Tashka and Laura Yawanawá: The Amazon belongs to humanity -- let's protect it together
Tashka et Laura Yawanawá: L'Amazonie appartient à l'humanité -- préservons-la ensemble
Chief Tashka Yawanawá and Laura Yawanawá represent the critical perspective often missed in the discussions about the future of indigenous people in Brazil: that of the indigenous people themselves. Full bio
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to the spirit of the rainforest.
avec l'esprit de la forêt tropicale.
dans le territoire Yawanawá.
to the whole of humanity.
appartient à toute l'humanité.
many of you know
je pense que beaucoup d'entre vous
l'Amazonie brûle.
just the indigenous people,
pas seulement les indigènes,
if I burn everything,
ma communauté, si je brûle tout,
comes to my country.
arrivera dans mon pays.
to the global village.
nous appartenons tous au village mondial.
l'Amazonie appartient à l'humanité,
as the indigenous do in the world.
comme le font les indigènes.
de nous réveiller, de nous unir.
à ma femme.
with our hearts crying.
avec nos cœurs qui pleurent.
are being destroyed.
sont en train d'être détruites.
humanity two options.
to destroy and exterminate
détruire et exterminer
our cultures that go with it.
qui les accompagnent.
into an opportunity
en une occasion
and their cultures.
et leurs cultures.
we created a life plan,
un plan de vie,
of how we want to secure our territory.
pour sécuriser notre territoire.
200,000 hectares of rainforest.
200 000 hectares de forêt tropicale.
for us to secure our land,
pour sécuriser notre terre,
all civil society,
toute la société civile,
for many, many ... for centuries.
depuis des siècles.
to scream to the world
our territory, our nature.
notre territoire, notre nature.
enseigne à l'humanité
peoples directly,
that I would love to leave to you.
j’aimerais vous laisser.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tashka and Laura Yawanawá - Leaders of the YawanawáChief Tashka Yawanawá and Laura Yawanawá represent the critical perspective often missed in the discussions about the future of indigenous people in Brazil: that of the indigenous people themselves.
Why you should listen
For Tashka and Laura Yawanawá, leaders of the Yawanawá people living in the Acre region of Brazil, engagement with the world begins with his people’s right to self-determination and self-worth.
The son of a former leader of the Yawanawá, as a boy Tashka witnessed the near annihilation of his culture by the New Tribes Mission and by the pressure of economic interests. He studied in the United States and visited other indigenous communities. With other tribal leaders in the Amazon, he is working to restore dignity, identity and a sustainable economic future to indigenous populations, founded on their own values, culture and definition of prosperity.
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