The showy adornments of colorful feathers no longer disguise our reality…
However, the clothes we wear today do not cover our identity.
Don’t want to see us just as exotics or research guinea pigs;
We are not fossils, nor are we pariahs…We are human beings
Like you, with the same feelings!
Reflect on the history of our people, who have inhabited this continent for thousands of years, so affected by the saga of massacres, by the epidemic furies in the ambition of outsiders. We are exploited by reckless tourism, the violation of our rights and deceptive postcards…
The criminal chainsaws operate in the name of civilization…
The same name that for centuries has been decimating us, diluting our culture and calling us indolent savages.
Despite everything, we will continue to exist, side by side with the river, the forest and the animals, which have always been our friends and allies even in our own destiny…
Together we will invoke the forces of our God, Nhanderu, and the heroic deeds of our ancestors, to strengthen us in defeating the invaders.
Otherwise, we will resist until the end… until the last day of the last warrior, who, dying, will sing, in the song of death, the memory of our people, lost forever.
Luiz Felipe Tsiipré – 1982 – For the Guarani Indians
Genocide and Resistance
