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Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul

+ INDIGENIST MISSIONARY COUNCIL - CIMI according indigenous informants and missionaries, of numerous diseases and subsequent arrival in the 1970s of Neo-Pentecostals. These coincided with the radicalization of the confinement process. All had in common the concern to "help the indians" to live, or more succinctly put, to survive a scenario in which their way of life and ancestral knowledge, having been constructed throughout history, was being made superfluous and "dispensable", and their religion made out of place. The exacerbation of confinement and consequent population increase within each indigenous land, particularly as of the 1970s, allied with the weakening of the presence of the indigenist agency inside of these reserves, in the swelling of the "new discourse" of indigenous autonomy, consequence of profound changes in legislation relative to the indigenous peoples, made explicit by the Constitution of 1988, make visible the unsustainability of these indigenous confinements. The increase in violence, as verified by CIMI reports, is certainly, an important indicator for evaluating the degree of tension and profound lack of wellbeing within the indigenous lands. This violence is one of the causes for the dislocations of many families to the edges of roadways and/or urban peripheries, perceived by the indigenous peoples as the only spaces in which it is still possible, although in precarious conditions, to move, or to develop the practice of oguata (to walk), in cases of conflict and/or tensions of diverse orders. In this sense, considering the historical roots of the increase in violence, especially internal violence between the Guarani and Kaiowá, in MS, which is certainly quite innocuous compared to the repression measures through imprisonment of an ever greater number of indigenous persons or the increased presence of the Conselho Tutelar and other external organs, totally preoccupied GOVERNO FEDERAL MINISTERIO DA JUSTIÇA FUNDAÇAO NACIONAL DO INDIO TERRA PROTEGIDA ACESSO INTERDITAGO A PESSION STRAN ARTIGO N 331 DA CONSTRUCÃO WEDERAL ARTIGO N 18,SILE 73 ARTIGO NET DO CODIGO MENCE DEIA YVY KATU EMPRE WPESSOA ESTRAN with combatting only the effects of the much larger structural problem. We know that indigenous youth are the greatest victims of this violence. It is the young people who are seen, today, without a place within the small overpopulated, extensions of land that the Kaiowa and Guarani manage to maintain at the moment, confronted by the insatiable fury of agribusiness and, without a place outside of the indigenous lands, in the small and medium sized cities located around them, in which these same youths are, on a daily basis, perceived as persona non grata, neither welcomed nor well regarded. In this light, certainly most relevant the contribution that we are able to provide to the Kaiowá and Guarani at this time, faced with so complex a problem, is to support their territorial claims and their processes of cultural realization, or in other words, to support their projects of autonomy. 27
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