Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul
INDIGENIST MISSIONARY COUNCIL - CIMI teme
INTRODUCTION
DECREES OF EXTERMINATIONS
REALITY OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN BRAZIL²
A shout resounds throughout Brazil the cry of indigenous
peoples. Subjugated to the cruelest part of a new standard of power
brought by the old woods of European caravels were thousands
fell under the irons of persecution throughout history. The attempt
to annihilate them pervades even the mental construction of the
dominators that indigenous peoples are inferior beings, do not
produce and maintain primitive habits. This cry is the cry of the
communities considered as enemies of the State. As an unwritten
code, the Decree of extermination was put into practice.
The military period registered the most effective result of the
decimation of these secular people: they were, at that moment in
history, reduced to 170 thousand natives resisting espoliaions and
murders, the silent massacre of hundreds of victims at the hands of
resistance of people alive in their complex cultural dynamics, politicians and Government officials, military, loggers, developers,
social organizations rooted in tradition and Cosmology, search for
otherness and fight for territories of traditional occupation.
The 21ST century defoliates the new paths towards the interior
of the country, causing the neodevelopment machine sees as
obstacles the traditional communities and the environment they
preserved and which guarantees the livelihoods of these people.
The reterritorialization of capital seeks the fronteirs and the
brush of a deep and fruitful Brazilian indigenous people who live in
harmony with nature by following their own directions However,
the Decree of extermination is given, as it was before.
The violence imposed by intermittent colonization seen during
the military dictatorship, in the Decade of 1970, would bring
about the disappearance of indigenous peoples exactly at the
beginning of the 21st century. We would arrive to the new times
with the survivors of the massacre almost totally integrated to the
society imposed on them by a project antagonistic to that of the
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2Manifest against the decrees of extermination. Indigenous peoples: those who must live. Access the full article at:
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