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HELP WANTED! This group seeks help to to protect its land, language and culture. Contact: <krenak31 [at] hotmail [dot] com>
Synopsis: Historically, literature and documentaries on the Krenak, an indigenous peoples from the Minas Gerais Valley in Brazil have been made by the non-indigenous, resulting in misconceptions and incorrect interpretations. This is something that has been bringing many problems to our community. The interest for us who are Krenak is to show what really is happening today and the process that has caused it in the last 200 years.The purpose of the documentary video we would like to make, “A History of the Krenak” is to tell the true story about how we were almost exterminated. It will be filmed in the Krenak Reservation in the municipality of Respendor, Minas Gerais. Shirley Adilson Silva Krenak who is the first indigenous person in the state of Minas Gerais to receive a university degree, will be the project coordinator.
The video will include the oral testimonies of elders (a practice, in common use among us for passing on information) who have survived the wars against the Krenak. How do the Krenak live today? What is the life of our people like after so many years of massacres (up to contemporary times)? And of our continued struggle for the return of our most sacred territory, the Sete Saloes which tourists desecrate by deliberately destroying carved ancestral drawings, vandalism, barbecues, mountain climbing and dirt bike racing inside the ceremonial area.
We hope that as a result of this documentary, the general public can have a better understanding of indigenous culture in Minas Gerais and in Brazil. Through this video we hope for more allies that are interested in the indigenous struggle.
We hope that as a consequence of this first documentary by an indigenous community that other videos can be made of other indigenous groups in Brazil who also have had strong genocidal contacts with the colonizer but who have survived.
Filmmaker: Shirley Krenak
Contact: <krenak31 [at] hotmail [dot] com>
Producer: Shirley Krenak
Year of Production: In development
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Country: Brazil
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Lisa, his contact email is just under the video: Contact: <krenak31 [at] hotmail [dot] com>
I hope you can help him, the situation of the Indians in Brazil is very critical, in the city of Arraial d'Ajuda, where i live things are seeming to go better and started to give them pieces of land. Land that was theirs to begin with ...
Holly
Curiosidade.. Os Krenak manteram sua língua original (ainda falam entre si) ou o português substituiu a língua?
vc era muito diferente lugar lindo sonho de consumo ....lindomesmo valew krenak estamos juntas
vc era muito diferente krenak
muito lindo este lugar
As a student of cultural anthropology it is my goal to help all indigenous peoples to save and preserve their cultural histories, their religious and spiritual rights and practices, their ancestral lands and properties, so forth and so forth. Please tell me how I can help, what is needed. As I said I am currently a student of cultural anthropology, I am working toward my degrees in anthropology, as I am only a first year student with great passion for the cause of saving indiginous peoples world-wide.
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