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What a disaster...

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Come on Cesar dance,

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yes more or less like that...

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There are several steps,

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first you have to move your hips, then do this, as if you had a weight here

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This is the girl’s part. But the boy?

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The boy has arrows

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So, with the bow and arrows...

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No, I don\'t dance now

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Dancing is an important part of culture, you can\'t dance just because they ask you to

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The traditional dance is something sacred to us

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Here I dance...
A dance course during the Film Festival here, in Madre de Dios

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Watch and learn...

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Were you there? Of course

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Here is my grandfather, look

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The three great sages

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As you can understand, the dance is a form of resistance, a way to reaffirm that we are there, still

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As a child I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time with the sages

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Every time we went hunting or camped on the banks of the river,

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in the evening, around the fire, I listened to my grandparents\' stories

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they told the epic story of my people

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Long, long ago, the forest began to burn

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The flames arrived everywhere

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The Harakbut people were very worried because their food had a bitter taste

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Strange animals also began to appear, all very mild

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It was really unusual. The Harakbut did not understand this bizarre behaviour of the animals

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Nor did they understand why food and water had become bitter. Everyone was worried

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Then came the enemy peoples of the Harakbut, like the Taka

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And other groups of the Harakbut family with whom, however, we were in conflict, like the Wachiperi, the Arasaeri and the Toyeri

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The sages said: \"We have gathered you all together because we will soon die. The fire is near”

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They waited together, in peace, increasingly frightened, because the flames were getting closer and closer

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The Harakbut did not understand what was happening. And they began to despair

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The region of Madre de Dios in the Peruvian Amazon is one of the richest regions in biodiversity on the planet

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Each year 6 thousand hectares of forest are destroyed

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for illegal extraction of gold a 3 billion dollar business

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Thanks to a complex international recycling system,

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Madre de Dios dirty gold is sold worldwide

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These are the areas where we intervene with the patrol

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Here is the reserve, and here the ten communities

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This whole area is subject to our intervention

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The surveillance is organized according to the reports of the community

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They do them with this tool

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The device works without internet connection, it has a built-in GPS

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Through a special App, the native communities can report illegal activities

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Here they have indicated a mining area near Puerto Luz

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There are no intermediaries

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It is the communities who report, and we forward their reports to the state judicial office

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I am proud to be a vigilant

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My people have always tried to preserve this ecosystem

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We have lived together for a long time, generation after generation, with the forest

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To continue to protect it and defend our territory,

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we Harakbut of Puerto Luz have formed a group of vigilantes

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We go out on patrol twice a month

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We have been threatened by timber traffickers and, above all, illegal miners

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To frighten me they told me:

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\"If you keep creating problems for us you will end up dying or on fire\"

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They want to exterminate us

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From here you get to two communities:

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the community of Puerto Luz and the one of San José de Karene

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Both belong to the Harakbut people. And both are threatened by the mines

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Without the authorization of the communities

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the State has given some mining concessions within this territory,

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causing a social and environmental conflict

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Let\'s go....

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As you can see the forest is gone

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To extract gold is used mercury,

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a highly polluting substance that poisons the great rivers,

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like the Madre de Dios River and the Colorado River

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Fishes are intoxicated by mercury. And the communities that fish them and feed on them end up being contaminated as well

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Here the mines begin already

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The water we see is not drinkable. It cannot even be used for agriculture

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It’s useless

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On this land, the trees will no longer grow

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As a result of the mining work, huge puddles have been formed

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Usually the shifts are of 24 hours, one day you work and one day you rest

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On their day off, workers go to these bars and wine cellars, an uneven life

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here many girls are sexual object of these workers

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many are minors, many arrive here deceived, with the promise of a well-paid job

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Delta1 is a population in constant movement

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The town was born in 2005, with the mining boom

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Before there were four or five houses

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When the first mine was created inhabitants from all parts of the country began to arrive,

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The arrival of the mines caused several problems: alcohol abuse,

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spread of new diseases, especially through the bars where girls \"work\"

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All this creates strong divisions in communities

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They go looking for community leaders and offer money to buy their consent

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What are you filming?

