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hahaha down me chip down here cow
paca baja kovacic agitan eha ag / nam
attacked and condoled to the iva and cinema ja I
I work with some people that to say
earth they say mother to say mother
they say tenderness and to say hello they say
another heart
today you are my other heart of
these people I learned that nobody comes
to the world by mistake in this world nobody
missing and nobody is left that we are always
those that we should be and that we are in
the right moment and in the right place
to fulfill our purposes
so today for you and for
we are the right moment and in the
Suitable place for some purposes
36 years ago
I was 17 years old I had finished my
baccalaureate and did not know what career
choosing the universities presented me
several proposals for example medicine
right dentistry psychology work
social and to me that seemed like a
List market had no idea what
career choose my prima lily that
he worked in the vichada he told me and for
what does not a work experience
I am a professor in the vichada with some
indigenous
Go is an experience and suddenly
meanwhile he thinks he’s going to study
because it caught my attention and I
calls a lot of attention because in
the baccalaureate I was taught that
the indigenous were the first
inhabitants of america that
they fed on a poisonous tuber and
they used poisoned arrows
to hunt or to make wars
between them and I had read a text
1,545 of Ginés de Sepúlveda that
he said that the Indians were so
inferior to the Spanish
as women to men as
children to adults or like monkeys to
humans and then also
I read the baccalaureate at the same time
a text by laureano gómez as early as 1928
he said that we Colombians
we are a mixture of Indian Spaniards and
blacks and he said that the real
identity of true progress what
we should look at what we inherit
of the Spaniards since what
we inherit from blacks and Indians
he said are stigmas of complete
inferiority
so I went to the vichada
The first thing I noticed is that the
settlers told the indigenous people the
irrational and they also sometimes
they told us you heard the rational
I started listening to learn their
tongue their culture and I started to discover
amazing things for example that the
Adjectives in this language behave
like verbs that I can not say red
yellow or white blue but I have
that conjugate the colors and I in
I can not conjugate the colors
that will have to say something like
green fling yellow but I can not find
how to say it
they told me is that the color does not
there are only color shades
For example, if I’m close, it’s green and
yes further blue therefore it is a
bluish green a blue green
then I realized that the way
how they perceive reality is totally
dynamic is not fixed and more surprised
that when I realized that in his
language I can not express future
indefinite or undefined past
for example I can not say I’ll sing
I do not know when, but one day I ‘ll tell
I can not say I can say tomorrow
he sang in the next summer singing but
it can not be undefined
then I thought that my daughter and how they do
the projects
if the word project is pregnant with
future
how do the projects and the school
Preparing it for 1 for the future
endurance resist obey that the future
we do not know what future but for
future
then I started to understand why the
children were flying they were flying out of the
boarding school were flying from the schools there
a very high school dropout and more
or less was given in the same times
once some guys flew and they
I asked why it was flying
treated badly they said no no
liked the food they said no
then why are they flying or do they say
because it’s very sad to be
locked in a room only for
that the teacher won on the ground while
Both our family is on the beach
eating turtle egg you like
They know that their family is on the beach
eating turtle eggs
tell me is that when you go see the
star january and on the horizon and sings and
Toads that the turtles left and
our family is going to live there already
eat turtle egg the beach and
we here locked in that is that
we turn and when the time passes
After the turtle we return
during the first ten years I started
to prepare and prepare me in
simultaneous on the one hand I listened to them
but otherwise he studied
social communication and after
expertise in social development but I had
need to take short courses of
anthropology of linguistics because I
I realized that to work with these
peoples, a single discipline is not enough
you need a job after
disciplinary but also that you have to
do it in teams with teams
transdisciplinary I have had the fortune
throughout the whole story of telling
always with interdisciplinary teams
say this job is not to apply
but also part of the team
interdisciplinary is my husband and my
son said that besides being my loves
they are my colleagues
Indians once told me walk
a meeting that will evaluate a
project in the project
called holland colombia came the
Dutch people had invested
resources for two years and now they were going to
evaluate the project then they asked him
to daisy a friend of mine who already
He died that he was an interpreter because
the indigenous people only speak their
language
