Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul
INDIGENIST MISSIONARY COUNCIL - CIMI
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of all indigenous people, including those who still remain isolated
from Brazilian society.
2- INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT: Throughout these five hundred
years, indigenous people have found creative and diverse ways
to resist oppression and attempts of extermination. In the last
three decades, numerous forms of organization, articulations
and mobilizations have developed which today constitute the
Indigenous Movement. Cimi acts as a partner to the fight of
the indigenous movement by providing information, discussing
possibilities and courses of action and supporting their initiatives.
3- ALLIANCES: It is fundamental to consolidate alliances with
the view of building a new social order, based on solidarity, respect
for human dignity and ethnic and cultural diversity. To ensure the
conditions for indigenous people to gain their autonomy, Cimi aims,
through its action, to establish alliances with sectors of civil society,
Latin-American organizations, solidarity groups and organizations
and international cooperation.
4- TRAINING: Training is an essential tool servicing the current
efforts of indigenous peoples and indispensable for missionary
action, therefore it has been a Cimi priority since the organization's
origin. Cimi understands training as an integral process, constructed
collectively and based on social practice.
5- EDUCATION, HEALTH AND SELF-SUSTAINABILITY: Cimi's
action in these three dimensions is based on recognizing and
valuing the characteristic ways that each people conceive and
build their lives. It is imperative to know, profoundly comprehend
and radically respect their different visions of the world, thus
building with Indigenous Peoples, and from their own systems,
differentiated actions for health care, specific schools and
proposals for self-sustainability.
6- INTERCULTURAL AND INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOG: Cimi
directs its action towards the prospect of establishing a mutually
respectful dialog, based on equality among peoples and cultures.
Inter-religious dialog presupposes the profound respect for the
diverse concepts of sacredness, origin and meaning of human life
and the valorization of the multiple ways of ritualizing faith and
nourishing one's own beliefs. She is a driving force of their life
projects which are alternatives to the neo-liberal project.
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