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The Ayoreo FACTS
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The Ayoreo are one of around 18 different tribes living in Paraguay. The Ayoreo's home is in the Chaco, a huge region of dry scrub forest, rivers and swampland which encompasses the whole of the western half of Paraguay and extends into other countries.
How do they live? The Ayoreo live in the north-west of Paraguay and part of eastern Bolivia. There are different sub-groups of Ayoreo, including the Totobiegosode (whose name means 'people from the place of the wild pigs'). The Ayoreo are a nomadic, hunter-gatherer people, who once inhabited a vast area of scrub forest. Their first sustained contact with white people came in the 1940s and 1950s, when Mennonite farmers established colonies on their land. Subsequently missionaries attempted to contact and settle them. Although the Ayoreo resisted contact and largely rejected the missionaries, they did begin to come out of the forest; there is now only a small group of nomadic Totobiegosode living uncontacted in the forest. Most Ayoreo land is now owned by private landowners, who hire work-teams to clear the forest of valuable timber and then introduce cattle. Some is still owned by the Mennonites and another religious group, the US-based New Tribes Mission (NTM).
What problems do they face? During the 1970s and 1980s, the Ayoreo experienced intensive missionary activity, as the NTM pursued a policy of aggressive attempts to convert them. They would encourage groups of missionised Ayoreo to go into the forest to capture the uncontacted, nomadic Ayoreo, their traditional enemies, and bring them back to the NTM base. This resulted in violent clashes and several deaths as the Indians were exposed to diseases to which they had no immunity at the mission camp. The Ayoreo also suffer greatly from the theft of their land - although the Paraguayan constitution guarantees Indian land ownership, the Ayoreo's land has almost all been taken over by ranchers, forcing them out of their forest and making it very difficult for them to support themselves.
Source: http://www.survival-international.org/tribes.php?tribe_id=16
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Indians’ heartland at risk
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PARAGUAY: Indians’ heartland at risk 20 Apr 2007
The heartland of the last uncontacted Indians south of the Amazon basin is at imminent risk of destruction.
Powerful landowning companies are trying to have injunctions protecting the Indians' territory lifted.
The injunctions are currently the only protection for the last remaining forests of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians, although these have been flouted too, and long tracks have already been bulldozed into the forest.
Much of the Indians' territory is owned by a Paraguayan company called Jaguarete Pora SA, a merger of the previous landowning companies known as Luna Park International Ltda. and Itakyry SRL.
Under Paraguayan law all this area, as a small remaining part of the Ayoreo's forest homeland, should have been titled to the Indians years ago. But Jaguarete is instead trying to get permission to bulldoze much of the forest and introduce cattle, a process that has already devastated vast areas of the Ayoreo's territory.
Although most of the Ayoreo tribe, including some members of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode sub-group, have had contact with outsiders for many years, several groups are known to still live uncontacted in the forest.
The most recent group to emerge came out of the forest in 2004, pleading for water after cattle-farming colonists occupied all the permanent waterholes in their territory.
Source:http: //www.survival-international.org/news.php?id=2369
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New wave of dam building threatens Amazon Indians
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BRAZIL: New wave of dam building threatens Amazon Indians
As Brazil celebrates its national ‘Day of the Indian’ on 19 April, a new wave of dam building in the Brazilian Amazon is threatening the lives of remote Indian tribes.
Six tribes, including the isolated Enawene Nawe, face the prospect of up to 11 dams being built along the Juruena river which runs through their territory. At the same time an old plan to build five major dams along the Xingu river has been resurrected and will threaten the livelihoods of the 18 tribes of the region. The original plan was shelved in 1989 following massive international outcry.
The remote Enawene Nawe number just 420 and live largely by fishing. They are protesting against plans by soya companies led by the world’s largest soya producers, the Maggi family, to dam the Juruena river for hydroelectric power for the industry. The Enawene Nawe, unlike most Amazon tribes, eat no red meat. The dams would severely disrupt the breeding cycles of the fish they rely on, and destroy their livelihood and unique rituals associated with the fishing cycle.
The Enawene Nawe have said, ‘The dams will bring our death, as they will raise the uncontrollable anger of the spirits.’ They have written an open letter expressing their anger.
The Xingu dams project was abandoned in 1989 after the Kayapó tribe staged huge protests and captured the attention of the world’s media. The Kayapó are now seeking support for another campaign against the Xingu dams.
Survival’s director Stephen Corry said today, ‘Damming the Enawene Nawe’s river would spell disaster for this unique tribe. The dams must not go ahead. As for the Xingu river, it’s hard to believe that the Brazilian government is even contemplating this disgraced project again.’
For further information contact Miriam Ross on (+44) (0) 20 7687 8734 or email mr@survival-international.org
http://www.survival-international.org/news.php?id=2360
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Si sos un músico que toca en el subte porqué te deberíamos respetar??
