Despite the Date, how many more of us had to die to remember?
We were already here!
Before the colonizers, before the stories of the salvation of souls and the legends of theElGolden, we were here. Before us millions, data estimate that in Brazil there were more than 05 million Indigenous people, probably this number was much higher, because a good portion of the isolated people was disregarded, peoples who saw their fellow human beings enslaved, killed and exploited to the limit, without any squeamishness, with the affirmation of a 'cure' through colonization.
Let's talk about history, yes, because they didn't listen to us, they didn't consult us, they don't understand us, the state prefers to honor those who destroy our lands, than to listen to us, they close the doors thinking that they could stop us, when the wood and iron from them was taken at the cost of indigenous blood, and this boils today.
NOéDay of theIndian,We define"Day of Resistance of Indigenous Peoples"And believe me, today we protect the water that you also drink, yes, the same water that pollutes with mercury, the most beautiful landscapes and forests, our peoples and communities that you worship and admire when you take pictures. This is a fact.
We live in cities, in the countryside and villages, in the most diverse states and countries, we use cell phones, computers, social networks, headdresses, we dance and sing typical songs, we consume our and their traditional drinks, we enjoy the shade of our malocas the calm of our gardens and backyards.
Listen, see, and hasten to learn our languages and customs. We will take back our lands, and do not come to us to ask how happy we are, are we not!
We have fought and resisted, in order to exist, it has been like this for more than 500 years, since the first white man we welcomed, and who today claims to be superior, for understanding an algorithm or for finding important what his portfolio has.
April 19 Indigenous Peoples' Day, it only reminds us, we are original, strong, insistent, brave, resistant and we were already here, and as much as they deny our stories and appropriate our legacy, Brazil is Indigenous Land, this land belongs to us, and we to it, this is where we will stay.
Indigenous Council of Roraima April 19, 2022.