https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex From an Insiders Perspective en-us 2017-04-26 01:48:29 UTC 2023-09-10 09:57:20 UTC hello@padlet.com ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168264804  ]]> 2017-04-26 01:56:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168264804 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168266196 2017-04-26 02:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168266196 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168267231  ]]> 2017-04-26 02:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168267231 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168268237 2017-04-26 02:30:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168268237 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168268786 2017-04-26 02:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168268786 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168271518 We live in thatched-roof huts without room divisions. The thatch for the roofs is made of palm leaves. Our huts are super roomy and large enough for my entire family to live in. We sleep in hammocks because they are cool and comfortable. We make and build our own houses using the materials found in the forest. ]]> 2017-04-26 03:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168271518 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168271559 Our main source of protein is fish. We also eat wild fruits and Brazilian nuts. We harvest vegetables and hunt animals such as monkeys and turtles. We use blowguns and darts dipped in curare. This is a poison that instantly paralyzes the animal. I like fishing with a bow and arrow at the river's edge because I can keep my eye on other game at the same time.

Recently we have began to buy rice, beans, cookies, sugar, and milk from village stores. My family and I, preferably, try to stick to the more traditional foods. ]]> 2017-04-26 03:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168271559 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168272407 2017-04-26 03:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168272407 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168272449 When the Portuguese conquerors first arrived in Brazil, there were about five million Amerindians. Today there are only about 200,000. We, the Kayapos, are fortunate to be a part of the select few whos culture has survived. We live along the Xingu River in the eastern part of the Amazon rain forest, in several scattered villages. Our lands consist of tropical rain forest and savanna.

]]> 2017-04-26 03:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168272449 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168285892 2017-04-26 06:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168285892 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168288698 2017-04-26 06:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168288698 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168421404 In the past years,  the weather has been changing. Why? It’s deforestation, it’s building dams, it’s large-scale industry and all the smoke and pollution that they put into the atmosphere. It is climate change and it’s very dangerous.]]> 2017-04-26 16:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168421404 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168422524 Our young people are on the internet. They use cell phones, they use Facebook. All the Kayapo villages have radios that they use to communicate with each other. So, we’ve adopted a lot of things from the white people’s world but we also continue to maintain our traditions, our language, our music, our culture.]]> 2017-04-26 16:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168422524 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168424674 2017-04-26 16:16:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168424674 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168430707 2017-04-26 16:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168430707 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168431309 2017-04-26 16:36:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168431309 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168431599 2017-04-26 16:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168431599 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168433725 2017-04-26 16:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168433725 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168434531 2017-04-26 16:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168434531 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168435307 2017-04-26 16:48:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168435307 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168439518 Even though we are commonly referred to as the Yanomami tribe, we do not identify ourselves as being a part of one entire group. Our tribe is composed of approximately 26,000-35,000 people, living in 200-300 villages within the Amazon rainforest. Our territory is located around the border of Brazil and Venezuela, between the Mavaca and Orinoco rivers. ]]> 2017-04-26 17:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168439518 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168445263 2017-04-26 17:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168445263 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168492561 My family lives in one of the 200-300 villages. Our village consists of my extended family which is anywhere from 50-400 people. We all live under a roof known as a shabono, which is divided into individual houses and spaces by support posts. We make Shabonos out of rainforest plants and tree materials. We usually have to rebuild every 4-6 years because of the damage caused by heavy rains, winds and insect infestation.]]