Runa Kuti, urban indigenous I consider myself from the native people Colla Descendant of Mbya Guaraní nation I am daughter of Quechuas [singing] Pachamama mother earth [singing] don't eat me... From a Mapuche root [singing] Look that i'm still young, and i have to leave seed [singing] hearts, don't forget me, don't forget me [singing] Pachamama, mother earth, don't eat me yet My name is Sandra Barrientos Callamullo my father, my mother, they are from Potosí, south of Bolivia precisely from a place called Chaquí i belong to the Quechua-Aymara culture i'm the oldest sister of 3, we are 3 sisters we were born here in Argentina we are te first generation born here in Argentina My parents came as many people who emigrates to the big cities looking for that "progress" they were educated with in the place they came from Both my sisters and I lived the first period of our childhood in Villas (poor villages) nothing, this is unbelievable... And these things that parents do in order to protect us that was part part of our history that did not tell us, that we lived there for a while among other things they have done to protect us, such as... not transmit the language not teach us to speak Qechua that's what my parents and my grandparents always spoke I understand them now that at that time they... they tough that if they don't teach us the language, the accent was not going to stick to us and the people were not going to treat us badly but it was an appearance matter the insults, the bad ways... it was really clear not need for them to hear you talk they look at you, and already they treat you bad This one is from Potosí, this is my grandmother's house already in Potosi city not in the countrie side this is my grandfather, this one my grandmother You know how she was up and down with that 'aguayo'? she would come and go just like that Look at Ren, when he was little here my sister, me, Diego As a result of being in Bolivia and the north, meeting with people, and the people's behave that... don't have no comparison it was a different look and different treatment from the people here so you relate with the people in other ways and you find yourself in another way and you say... wow! i never lived this! or maybe i did with mom, dad, the uncles and no one else but not in the streets, in the daily life that was different in that moment something happend, i start to realize what i lived when i was child and how you grow up approving situations that are not good you go naturalizing and normalizing violent living codes so this reinforced also the fact of... of assuming the identity from another point of view start to... love yourself a little bit more that's the way and at the same time go healing wounds as well This is the planisphere with the real proportions At that time it was like starting to... little by little... to see the way is like the first stage of the process of... i don't know how to say it... identification, self-identification... [car pass by] but there was that stage and then the other things comes it's like the strenghtening stage firts it's to know... start to know and then from being doing the activities feel part of it What will cost them to get out and speak with us? I'm Valentin Palma Callamullo, from La Matanza i'm a Quechua descendent Buenos Aires is seen as the Paris of the south, the Paris from Latin America a place without history, where spanish people came to do nothing a couple of persons that resisted and that's it and they was... according to the official story they was exterminated growing up here, it's a little bit difficult the society maybe in some cases a bit discriminatory, maybe a bit xenophobic and they make you feel different and when you are a child, a teenager, you are more vulnerable and you try to hide it, to hide some things because they point at you or they say "bolita", "paraguayan", "chilote" stuff like that or "shitty black" If I speak with my grandparents in Quechua or I say to them that I want to learn they would laugh, they tought I was jocking with them maybe it is naturalized that you don´t have to some things, maybe for the oldest there is no need maybe them already have that, they are peasants not indigenous they don't recognized themselves the interesting for me is, that in my family they can start to feel proud of being indigenous descendent, of being indigenous as in society is also difficult sometimes, a slow process in the family as well maybe to be crossed by the catholicism because after all, we are all crossed by five centuries of a western subjectivity, individualism that prevailed here, or that tries to prevail so, we all have contradictions but the good thing is to identify them and slowly begin to recover the other thing the most important thing (police's sirens) I came here to do my job they warn me, there is a call from to defend our rights to do an indigenous ceremony here where there are remains of our ancestors like there are remains below that private neighborhood that were buried under that private neighborhood we do not make any complaint to them because we know what is the law in this country that is a kind of law that protects the private property not the rights of the people who lived here before these laws came before the ones you work with let's get into legal issues, do you want to come with me? come on, here is a public road that reaches the other side where the people walk (radio) "because now in the fields and the mountains of America" (radio) "in the slopes of the