Wolka Namek (Let's walk with me, mate)
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2:54 - 3:01This is a warning for next time you enter Bibikem.
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3:01 - 3:07Maybe in different villages you can just enter and clear forest as you please.
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3:07 - 3:12In other villagers maybe you can buy them based on how many logs.
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3:12 - 3:18We also want to improve. But you must talk to us first before entering this forest.
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3:32 - 3:40We support development. But you can't just take away our customary land.
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3:40 - 3:44We've mapped out our lands. They are unwritten, but marked.
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3:44 - 3:47We can live peacefully just by seeing those marks in the forest.
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3:47 - 3:53We've mapped out lands according to the clans.
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3:53 - 3:56One village to another.
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3:56 - 4:00A creek can be the border between people's lands.
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4:00 - 4:04There are many unwritten signs, but we all can recognise them.
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4:04 - 4:09We know nature because we are close to it.
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4:09 - 4:16We know which belongs to the Gebze clan, or the Awabalik clan, or the Moyuwend.
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4:21 - 4:26Those trees border our areas.
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4:26 - 4:28If you cut down those trees you will just create conflicts.
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4:28 - 4:32Clans could kill each other if you remove the border signs.
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4:32 - 4:38The forests and creeks are the signs given by our ancestors.
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4:38 - 4:40We can tell between clans and families.
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4:40 - 4:42Don't you just come here and lead us to conflicts.
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4:42 - 4:47You flash your money to us, and that can lead to conflicts as well.
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4:47 - 4:53Before people don't value trees with money, now they're beginning to see the monetary values.
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4:53 - 4:55I warn you.
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4:55 - 4:58Let's not kill each other because of the logs.
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4:58 - 4:59Don't get me started on land issues.
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7:32 - 7:38I used to paint the Mahuze clan. Sometimes people thought I'm a Mahuze.
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7:56 - 8:10[Leo preaches]: The second reading: "As God has promised to David, a saviour will come from his ancestry".
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8:27 - 8:39Here you can see the remains of old huts left by our ancestors hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
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8:39 - 8:45This is a testimony that there's no more unclaimed lands here.
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8:45 - 8:50Wherever you go, there are always land owners.
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8:50 - 8:57They are bordered by villages, creeks, forests and the savanna.
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8:57 - 9:04There's no unclaimed land. So whoever wants to enter must come and talk to us first.
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9:04 - 9:07You must determine what's right and wrong.
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9:31 - 9:37[Leo talks to the screening audience]: We try to explain about the changes we are trying to make in these videos.
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9:37 - 9:42We learned together to make these videos.
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10:11 - 10:19[Unlike most Marind] I still talk a lot because I grew up in the city and picked up that tradition.
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10:20 - 10:23But the villagers they don't talk much.
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10:23 - 10:26You're killing them by cutting down their trees.
- Title:
- Wolka Namek (Let's walk with me, mate)
- Description:
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Hybrid tribesman Leo Mouyuend is walking the talk. After spending years protecting his Marind lands and culture through paintings, songs and videos, he is now Bibikem village head. He is now facing MIFEE companies head on.
- Video Language:
- English
- Duration:
- 11:46
Rico Aditjondro edited English subtitles for Wolka Namek (Let's walk with me, mate) | ||
Rico Aditjondro added a translation |