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There are many illegal miners. There are more and more of them coming. They are creating new extraction points

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for the communities of Puerto Luz and San José. The threat to them is serious

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And the Peruvian State is unable to protect them

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We Harakbut are in danger of disappearing

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Once we were 50 thousand

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Now there are few of us left because of the invasion of foreigners

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In the past when there were invasions, we declared war

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At the age of six, a child already knew how to defend his land, what his task was,

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growing up with this very strong idea of having to protect the territory

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My ancestors were speaking with the forest

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For this reason, our people are proud to have a still intact forest

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We fight for it. To bequeath it to those who will come after us

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Then came flying the Wehweh parrot that carried the seed of Anamei in its beak

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The parrot flew around people, especially girls

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Nobody understood why this bird had arrived

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The elders said that there was a way to save themselves

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They had to offer a virgin girl to the parrot, making her lie down with her legs open

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Many mothers were sure that their daughters were still virgins and, therefore,

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tried to offer them to be the chosen ones to save the Harakbut people

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All of them, however, had had sexual relations before marriage

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An old woman appeared,left alone with her young niece

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The old woman took the girl in her arms and offered her

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To everyone\'s surprise, Wehweh flew in and dropped the seed into her vagina

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The moment the young girl and the parrot joined together, the Anamei tree was born, incredibly

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It began to grow and grow again, as never before seen on earth

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It was a giant tree, where all living things could climb

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The fire was getting closer and closer. People started running to climb Anamei

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Many burned themselves in the boiling mud because they could not climb in time

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Animals, too, arrived from all sides and climbed Anamei

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Anamei\'s tree knocked down people who were thieves, gossip, envious, liars, witches, womaniers

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Seeing the forest burning and the thick smoke, all together they shouted to the tree: \"Anamei, get up!\"

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During one of the visits, I realized that the boys from the school in Puerto Luz paint very well

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Even without resources. No one has real colours

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Yet the drawings are beautiful

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Everything is connected

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We are gradually becoming more and more aware of this reality

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Everything is connected. Not only here. We are connected to the rest of humanity

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The defence of the earth and its populations concerns everyone

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The drawings of the Harakbut are the fruit of their dreams

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For there Harakbut there are night dreams and day dreams

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Their paintings express the Harakbut cosmovision

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In the Amazon there is a lot of death. But also a lot of life, like the one we see here

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In the region of Madre de Dios there are 38 native communities belonging to 7 different indigenous populations

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For us natives, the territory is fundamental. Without territory, there is no life for an indigenous person

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The territory gives us food

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An Italian, a Spaniard or an American goes to the market when he wants to eat fish or meat

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For us natives, the market is the forest

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Without the need for money, in the forest we can fish in rivers, hunt an animal, pick a fruit

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Or rice, yuca, banana, cultivate it in our territory

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For this reason, the territory is our market and our pharmacy, from here we take the medicines

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For this reason, it is important that industries do not destroy, invade and pollute the Amazon,

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because we live of the fruits of its territory

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Finally, scientists have understood the importance of indigenous peoples in the fight against climate change

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In the region of Madre de Dios we have the privilege of having several indigenous peoples uncontested

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6,7,8...These are indigenous people in voluntary isolation

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We see them for the first time. They are located in the area of Monte Salvado

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The indigenous people in voluntary isolation are people who, many years ago during the time of the rubber,

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have decided to take refuge in the most remote places of the forest and have no contact with this society

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Our responsibility as the Federation of indigenous nationalities of Mother of Dios

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is to allow these brothers to continue to live as they have chosen

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Between 2005 and 2010, timber smugglers began to penetrate this territory

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but also scholars, journalists and seven aggressive evangelicals, trying to teach the word of God and

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putting the uncontacted natives at risk. They are extremely vulnerable to diseases brought in from outside

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But we will continue to defend them. Because their life is as valuable as ours, as is everyone\'s

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In difficult, very difficult times,

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like the ones we are living now, many years ago,

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Then we were many

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But those who came to exterminate us were more

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Those who did not respect our culture and who were cold blooded killing us

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I am referring to rubber seekers

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It was the time of my grandparents, we Harakbut had not yet had contact with non-indigenous societies

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The invasion of the rubber prospectors was fatal for the natives:

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because it caused thousands and thousands of deaths among the natives

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It reminded me of the Dominican missionary who came to us at that tragic time, his name was José Álvarez

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It was a situation similar to the present one

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That missionary avoided the extermination of the Harakbut people

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They called him, who knew him, Apaktone, which means \"old and wise father\"

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Welcome Apaktone Francisco,

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the Harakbut people greet you

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We thought, wow, really in this era,

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an old man comes to us again, dressed in white

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and looks at our suffering. There are no longer the rubber seekers, but their violent spirit lives

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on in the illegal miners, in the traffickers of lumber

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We are living almost the same situation. And again, an Apaktone comes

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An old man comes - the metaphor is strong - and says: \"What are you doing to these people?

