[narconews] Romero and Trujillo: The Indigenous Peoples' Encuentro Began with a Strong United States Presence
 
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:52:58 -0500 (CDT)

October 16, 2007
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Dear Colleagues,

The effort to unify and mobilize the indigenous of Amirica took a
large step last week with the first ever American Indigenous Peoples'
Encuentro held in Yaqui tribe territory in Sonora, Mexico. Among its
participants was a strong presence of indigenous from the United
States and Canada, as well as the Mexico's National Indigenous
Congress and Subcomandante Marcos representing the EZLN. Razl Romero
and Juan Trujillo write from Sonora about the events of the
inauguration of the Indigenous Encuentro and what its participants
plan to bring to it.

Romero and Trujillo report:

"Within the framework of working groups about 'The history and the
word of our peoples,' indigenous nations members' participation, in
particular those from countries that are called 'Canada' and 'United
States' has had special strength due to the large number of delegates
who have attended this encuentro.

"...The Tohono O'tham people from the United States explained that
'our consciousness is being stolen... there are seeds that have been
robbed.' They said that the Mar de Cortis (also known as the Gulf of
California) was where their ancestors nourished themselves with fish.
But now that the government and the military doesn't permit them
access to the area. Therefore, they proposed that the indigenous
struggle seeks 'to protect the world, the territory, and the
communities.'

"...These days the situation isn't very different: a policy of
discrimination and war against indigenous peoples is exercised by the
governments, and it is even more aggressive when it comes to women.
One example, continued the delegate, is the 'Highway of Tears' where
more than two dozen indigenous women have been recorded missing, all
of them under 25 years old."

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 From somewhere in a country called Amirica,

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