hills" (radio) "in the plains and jungles" (radio) "between loneliness or city traffic" (radio) "on the shores of the great oceans and rivers" (radio) "the world is beginning to shake" Ha'e peme'e, che réra Dario, che Mbyá Guaraní Hello everyone, my name is Darío and I'm a Mbyá Guarani's descendant (radio) "500 years ago fooled" (radio) "by some and by others" (radio) "the history will have to count with the America's poor people" (radio) "with the exploited and spurned of Latin America" (radio) "that has decided to start writing themselves, forever, their own history" I was born in Buenos Aires but I didn't lived my childhood there when I was 3 months old, I was already traveling to Misiones I always say as a joke, at 3 months old I was a political exile my entire childhoos was in the mount so, there is a conexion with the mount, with the energy that the jungle has I grew up with that and then, always connected to the rock all my teenage years were very connected with this kind of music with friends who always were in rock and metal scene when I was 20 years old, because family issues, I came by myself to live in Buenos Aires it was a quite strong change, because the city where I used to lived called "El Dorado" was a very humble neighborhood, really small in comparasion of living in a big metropolis such as Buenos Aires it was shocking after a while, living in Buenos Aires I started to research about native peoples but it was just a matter of interest I wanted to know what they thought, I even spoke in past tense what they believed, what they had in mind and when I was finding out a little more I realize that there were some things of native peoples that were not wrote in the books and even the people would tell you about native peoples and there were missing things so, because I always traveled to Misiones at least, two or three times a year I do because a spiritual need, I could say I need to intern myself a while in the mount I found out that what I have to do is go and get into an indigenous community so, I took my bag and went I got into the community, I introduce myself I was welcome a community called Yeyé, wich in spanish means Palmitos obviously my head made a terrible turn because I found that there was lots more about this matter - and because is you - I think I was more interested in activism, see more about this peoples I wanted to get involved more in this subject and I start to take part, to connect with the people that was in the most political part, if you want to say it or more specific claims as the land issue, the security issue health issues, this a bit more... serious I think we should also have a spiritual independence become independent of the spiritual terrorism that the catholic system has being doing along all this years what they are doing, I would called it spiritual terrorism And at the time, my mother asked me, what I was doing with the indigenous matters Because I knew she had her bad... her experience from what the 76's dictatorship was I didn't want to tell her a lot, not to scare and I told her: look, most of them, are cultural activities we talk about indigenous customs And she said to me: I asked you, because the parents of your grandmother were indigenous And I say to her: are you telling me that part of my blood is indigenous? and she said: yes, your grandmother and her parents were indigenous, from Guaranies So... i was someone searching something that already had seems crazy to tell it this way, but I was looking for little pieces, putting together something that was already made I'm Argentinian, born here in Argentina, but my mother and father are Bolivian. I'm Pedro, Pedro, just Pedro, another one in this world Something happend to me that unfortunately happens to everybody in the life, my mother gone, died. Being walking and remembering I had a very deep and personal question: How do I continued the relationship between my mother and I after that? Amazingly in the middle of the hills I was walking around and kicking stones I think I gave myself the best answer to my own question why not do what she always did? Why not to continue with the things she did... in the way she walked? and then I remembered that she had never left, since I have memory, to make her ceremony to Mother Earth. So instead of closing my door because I was a little more alone, I opened my door and there began to come kids from the neighborhood I started to try to be useful to the community with a small place to give food to the poors in the weekend and I was thinking how I would continue the way of my mother about their culture and their traditions and their cosmovision... And in that time i told to the kids that were coming there: look, is about 1 August and I wanted to do a ceremony for Mother Earth and logical kids when they are young, they have no prejudice They said, what is it?. I tell them we will make a meal, we will share with each otjer and we will make an offering to Mother Earth and the kids said: yeah, yeah let's do, let's do and this was the begging of my cultural roots rescue's story This library began more or less in the early 90's. At first it was on that corner, a pile of books and magazines with papers and a group of guys with who we started doing crafts, I wasn't a craftsman either, I didn't know, but trying to entertain them and give them something they could use and that they could be helpful with, I started to learn, and that makes us appreciate all that surrounds us and that's what today I would say from