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Why are you killing them? Why are you taking their territory?\"

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If they manage to take away our land, we will disappear

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We want our children to have access to study, but without the school erasing our traditions, our language

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We do not want to forget our ancestral wisdom

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How many people listened to us on the day of the Pope\'s visit?

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We broadcasted it live throughout Latin America

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The visit was a breath of fresh air for the region

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And I think it was the most important moment of the Pope\'s trip to Peru

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Take your sandals off your feet, because the place you are standing on is holy ground

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At that time I was not very close to the Church

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Many people did not know the Pope and thought:\"Who will be?\"

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Others did not want to go because many evangelical sects told them that the Pope was the antichrist

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There was a lot of confusion
We were happy to go, but not only to pay homage to him

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We wanted to give him our support. We wanted to tell him: \"Count on us . You think like us, so we are brothers

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You defend the forest, so do we too\"

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The Amazon, besides being a biodiversity reserve, is also a cultural reserve

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which must be preserved in the face of new colonialisms

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The Pope arrived hurt by the experience in Chile

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Instead here, I think it was a celebration of the people...

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Your vision of the cosmos, your wisdom has much to teach us who do not belong to your culture

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Tears were falling, I really never told it, but as I saw it on the screen

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I thought: \"What an effort but it was worth it\"

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Listen to the elderly, please

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They have a wisdom that puts them in contact with the transcendent

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and makes them discover the essentials of life

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People felt like they were listened to, considered, recognized

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I believe that the Pope\'s heart has clearly grasped this

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His Latin sensibility helps him...even though he is Argentinean...

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The news arriving about the advance of some diseases are worrying

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The silence is scary because it kills

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There are very few world leaders and institutions genuinely committed to the defense of indigenous peoples,

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in the defense of the forest

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I read, even before the Pope\'s journey, the encyclical Laudato si

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It impressed me a lot. I thought: this Pope is an indigenous Pope

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He thinks like me

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Let’s not forget that \"the disappearance of a culture

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can be as serious as or more than the disappearance of an animal or plant species\"

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Thank you Pope Francis for convening the Synod of Bishops on Amazonia

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The Pope is promoting a change, a change of culture

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And he wants to promote it from the outskirts. So, from the Amazon

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We understand that his gaze has seen the greatest wealth of the Amazon,

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which are not minerals, wood or oil but its people, gathered here

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He tells us: \"Brothers get out of your centre

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This world we have created generates exclusion, generates destruction

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Look around you. Look at what is happening in the Mediterranean, what is happening to the indigenous peoples

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What is happening with climate change

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Don\'t we see that there are overabundant signs of how we are accelerating the end?

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This world we are falling apart, we are self-destructing”

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Everything was dark, they stayed in the dark for a long time, maybe years. The Harakbut wanted to see the daylight

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Once, they heard a cricket singing only when the sun rose

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People wondered: \"What is happening?\". It was true: the day was beginning to come

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The joy was immense. Little by little, the sky began to become clearer and clearer

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People looked down: there was nothing left, the fire, which came from different places like lava, had burned everything

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Everything was mud and desert

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When dawn began to break, people saw all kinds of animals on the leaves of Anamei that were of different colours

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Then they said to Anamei: \"Get down!\" because they thought the soil was hard

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Everyone came down to the ground thinking that the soil was firm, but it was not. It was only hard around Anamei

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People were happy to be back on earth. Excited they started running in all directions

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Many sank into the mud and died. Only two brothers were saved

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They say that, some time later, the two had a sexual relationship. That is why we are mortal

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If all the people who were in the Anamei tree had gone down to the dry land, we wouldn’t die

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Pope Francis opens the Synod for the pan-amazonic region

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for 3 weeks, 184 bishops and dozens of listeners

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were called \"to reflect together to find new paths for the church and for an integral ecology\"

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The Pope has understood that we are in a decisive moment

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In a moment of change and breaking

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In the 21st century we hear the alarm bell ringing loudly, warning us:

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\"The world is about to explode because of the actions of human beings”

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The white, western man, rich in science and reason,

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must surrender to the fact that his work puts life on earth at risk

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This represents a tremendous wound of his narcissism. It is not easy to accept it

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And to accept that the indigenous peoples have understood some things better than we have

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That their women have attentions we do not have

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We who have always believed that we are the best

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During the Synod there was much talk about the \"new evangelization\"

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To understand the natives, since they have much wisdom

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When our ancestors went into the forest, they conversed with nature

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They always did so: before hunting, before fishing, before taking something

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Everything ended with the arrival of the whites

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There are other ways of living, there are indigenous peoples,

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there are other cultures that are not mere minorities

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but they represent possible alternatives

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to rethink our path as humanity

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We must not consider them, as we often do, as \"poor people\", uncivilized,

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who must adapt and get on our train

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Instead, let us try to understand what we can learn from them

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To take another direction together as humanity

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So that humanity may be more human. And, therefore, more divine

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There is a strong call to take care of the common house. We have always done it

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Everything is connected. This is authentic wholeness

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We live in a common house. What will happen if we destroy the planet?

