History Activity: The Right to Be Indigenous

History activity, aimed at students in the fourth year of elementary school, with questions developed about the right to be indigenous.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

The right to be indigenous

I'm going to tell you now, I'm a wayampi boss. It's a wayampí chief who will speak, I will speak now. This is the land of our ancestors.
My ancestors occupied this forest a long time ago. […] We stayed here, in the place we transformed into our forest. We occupy the entire area. There are many relatives, they move around the area, looking for game, then return to the village. And everyone comes to the village to roast. Therefore, the boundaries of the area cannot be small. […]

So when the miners dig my land, oh! I don't like it.
[…] They pollute our water. When they foul our water, it's bad.
Where will there be water? We wayampi do not drink polluted water. We recognize her. The water is muddy, it's no good. […]
They exterminate hunting in our land. They kill everything. […]
Our land is valuable, it's expensive. Our land is very valuable! Only here are rivers and streams, there is forest. It's bad to finish off the forest. It is only here, on our land, that there are trees left. You deforested.
Why did you clean everything? […]
Are you listening to me? Do you understand me? You heard my words. I'm the one talking. A boss. I'm Indian. Indian. Stop! Stop stealing our land! I'm an Indian chief who speaks to you. I am different. I'm not the animal. I'm an Indian. I spoke of my land. Don't mess with our land. […]

Quoted in: Gilberto Azanha and Virgínia M. Valadao. Lords of these lands. Indigenous peoples in Brazil: from the colony to our days. São Paulo: Current, 1991. P.62-66

Questions

1) What kind of source for the study of history is this text based on?
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2) What is this testimony about?
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3) Why does the Waiwai chief ask you not to invade his people's land?
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4) To guarantee the rights of peoples, after many struggles, demands and discussions, important documents were prepared. What is the name of the statement consisting of 30 articles?
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5) What is the meaning of the phrase: “The right to be indigenous”? What can we do to guarantee this right?
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Per Camila Farias.

At answers are in the header link.

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