the small library that yes, in part I humbly think, I'm succeeding, to convey that, to show the world view of indigenous peoples. Teach this, show this to the kids, starts to encourage them to realize and respect the culture of the fathers and mothers, but sometimes older people comes too and talking about this, perhaps is a way I might... or I tell them how myself now, older, I start to realize this, and they begin to think back, to remember their parents, their grandparents and they start to recover their identity. One day, at the University of I studied at the University of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and one day a colleague told me about this and the following Saturday we came That was almost a year ago, in March 2010 and then I came and well ... and I could not go I began to be here a couple of days until I left everything there and I came to live here The oldest do not understand yet. is contradictory because they keep traditions of indigenous culture, even though this pierced by Catholicism, retain several things that perhaps unknowingly ... and being the closest to that and like that, maybe they do not understand sometimes the younger, cousins or uncles they do realize because the place is very strong, I mean, not only the nature or being facing to something so disgusting like these is mostly connected with the history of the place, and without being esoteric mysticism or anything, it feels, There is an energy in the place We try to take only what is on the surface what is kind of burried we don´t take it out but the reality is that after the water comes and takes it all. When this gets lower you can walk around Here I am seeing a lot more of pieces There are plenty. See beneath the landfill Yes, some people calls me Pablo, the indian About ten years now that I am participate in an alternative media, Indymedia working with news of native people. What we are asking is that this part of the lands that were sold make a reversal of entrepreneurship of the private neighborhood to remain as a public space which claims to indigenous peoples, to protect archaeological remains that are in this place, remaining open place to use as it has been used for decades This will mean to make the first claim to the indigenous peoples of Buenos Aires rigjt outside of the Capital. We are trying to make is that, by retrieving this place, it begins to speak, serve as a trigger to think Buenos Aires in other ways to raise awareness throug all the population living in Buenos Aires that the history of this place is not what we have been taught since childhood. Where is Pablich? ... Pablich ... New shirt, new shoes, hairstyle, tie, trousers, they have everything They arrived when the machines began to build that and after, the peole came the people who speaks english and live inside They are yankees priest from Arizona. I think is a paradox how the come 500 years ago they came with the cross and the sword from Spain and today, the come with the bulldozers and the cross from United States in versions of those places Is the same history, like a spanish poet said "Some people read ten centuries of history and closes the book because it is always the same" but the good thing is that in this story there is always another story, which is not told, the voice of the vanquished, supposedly that slowly is beginning to be heard and to be visible [singing] The days are passing, the nights are going [singing] The days are passing, the nights are going [singing] my youth fading like flowers of the field [singing] Oh, I am so sad, I feel like crying [singing] remembering those moments that we were very happy [singing] Oh, I am so sad, I feel like crying [singing] remembering those moments that we were very happy [singing] they say, say, say that you want me [singing] they say, say, say that you love me [singing] If you want me, why you don´t kiss me? [singing] If you want me, why you don´t hug me? [singing] they say, say, say that you want me [singing] they say, say, say that you love me [singing] If you want me, why you don´t kiss me? [singing] If you want me, why you don´t hug me? I listened to folk music and after that I started to listen and play Sikus traditional music (from the Andes) and in this moment I realized the function, the funcionality of the music the reason of the music of the origin of the music in the different cultures [Sing in Quechua] Lloqo lloqo qollunxa [Sing in Quechua] waki wawa llupt'añan [Sing in Quechua] Lloqo lloqo qollunxa [Sing in Quechua] waki wawa llupt'añan [Sing in Quechua] ukataki atipxayasipxasma [Sing in Quechua] ukataki atipxayasipxasma This is the important thing, the interrelation between people the interrelation between the differents voices of the instrument and singing in group this is... what also when you start to do it, to share it, to experience it you feel it one thing is to play alone triying to cover one song and another different thing it's to play all togheter I listen to Heavy Metal since I have 12 years is a music that accompanied me throughout adolescence throughout this period of rebellion... ¿how do you say? of craziness always accompanied with the Heavy Metal and when i was a boy I said: when I grow up I'm going to have a band [music] I miss the rock, in the blood [music] I miss the rock, in the blood [music] I miss the rock, in the blood When I started with the indigenous militancy i continue with my... listen to the same music then something appears in my life way I'm going to be a militant