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Will we be safe when we appear in heaven? This is the apocalypse without redemption

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What will God tell us? \"Well, you were a good Christian, you went to Mass... but

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how did you treat my Creation?

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Did you allow its destruction? And do you want me now to save your spirit, your little spirit…\"

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That\'s a little too much isn’t it. God will tell us: \"No, no\"

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Even in our different cosmovisions, we have a single gaze, facing the same north

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You look in the perspective of Jesus, of God, you look like a shepherd, like the successor of Peter

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The north of your eyes is to do good and, therefore, to protect the Creation of the Lord

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We, according to our cosmovision, have the tree of Anamei, the tree of life and salvation

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This may be the beginning of a revolution promoted by Pope Francis

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or the beginning of the end of his modern leadership of the religious institution

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It was the norm in the Catholic Church for much of its existence, its doctrine...

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The ultra-conservatives are critical toward the Pope and have come to point out this conclave as a heresy

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Are these objects Christian or pagan? Are they traditional of indigenous culture or are they a new invention?

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Ci sono critiche all’idea dei viri probati che significa ordinare come sacerdoti delle persone sposate

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Dicono che non c’è accordo sul ruolo delle donne o sui preti sposati

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The question of viri probati was in paragraph 129, one of the 140 under discussion. But, each time, they only asked you about that one

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They tried to focus attention on a non-priority issue

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Nothing else seemed to be of interest. Only the viri probati and not the situation of injustice and crime that we live in the Amazon

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The famous word viri probati came out every day

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I had not come from so far away to know whether the priest can marry or not. This was the least

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Viri probati or no probati, the world is destroying itself, we are going to die probati or no probati

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What are you afraid of? I see here in Europe that everyone is afraid

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I have heard of everything, someone has even called it \"the Synod of witches\". What a lot of nonsense...

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There is a Church that is afraid to be infected by the suburbs

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The Amazon, in this case, or migrants arriving in the European Union

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There is a society and a Church that are afraid of being contaminated,

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when our wealth consists precisely in this contamination. It is there that the Spirit speaks to us

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I was very sorry to hear a mocking comment in here

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on that pious man who wore the offerings with feathers on his head

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I believe there is a strong resistance from conservatives to the extreme that,

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locked in their golden cage, they refuse to see reality

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I was disappointed,

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when I heard them say: \"Look, there are those with feathers on their heads

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They are profaning St. Peter\'s Basilica\"

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I don\'t know, I realized I was in the midst of Pharisees

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Tell me: what\'s the difference between wearing feathers on your head

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and the \"tricorn\" that some officers of our departments use?

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In the Synod we were 35 women, and I believe, as I have already said in other interviews,

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that our participation has been highly valued and emphasized

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Above all, however, I was immensely pleased with the presence at the Synod of various indigenous representatives

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In the Amazon, women play an important role in community service. The latter have a feminine face

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The service, that is, diakonía, is not a request, it is a reality

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There is a demand for recognition, because without recognition there is no dialogue

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The great revolution of the Pope was precisely that of recognition

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To recognize the natives, first of all, as humans. To recognize the territories as a new theological place,

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a place where God speaks to us about current history. And I have to listen and connect

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I believe that the Church, in this time, must learn from civil society,

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But in the rooms where decisions are made the Church still has a male face

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Change in the Church? There is still resistance but sooner or later they will understand

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I wanted to make one last speech at the Synod

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I booked and booked again

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because they a hundred people had booked and only three or five would have talked

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I started by saying I was very grateful to have another opportunity to express my thoughts to the Pope

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I thanked him for listening to me in Puerto Maldonado

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Yes, because the Synod began in Puerto Maldonado, Perù

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Then I told everyone, it was the penultimate intervention, then there would be the conclusion

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the synod would have ended and the voting would have begun

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I said: \"What would happen if we all die tomorrow?”

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All those who are now in the Synod Hall. What would happen?

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Well, we would go to Heaven and God would ask us:

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\"What have you done for the bloody Amazon?

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I was there, I called you and you did not listen to me\". What would you answer to God?

