September 12th , 2022 Our History, our voice: a short story
by AIKA - Associacao Indigena do Povo Katurama
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The Pataxó and Pataxo Hã-hã-hãe, two groups of indigenous peoples in Brazil, were hit by Vale’s crime in Brumadinho, in 2019. After four years, we are fighting for reparation and we want to tell our own story.
AIKA - Associacao Indigena do Povo Katurama
The Katurama Indigenous community is made up of family groups from the Pataxó and Pataxó Hã-hã-hãe ethnicities, in the former Mata do Japonês, located in the municipality of São Joaquim de Bicas (MG). These are groups of indigenous people affected by the collapse of the Vale Dam in 2019 and that have wider family trees – that is, their extended and parental families – in villages distributed in the south and extreme south of Bahia.
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The objective of this initiative is to transmit to the whole world a little of our history, of what we are living after the Vale’s crime in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 2019.
The Indigenous Community of Aldeia Katurãma is formed by groups of families from the Pataxó and Pataxó Hã-hã-hãe ethnicities. We were hit by Vale’s crime in Brumadinho, in 2019. After almost four years, we are in the fight for reparation and we want to tell our own story about this painful, long and violent process. The objective of this initiative is to transmit to the whole world a little of our history, the problems we are experiencing and the construction of solutions to these problems.
The problems and challenges faced by our Indigenous Community continue in all species, such as the insecurity experienced in the territory, whether due to the unavailability of minimum elements for the dignity of human life, such as access to water; or by the procedures adopted by Vale S.A. post breakup. It is in this sense that we denounce the violations of rights suffered by our Indigenous Community of Village Katurãma;
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