Within the forest, we human beings are the “ecology”… The phrases of “ecology” are our historic phrases, these Omama [Yanomami creator deity] gave our ancestors originally of time…
The white individuals who as soon as ignored all this stuff are actually beginning to hear them slightly. That is why a few of them have invented new phrases to defend the forest. Now they name themselves “individuals of the ecology” as a result of they’re anxious to see their land getting more and more scorching…
We’re inhabitants of the forest. We had been born in the midst of the “ecology” and we grew up in it.
…Prior to now, our elders weren’t capable of make their phrases concerning the forest heard by the white individuals as a result of they didn’t know their language. And when the white individuals first arrived to their homes, they certainly didn’t talk about “ecology.” They had been extra desperate to ask them for jaguar, peccary, and deer skins! At the moment, these outsiders didn’t possess any of those phrases to guard the forest.
Such phrases appeared within the white individuals’s cities not way back…I feel they received scared by so badly ravaging the locations the place they stay. To start with, after I was younger, I by no means heard the white individuals speak about defending “nature…”
As soon as the speak about “ecology” appeared within the cities, our phrases concerning the forest additionally started to have the ability to be heard there. The white individuals began listening to me and telling themselves: “Haixopë! So it’s true, the inhabitants of the forest’s ancestors already possessed ‘ecology’!”
…After they communicate concerning the forest, these white individuals usually use one other phrase: they name it “setting.” This phrase can be not ours and till not too long ago we didn’t understand it both. For us, what the white individuals discuss with on this means is what stays of the forest and land that had been harm by their machines. It’s what stays of every part they’ve destroyed to this point… If at this time the white individuals begin speaking about defending “nature,” they have to not misinform us once more like their elders did…
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Of their land, the white individuals have already cleared practically all the timber. They solely maintain a couple of patches of forest, which they’ve enclosed in fences. I feel that now they intend to do the identical factor in our land. This makes us unhappy and anxious. We don’t want our forest to be ravaged and the white individuals to lastly go away us a couple of scattered little patches of what stays…
What the white individuals name “nature’s safety” is definitely us, the forest individuals, those that have lived below the quilt of its timber for the reason that starting of time… But many are those that proceed to disregard what we are saying. Whereas our phrases generally attain their ears, their thought stays closed. Possibly their youngsters and grandchildren will be capable to hear them in the future?
Then they’ll inform themselves that these are phrases of fact, clear and proper. They may see how lovely the forest is and…they’ll develop into conscious that it was not the white individuals who created it, not it nor its inhabitants, and that when they’re destroyed their governments will be unable to convey them again into being.