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They all remained silent

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I added: \"I feel that you are alone

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But it is not so. Pope Francis, You are not alone

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The indigenous peoples are at your side

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We will row together

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In reality, we are different and, at the same time, equal

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After all, we are all looking for a meaning in life

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We all feel that there is something elusive, that goes beyond physical reality, and that comes into relation with us

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The indigenous peoples know it, we know it, everyone knows it

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The forest is alive, its spirit is alive

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In the forest you can feel the breath of God\'s Spirit transcending it

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It is there and it is alive

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The trees speak,

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even the medicinal ones speak to you

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Trees are smart

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They talk to you about many things

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Big trees tell you what is good and what is bad

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The power of good acts. And also the force of evil

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People can come into contact with these forces

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Through plants, through prayer,

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through dreams, they try to relate to the transcendent

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We call it God. They identify him in many ways

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Some, like us, call him God, as I have seen

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Medicinal plants talk to me about everything that is happening

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Here the mines are killing the forest

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In a dream they ask me: \"What can we do?\"

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What can they do if everything is dead?

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What can they do now? Great flooding rains...

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They are not like us,

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they cannot claim justice in front of the government

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We have been saying this for a long time

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But the people who spoke were murdered

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And, with time, many have been afraid to die the same

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They kill not only human beings but also Mother Nature

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If the big mining companies that exploit the Amazon

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will stop now, we will still be in time

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But if they continue to close their eyes,

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there will be chaos

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Before the Anamei tree sank into the earth,

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it brought down the enormous ant isúla that carried a drop of water in its pincers

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There the ant deposited the drop of water and formed a large puddle, which would supply all human beings

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Everyone would have to go to that puddle to get water

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Shortly afterwards toku appeared, cooled in the water pool

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and as it flew away, the drops spread here and there. Thus, the lagoons

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were born the streams and all rivers such

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as the Eori (or Madre de Dios), the Isiriwe (or Rio Azul), Karene (Colorado)

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They say that there was a palm tree, called singpa. Under that tree there was a big egg

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And the egg, incredibly, turned into a child

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Men and women appeared

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Begnko came back again and called the baby and the other people Singperi appeared

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Thus, the first Harakbut clan was born

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In the same way, the various Harakbut clans that populated the communities were formed

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Before leaving again Begnko made his last effort to help the Harakbut

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Seeing that all the land was flat, he formed valleys, hills, mountains. He created high and low forest

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People used stone axes to grow crops and arrows to hunt

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We are descended from Anamei,

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that\'s why our ancestors lived in harmony with the forest

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If we destroy the forest and devastate the forest, slowly mankind will disappear

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Diseases will appear and a cosmic catastrophe will return

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We are saved because a tree saved us

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And I always asked: \"Grandpa, where is this tree?

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How can I see it?\"

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And he would answer me: \"Why do you always ask me that?\"

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\"Only because I would like to know where it has gone\", I explained

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He answered: \"The tree exists

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But it is not here. It is most likely on the other side of the ocean

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\"But it will come. When the end of the world will come,

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when climate change will accelerate even faster

01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:02.346
and the human species will be on the verge of extinction,

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He will not allow the Harakbut to disappear. He will come\"

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I asked him again: \"What does it mean grandpa?\"

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\"When the earth is on the verge of destruction,

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when humanity will find itself on the edge of the abyss,

01:02:49.808 --> 01:02:51.923
that tree will come

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A tree will save us. And it will be the tree of Anamei\"

01:03:07.231 --> 01:03:10.846
Yesica Patiachi Tayori is a bilingual teacher of the Harakbut ethnicity

01:03:10.846 --> 01:03:17.615
He published Relatos orales Harakbut, the first text that collects oral accounts of his community. The idea for the book came to her after Pope Francis\' speech in Puerto Maldonado

01:03:17.615 --> 01:03:21.538
In April 2020 he contracted Covid-19, now he is fine

01:03:21.885 --> 01:03:25.577
At the beginning of the pandemic, the two hospitals in the capital, Puerto Maldonado, had a total of 4 working respirators

01:03:25.577 --> 01:03:27.885
Madre de Dios was among the Peruvian regions most affected by Covid

01:03:28.846 --> 01:03:31.692
The mines continued to work even in the lockdown period

01:03:33.038 --> 01:03:36.000
The price of gold hit an all-time high with the pandemic: over $60 per gram

01:03:36.000 --> 01:03:39.500
Contact with mine workers spreads covid among indigenous peoples

01:03:40.538 --> 01:03:42.231
There is a risk of further genocide