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Ok. Este post surge de un poquito de bronca porque no se valora suficientemente el esfuerzo que uno invierte en profesiones artísticas. Para ser músico (hay virtuosos que no estudian, claro está, pero...) la mayoría del resto de los seres humanos tenemos que poner una gran cantidad de esfuerzo, recursos, tiempo y atención para hacer lo que amamos. Yo estudio musica (sisi soy musica aunque les pese a los que dicen que el canto lirico no lo es!!!) en un conservatorio hace como 7 años y sé lo que es que te basureen porque no sos nada si no tocas en el colón. Tengo muchos compañeros instrumetistas que por el momento (por diferentes razones: quedaron fuera en las audiciones, la falta de espacios para tocar en general, etc.) estan tocando en los subtes de Buenos Aires. Los ingoran, ya que la gente no tiene tiempo o lo que fuere. me reconforta saber que eso no pasa solo aca ("me reconforta" es un eufemismo por supuesto). Lo demuestra una noticia que mando un compañero del conservatorio y tiene que ver con la precariedad cultural y la diferencias sociales que existen en el mundo (sos pobre tocando en el subte ergo no te escucho, pero si tocás en el MET (Metropolitan opera de Nueva York) sos un virtuoso un genio excepcional...)
Cambio y fuera.
Cyn
Famoso violinista, inadvertido por todos
Joshua Bell tocó en forma magistral las piezas más exquisitas en el subte de Washington. Recaudó 32 dólares.
Agencia EFE
El famoso violinista estadounidense Joshua Bell demostró que, pese a tocar de forma magistral las piezas más exquisitas, si lo hace en el metro de la capital de Estados Unidos, los pasajeros pasan de largo ante el virtuosismo.
El experimento, planificado por el diario The Washington Post y publicado en su dominical de esta semana, consistía en observar la reacción de la gente ante la música tocada por Bell, uno de los mejores violinistas del mundo, que aceptó la propuesta de actuar de incógnito en el subterráneo estadounidense.
El 12 de enero pasado, a las 7.51 de la mañana, el artista y ex niño prodigio comenzó su recital de seis melodías de diversos compositores clásicos en la estación de L´Enfant Plaza, epicentro del Washington federal, entre decenas de personas cuyo único pensamiento era llegar a tiempo al trabajo.
La pregunta que lanzó el rotativo era la siguiente: ¿Sería capaz la belleza de llamar la atención en un contexto banal y en un momento inapropiado?
En ese momento, Bell, ataviado con unos vaqueros, una camiseta de manga larga y una gorra, comenzó a emitir magia desde su Stradivarius de 1713 -valorado en 3,5 millones de dólares- ante las 1.097 personas que pasaron a escasos metros de él durante su actuación.
En los 43 minutos que tocó, el violinista (Indiana, 1967) recaudó en su estuche 32 dólares y 17 céntimos -donados a la beneficencia- , una cifra muy lejana a los 100 dólares que los amantes de su música pagaron tres días antes por asientos decentes (no los mejores) en el Boston Symphony Hall, que registró un lleno completo.
En cambio, en L´Enfant Plaza, alejado de las campañas de promoción de su arte, fuera de los grandes escenarios y con la única compañía de su violín, a Bell solo lo reconoció una persona y muy pocas más se detuvieron siquiera unos momentos a escucharle.
Pasaron tres minutos y 63 personas hasta que alguien se cercioró de que, efectivamente, una melodía sonaba en el subterráneo.
Un hombre de mediana edad fue el primero en apartar la vista del suelo, aunque fuera por un segundo, para dirigirla hacia Bell.
Treinta segundos después llegó el primer dólar y a los seis minutos alguien decidió pararse por un momento para apoyarse en una de las paredes de la estación y disfrutar de la música.
En total, fueron siete los individuos que detuvieron su marcha para escucharlo, mientras 27 decidieron contribuir a la "causa".
Aunque solo lo reconoció una mujer que había estado en uno de sus conciertos, en general quienes se pararon a escucharle percibieron que el artista no era un pedigüeño cualquiera.
El redactor del Post Gene Weingarten, que ideó el experimento, dijo hoy durante una charla con los lectores del diario que retrasó la publicación del artículo debido al premio "Avery Fisher", el más importante de la música clásica, que recibirá el artista mañana.
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| April 13, 2007 | 10:11 AM |
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!
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I just wanna wish you all a happy easter if you celebrate it!!!
Felices Pascuas para todos!!
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Hometown Baghdad
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Hometown Baghdad:
I was so surprised when I checked out this link http://www.hometownbaghdad.com/ or http://www.tigblog.org/group/hometownbaghdad. I was pleaseantly surprised. It takes guts and it takes a lot of creativity to go out and document your every day life in a place where war is an everyday issue. It is really nice to share even hillarious moments with Adel, Saif and Ausama. If you heaven´t seen these documentaries, please do so!!
All I can say is that I look forward to more episodes!!
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