indigenous that renounced to his musical preferences or I'm going to be a heavy metal that renounced to his roots I had this dilemma then i said: no, why I can't do not both? and I proposed the idea I want to make a band like this, going to have a lot from indigenous peoples going to be a lot of words from the indigenous peoples lot of message from the indigenous people and well ... Charlie looked at me as he is saying to say: What!? ¡¿What you want to do?! and I proposed the name [singing] Good night [singing] this is [singing] XON-DA-RO Xondaros was, or still are, the protectors of the communities they are communities physical and spiritual protectors [singing] They can not defeat me Obviously we did not invent anything There are many bands that take indigenous issues in his lyrics maybe the change we do is: the present and the future of the indigenous message My thing is heavy metal is what I like to do everyone, every person in his own place have to do his own fight some with music, another with writing, another through journalism in the schools everyone has to let out the fight that we have inside from that place So we can say that from there we go shooting is our strength - She, the weaver - wakes up when is still night - like if she's listening the sound of the day - then, picks up a clear strand and passes it - between this threads - Quickly the first line of light on the horizon is draw In Punta Querandí began to spread the rumor that it was an indigenous cemetery that was to be destroyed by a private neighborhood from that point, seeing that the authorities that had to protect this place didn't do it Starts an organization called Movimiento en Defensa de la Pacha composed by indigenous, environmentalists, journalists, neighbors... a confluence of very important parts I was learning in this way that everything around me everything with which I fed everything with which I heal even with the clothes I usually wear was coming from the earth when we have the concept is easy to understand that we are children of the Pacha (Pachamama) and we are all brothers For me what unites the cultures in the wolrd is the feeling of love for the earth the respect to the space where we are Ancestral peoples are now returning to their territory they not die, they are, they are still here they are pushing us Our Grandparents have been watching the movements of the universe they have seen cycles of five centuries now it's begining a movement ... in a global level that is making that the knowledge of the ancient cultures are gaining more space Pacha Kuti happens every 500 years Pacha means cosmos, universe, mother earth Kuti means to return, go back, change ... I am very happy with what is happening in South America I like that my generation, and people a little older than me, we are preparing this way very hard times are coming, very nasty times but also some very strong times at some level... at a earth level we can say at Abya Yala level, the new world It's like we are looking inside for this equilibrium also for the outside does not? Indigenous people always speak of cyclic life always cyclic life begins and ends, begins and ends Circular life And we go back to that point again going through the best of times, apparent and returning to that situation in which we will recover our natural living between man and nature and equilibrium in all concepts dynamic, electrodynamic, cultural, life ... We know we are planting a seed here I'm positive that there is no turning back will be another balance of power You see that there are more and more people working for equilibrium It's a phenomenon, there is a revaluation and I bet to this revaluation we can create a more conscious society we can We began to start giving more value to a corn than to a gold ring overturning that value, that economic system of value, money and gold Big part of that essence is still inside of many people it's inside the persons is just to assume the responsability return to a relationship with nature And that love for the earth, to the universe is the love to yourself, and to everything We are all in that way there is some people, that still fail to realize but someday, with consciousness, as they said the grandparents or by pain they will begin to realize ¡¡JALLALLA JALLALLA TATA INTI!! (Hurrah Hurrah for the Grandfather Sun) ¡¡JALLALLA!! (Hurrah) ¡¡JALLALLA JALLALLA TATA INTI!! (Hurrah Hurrah for the Grandfather Sun) ¡¡JALLALLA!! (Hurrah) ¡¡JALLALLA JALLALLA TATA INTI!! (Hurrah Hurrah for the Grandfather Sun) ¡¡JALLALLA JALLALLA TATA INTI!! (Hurrah Hurrah for the Grandfather Sun) [singing] Five centuries resisting [singing] five centuries of courage [singing] maintaining always the essence [singing] Five centuries resisting [singing] five centuries of courage [singing] maintaining always the essence [singing] Is your essence and it's seed [singing] and it's inside of us forever [singing] Is your essence and it's seed [singing] and it's inside of us forever [singing] It becomes life with the Sun [singing] and flowers in the Pachamama [singing] It becomes life with the Sun [singing] and flowers in the Pachamama [singing] At the edge of a path [singing] my brothers live [singing] At the edge of a path [singing] my brothers live [singing] They ask God, persecuted [singing] you can call them Qom [singing] They ask God, persecuted [singing] you can call them Qom [singing] Primavera! persecuted [singing] you can call them Qom [singing] Primavera! persecuted [singing] you can call them Qom