries? Tens of thousands are refugees in Mexico. Can't you feel their sorrow? This poem requires an answer. What will you do? The Indian wars are not over. Reagan's "west" has just gone "south." -Jack D. Forbes (Powhatan-Renape and Delaware-Lenape) I guess it's a test for us too, a moment of truth. Do we care? Do we care about Indians "south of the border"? Each day hundreds of our brothers and sisters are murdered. Do we care? Each day the Pentagon moves closer to the invasion to the assault upon Nicaragua. Do we care? Vol. 3, no. 1. Fall, 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. 3, No. 1 (Fall 1986) Zotero Language English Issue 1 Volume 3 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 Indians are Dying and More Deaths are Planned (Poem) 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 Fall 1986 Zotero Title Indians are Dying and More Deaths are Planned (Poem) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 1 (17).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Issue 1 Volume 3 Language English Pages 17 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/928c92a8844c062907bf0a5bb3698830.pdf 3ccdf31633f26129d9af323eaa241ae8 PDF Text Text preparing the colors and dyes. It is the mixture of the vegetable dyes that makes the colors, and each family has their special mixture. About 1968 we started to use some modern designs taken from Escher and Mir6 in our weaving. People who wanted rugs showed us books and asked for special designs for a rug. There are others in my family and three more families who make these designs and other unique and personal designs. Almost everyone in Teotitian weaves. It supports us fairly well. We don't have to take other jobs. We have been using Navajo designs since 1978. We first saw these designs in a book. It was easy for us to make them because Navajo work is very straightforward, very geometric, like ours. So it was easy. At first we were not really interested in who the Navajo are. We didn't pay much attention to where the designs came from. But whatever design we use, we are conscious to do good quality weaving. We now do three Navajo designs. They sell very well. Now I see this as a kind of interchange .8 with the Navajo. Someday I would like to go to New _g. 0.. Mexico and live with them for a while. We should teach one another what we know best. Zacarfas working at his loom. Zacarias also spoke of topil. Topil is helping the community. There are five levels or cargos of the topil. One takes on more responsible topiles each time, depending on the conduct of each person. Maybe some day I will become president of the community. This is not for any salary. Everyone knows that we do the cargo in order to give our service to the people, the community. We were married for two years when they named me for a topil. The service is for one year. Then I rested and then they named me president of pre-school education, which I served for one year. Now I am serving again in the central committee of the church. There are two altars that I take care of. We work all day on the weekends. We leave flowers at the altar where we have our Gods, to worship our saints. We have responsibility for the whole community. Announcements The National Indian Social Workers Association held its annual convention October 14-17, 1986, in Buffalo, New York. Among the topics discussed was a commission of inquiry on the status of Guatemalan children (see SAIIC Newsletter, Spring, 1986, p. 7). NISWA, in cooperation with Defense for Children International, USA, proposes the establishment of a three-member panel to review the status of Indian children in Guatemala. For further information, contact Angela Russell, Box 333, Lodge Grass, MT 59050. An English-language edition of the CISA News Bulletin, published in Lima, Peru, by the South American Indian Council, is now available. The introductory issue includes articles on "Brazil: A Development Program of Death and Destruction," "Bolivia: Andean Community Memory, an Alternative Oral Archive," and "Chile: Mapuches in the City." A subscription for three issues costs $7.00, which should be sent to CISA, Apartado 2054, Lima 100 Peru. Page 16 VoL 3, no. 1. Fall, 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 Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 1986) Zotero Language English Issue 1 Volume 3 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 Fall 1986 Zotero Title Announcements Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 1 (16).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Issue 1 Volume 3 Language English Pages 16 http://saiic.nativeweb.org/ayn/files/original/d2f010dd4310075a9b736625439a8985.pdf cc560b8f5b04910df9b64ec83bf45f9b PDF Text Text church rights to establish a mission in the area and to function in a hazily defined role as "protector" of the Indians. The Yanesha have also been threatened by homesteaders and the Summer Institute of Linguistics, an evangelical organization. After intense effort by the Y anesha, they received title to their land in 1976. But the title was annulled in 1981 as a result of strong pressure from the Catholic church, according to the CIP A documentation. Since then tensions have increased in the area as homesteaders have attempted to invade Yanesha land. In 1982, the Comunidad Nativa Tsachopen filed a court document called an acci6n de amparo which should provide immediate judicial protection against violation of constitutional rights. But for four years technically illegal judicial tactics have blocked consideration