We were all the professionals of the
sociologist anthropologist project
social worker and pedagogue had
for two years done workshops in
all communities to try to
strengthen your organization and culture
when we asked the indigenous
how did you think the project started
a discussion in the Sicuani language
they discussed and discussed and discussed
we looked at each other with margarita and margarita
He said he says we tell the
Dutch what is going on with
then margarita themes and you see the
professionals were doing
training workshops but the
Indians were waiting and are very brave
because from the beginning they were offered
workshops and they are waiting and two
years later they have not been able to repair or
their bicycles or their bikes because they do not
they have accomplished nothing I never forget the
this Dutchman’s face said until
finish the project it is not possible that in
two years have not been able to put
agreement on the fundamental word and so
We saw failures in livestock projects
projects of minor species projects
of infrastructure projects
agroindustry the entities deliver them
with a sense of future
the community receives it with a sense
of preferential of present and already you
imagine the difference that can
have in the results
the most frequent complaint was against
school in which the indigenous who
he studies he becomes lazy he does not speak his
tongue starts to be ashamed of the
mom of your family of your feeding
and it becomes loose can not stand the big
journeys
I not stand the heat loses
balance to pass a bridge
then we start to see how we change
school and the first thing is to try to
promote that schools will study in
the community so he did not see
internships second that teachers
were indigenous because the teachers
whites that went from the interior of the country
do not be tomorrow they did not adapt
they got sick and we think they are
those who must take charge of their
education
we started to change the plans of
study to include within the plans
I studied their language but it was necessary
define an alphabet of course with the
advice from anthropologist linguists
define a grammar set a
neologism and a metalanguage so that
that language could enter the classrooms
but we also enter the sciences the
botany history because we think
that are knowledge that can not
be banned we also open colleges
in the middle of the jungle in the middle of
the plain but we also support in
agreement with several universities that
teachers could access
degrees by modifying the plans of
study and in all that process we continue
listening and learning and we find
part of what they taught us
indigenous is that to know the country
you have to go through it that is not known in
the map and in the video beam that you have to
to cross it you have to go through the jungle
plain the mountain the coasts and there
we started to discover a colombia
spectacular a prosperous Colombia with
hydrocarbons with mining a colombia
with territorial entities a colombia
with large forestry projects and between
other things one of the most countries
happy of the world
this is a spectacular paradise
however that same Colombia is one is
one of the most inequitable countries
of the world
with a war of more than 50 years that
has the country today polarized with some
problems of political corruption and
administrative that produces us a lot
embarrassment with problems of
drug trafficking with problems of meaning
of belonging and in the middle of that
Colombia 102 indigenous peoples
smart with soul with heart with
a different way of seeing the world
those people speak 65 different languages
to Spanish and each language is a
different perspective of seeing the world
these people are not poor they own
of more than 700 reservations that add up more
of 34 million hectares the color
orange are the indigenous resguardos and
the politicians who appear there are
indigenous peoples at risk
disappear
I wonder poor are not poor
we have become impoverished with our
predatory practices with our
paternalism with the assistance with
arrogance and exclusion
34 million hectares of the property
putumayo in a fighter plane we spend 20
minutes crossing it these towns do not
always understood by school
we see that you understand by
school like the houses the salons the
teachers are the indigenous people for
we which the river in the jungle
of the plain is the community is the
longhouse wish for us which
life and life has positive and
negative and the task of the people is
learn to balance everything is then
We decide on the hand of your
indigenous organizations and their
leaders go out to the communities to
work with life
we have a program
Child protection and training
of families and what we do with it
recover cultural practices
decrease mortality by
malnutrition and diseases
preventable
the indices are shameful we decrease
also intrafamily mistreatment but
we also work to minimize the
effects of the armed conflict on these
children all the problems of the country
they cross the indigenous territories and
they cross their population children
indigenous people who have been killed
injured orphans or recruited by
different actors
11 percent of minors
recruited are indigenous
We have also found cases of
indigenous children sentenced to
