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Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul

INDIGENIST MISSIONARY COUNCIL - CIMI tume of the indigenous peoples who were victims of dispossession and massacres, they are not differentiated in the narrative about the actions of the gunmen and police. In this perplexing situation in which the Guarani people survive and struggle, it even appears that this decision and injurious action by the group of gunmen and by the court is inevitable. Therefore, the indigenous peoples, victims, enter a state of suffering and despair no longer knowing who to appeal to guarantee their right to live as native and originary people of this Guarani territory. STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE It is important to highlight that the Kaiowá Guarani during these 500 years of invasion have developed very efficient strategies for confrontation and survival in the midst of the most intense of adversities and forms of violence. The essence of this process is centered, without a doubt, in their profound religiosity and in the centrality of their religious leaders (the Ñanderu and Ñandesy) in the organization of the communities and in the confrontations in the fight for life. One of the forums and forms of articulating the resistance, social processes and coexistence are the Aty and Aty Guasu. That is, the encontros/gatherings/celebrations of the communities, of wider or lesser embrace. The Aty Guasu gained a fundamental importance in the process of retaking of lands. It was at these moments that they discussed and defined the strategies of the struggle for rights, especially to land. 58
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