of the petition and violations of Y anesha land rights continue. CIPA states that it "has protested this grave situation to the Peruvian government, demanding effective intervention of judicial, administrative, and church authorities to reinstate territorial rights to these Indian people of the Amazon who have now been displaced." Comunidad Native Tsachopen also makes an urgent call to national and international public opinion to lend support. They request that letters be sent to the following officials and that copies of the letters and any responses to the letters be sent to CIP A: Dr. Alan Garcia Perez, Presidente de la Republica, Palacio de Gobierno, Lima, Peru. Senor Ministro de Justicia, Ministerio de Justicia, Lima, Peru. Monseftor Luis Barbaren, Conferencia Episcopal de Acci6n Social, Rio de Janeiro 488, Jesus Maria, Lima 11, Peru. MEXICO Weavers iscuss Origins Designs Zacarias Ruiz Hernandez and Emilia Gonzales de Ruiz, Zapotec weavers from the town of Teotitlan de Valle, near Oaxaca, were in the San Francisco Bay Area for the month of July. They sold their weavings and gave demonstrations of weaving techniques. During a conversation with SAIIC, Zacarias made the following comments. I started to weave in 1958. My parents taught me. It is one of the jobs of parents to teach the children to weave. Already one of our sons and our daughter weave. The tradition comes to us through our ancestors. Some designs, such as "flor de Oaxaca" have been used for many, many years. Designs like this are from the area. Also people are now interested in using the designs from the ruins at Mitla and Monti Alban. People who buy weavings are interested in these designs. Other designs I use are my own. Now there is a rebirth of weaving using natural colors and dyes. People are asking their grandparents about the natural dyes that hadn't been used for a generation. Each family has its secrets on weaving and also Emilia carding wool. Vol. 3, no. 1. Fall, 1986. Page 15 �preparing the colors and dyes. It is the mixture of the vegetable dyes that makes the colors, and each family has their special mixture. About 1968 we started to use some modern designs taken from Escher and Mir6 in our weaving. People who wanted rugs showed us books and asked for special designs for a rug. There are others in my family and three more families who make these designs and other unique and personal designs. Almost everyone in Teotitian weaves. It supports us fairly well. We don't have to take other jobs. We have been using Navajo designs since 1978. We first saw these designs in a book. It was easy for us to make them because Navajo work is very straightforward, very geometric, like ours. So it was easy. At first we were not really interested in who the Navajo are. We didn't pay much attention to where the designs came from. But whatever design we use, we are conscious to do good quality weaving. We now do three Navajo designs. They sell very well. Now I see this as a kind of interchange .8 with the Navajo. Someday I would like to go to New _g. 0.. Mexico and live with them for a while. We should teach one another what we know best. Zacarfas working at his loom. Zacarias also spoke of topil. Topil is helping the community. There are five levels or cargos of the topil. One takes on more responsible topiles each time, depending on the conduct of each person. Maybe some day I will become president of the community. This is not for any salary. Everyone knows that we do the cargo in order to give our service to the people, the community. We were married for two years when they named me for a topil. The service is for one year. Then I rested and then they named me president of pre-school education, which I served for one year. Now I am serving again in the central committee of the church. There are two altars that I take care of. We work all day on the weekends. We leave flowers at the altar where we have our Gods, to worship our saints. We have responsibility for the whole community. Announcements The National Indian Social Workers Association held its annual convention October 14-17, 1986, in Buffalo, New York. Among the topics discussed was a commission of inquiry on the status of Guatemalan children (see SAIIC Newsletter, Spring, 1986, p. 7). NISWA, in cooperation with Defense for Children International, USA, proposes the establishment of a three-member panel to review the status of Indian children in Guatemala. For further information, contact Angela Russell, Box 333, Lodge Grass, MT 59050. An English-language edition of the CISA News Bulletin, published in Lima, Peru, by the South American Indian Council, is now available. The introductory issue includes articles on "Brazil: A Development Program of Death and Destruction," "Bolivia: Andean Community Memory, an Alternative Oral Archive," and "Chile: Mapuches in the City." A subscription for three issues costs $7.00, which should be sent to CISA, Apartado 2054, Lima 100 Peru. Page 16 VoL 3, no. 1. Fall, 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 Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 1986) Zotero Language English Issue 1 Volume 3 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 Zapotec Weavers Discuss Origins of Designs (Mexico) 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 Fall 1986 Zotero Title Zapotec Weavers Discuss Origins of Designs (Mexico) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 3, no. 1 (15-16).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Issue 1 Volume 3 Language English Pages 15-16