execution some of those who do not
We could save the lives of others do
we have been able to save our lives
we also work with your authorities
Indians and I came to a house spoke
by the owner who spoke with the
owner of the house and I respect it
in each guard and authority they are
the owners of the house and if we want
do whatever it takes we have to count on
they then that we teach them their
rights your fundamental rights as
make a guardianship that is an action of
compliance that is a right of
petition that is a demand but
also that they formulate their plans of life
their projects that manage them that the
execute
one of the problems we have seen
the length and breadth of the country that is not
only in the guajira but throughout
and width of the country and not even just the
country is throughout the
continent is hunger and they live in
extensive territories with holds in hand
of work have the tools and
knowledge the seeds since they
they lack, they do not want, we have
lost the enthusiasm
then we check
the mythical story of origin and they
they were created to live in abundance
and to live partied for
what about them then we get together with
they say we put the effort together and
sweat and laughter so that for
produce abundance we sow with soul
of abundance
you have to plant for the thief for the
mouse for me and for the party that
about professionals with a doctorate
expertise with specializations with
undergraduate we returned to touch the earth with
hands
we returned to the ax with the machete to palin
more than 600 families and more than three thousand
hectares established in the Amazon
Peruvian and Colombian planting
more than 91 Amazonian species as
we do with parties with rituals with
spells with great mingas that
we harvest identity
we harvest affection we harvest autonomy
we harvest diversity that we bet on the
native cuisine a diverse kitchen
permanent varied and healthy
I said the old man I want a speech
that you can eat
let yucca speak for me that
the pineapples speak for me
we are doing what the
grandfather these people are carriers of
millenary knowledge and in the
oldest knowledge is the
solution for more problems
modern but the only and legitimate
heirs are them and it is they who
they carry that knowledge and here
we binational guajira
guajira that hurts that burns
More than 5,000 dead children of physics
hungry because there is a lack of water because there is no
food in a guajira
but mining with hydrocarbons in a
guajira with wind energy in a
tourist guajira study how was
the gross domestic product and between 90
and the 2000
the gross domestic product the guajira is
of 7.27
while the national was 4.5 that
this happens that is happening here is
Varicella 22 years died two months ago
after a long struggle against the
hungry
I won the hunger I always heard
He said he wanted to live that he wanted
take advantage of his life he wanted to see
grow their children and flew and when
He died I said I hurt hurts a world
where hunger does not reach you because in
this country and in the guajira no place to
marisela when they ask me about
what the Wayuu die
I say die of a disease that
we have a disease in the country
contagious an illness composed by
exclusion or racism a disease
composed of corruption a disease
composed of society indifference
civilian with his silence with his
indifference has allowed and is an accomplice
of the holocaust not only in the guajira
but across the length and breadth of
indigenous territories that must be done
listen to what there is a problem
we analyze the annals with them and the
solutions we find them with them not
we have to think for them we have to
think with them and let us guide if
these people disappear
it’s Colombia that loses is the
humanity loses while there is
excluded there will be no peace until
let’s get to the plebiscite
so we come to all agreements
while there hungry here or in
anywhere in the world
there will be no peace
you will say but what can we do
US
I learned from these people that the
changes begin in the heart and in the
thought of human beings and that
what changes here changes why they
I ask you to stand up and today all
please ask them to close their eyes
and that we stand in front of a mirror
in that mirror we identify the features
indigenous people that we have in our body
the eyes the hair the nose the skin
the stature and I want you to repeat with me
to a single tone and with strong features
indigenous all please traits
indigenous people and we carry them inside
now we can see them
we recognize them before we did not see them
but now we can see them but not
We are Spanish
we recognize the Spaniards in our
origin although we are not black
we recognize blacks as part of
our origin
and although we are not Indians
we recognize the indigenous as part
from our origin to our ancestors
Indigenous tell them thanks for
the life that they gave us for the territory
who inherited us that we recognize their
effort was worth it and in his honor and
in his memory
we commit ourselves to recognize the
indigenous peoples of Colombia and the
continent because when you
we know
we recognize ourselves and
when we respect respect
ourselves
thank you very much
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