> 2017-04-26 20:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168492561 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168494778 2017-04-26 20:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168494778 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168495531 2017-04-26 20:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168495531 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168497291 2017-04-26 20:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168497291 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168498546 2017-04-26 20:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168498546 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168498676 2017-04-26 20:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168498676 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168499426 2017-04-26 20:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168499426 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168500814 2017-04-26 20:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168500814 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168500873 2017-04-26 20:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168500873 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168501810 2017-04-26 21:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168501810 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168501882 2017-04-26 21:01:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168501882 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168502265 2017-04-26 21:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168502265 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168528086 To this day, we still do not have proper ownership rights over our land. To make matters worse, many figures within the Brazilian establishment would like to see our area reduced in size and opened up to mining, ranching and colonisation. The Brazilian army has built barracks in the Yanomami heartlands, which has increased tensions. Soldiers have prostituted our women, some of whom have been infected with sexually transmitted diseases.]]> 2017-04-27 01:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168528086 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168528412 Thousands of gold-miners are now working illegally on our land, transmitting deadly diseases like malaria and polluting the rivers and forest with mercury. Cattle ranchers are invading and deforesting the eastern fringe of our land. ]]> 2017-04-27 02:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168528412 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168531542 We use slash-and-burn horticulture, grow crops such as bananas, sugarcane, mangoes and papaya and hunt animals and fish. Our main crops are plantains and cassava. The crops that are grown in our gardens account for approximately 80% of our food source. I, along with the other men, go out to hunt for peccary, monkey and tapir amongst others. I have been hunting for as long as I can remember. We commonly use curare to hunt and fish. It is a poisonous plant that the Gods have made us resistant to. After a successful day of hunting, I give my meat to my family and friends who in return will thank me with their own catch. ]]> 2017-04-27 02:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168531542 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168533701 2017-04-27 02:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168533701 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168538603 When a member of our tribe dies, our whole village gathers to commemorate the event. We burn their body on a funeral pyre. During the cremation, we cry and sing sad songs, with our faces painted black. The burnt remains are then crumbled and put into a big pot, where they are kept until the second part of the funeral ceremony.The second part consists of cooking bananas, mashing them and mixing them with the ash and bone of the dead. We all gather up to eat the mush – this way, the soul of our beloved member is absorbed by the us again and freed for salvation.  ]]> 2017-04-27 03:45:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168538603 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168540974 2017-04-27 04:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168540974 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168541923 Our tribe is divided into two clans – âwaw and po'reza'õno. Marriage is only permitted between members of the opposite clan.  ]]> 2017-04-27 04:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168541923 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168542098 2017-04-27 04:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168542098 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168542193 2017-04-27 04:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168542193 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168542984 The log race is not really a race at all, it's a ceremony, an aesthetic event. We are not driven by notions of winning and losing. The logs are carried by two teams, representing the oppositions that we believe go to make up the universe. The running of the logs expresses the dynamic tension between opposing principles. The purpose of the ceremonies is to stress that these antithesis need not tear the world apart. Opposing can be controlled to complement each other and create equilibrium and harmony. ]]> 2017-04-27 04:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168542984 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168543660 Rites of passage clearly define the transitions each individual must pass through to become an adult, a full person with a new social role. Each initiate has a sponsor, an older relative. The new age-set dance in file around the village before racing.]]> 2017-04-27 04:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168543660 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168544179 2017-04-27 04:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168544179 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168544492 2017-04-27 04:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168544492 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168544580 Small rounded wooden sticks are inserted into our earlobes. These sticks are worn in progressively increasing size for the rest of our lives.  ]]> 2017-04-27 04:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168544580 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168544687 2017-04-27 04:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168544687 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168545054 Traditional village is built with the houses in a horseshoe shape, with the open end facing the river. A woman's domain is the home, whose opening always faces the center of the village. The man's domain is the meeting place in the center of the village, where all the important decisions are made in the men's daily counsel.]]> 2017-04-27 05:03:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168545054 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168545142 2017-04-27 05:05:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168545142 ofelia_negrete https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168545441 After living through enslavement, massacre and disease, we, the Xavante do not trust white or Portuguese men Anyone who is non-Xavante, "waradzu," is an enemy to my people. We were moved from our homeland, Mato Grosso, to a southern, malnourished area of Brazil. There, thousands of my people died due to disease, famine and warfare. Within the last decade, we have been relocated back to our original lands. ]]> 2017-04-27 05:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ofelia_negrete/38ce1bk9a3ex/wish/168545441