Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul
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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
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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.
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