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A lot of discrimination exists toward Aboriginal people who have black, brown and coppery skin. In Argentinean, like in so many countries of South America, the words and the mentality of the white man is worth more than that of the Native man. I personally get tired of seeing how they discriminate against me; to be Aboriginal I cannot be a leader or represent a group of young people. For how I dress and I speak I am outside of all the “social circles.” These kinds of abuses is happens with so much frequency that we are “accustomed” to it and think that we need to adapt our ideologies and repress the authenticity of our ideas, and maybe to cease our way of life and “being” and life a life that others have programmed you to live.
I would like parents to educate their children and pass on the customs and the worldview of our people so that the youth are not ashamed of being recognized Indigenous and protectors of this earth. There have been many years of learning other people’s rites, foreign languages, of trying to interest us with economic accumulation, fashions, globalization, etc. History is still screaming, Aboriginals want freedom, freedom to be able to express ourselves without being censored. Will we ever be heard?
Living in Argentina where there are many people who are “mestizo” i.e. of mixed descent, I cannot understand why our voices and rights are not respected.”
“What is your hope for your people in the future?”
“I hope for the possibility of economic stability and sustainable living on traditional lands, so that the families can return to their places of origin and be not punished in lands unaware to their customs. I also hope that Indigenous peoples can rise up from the past, where we have long been absented from by those love who are been masters of selfishness to this point of being relegated and excluded in our own lands.
I hope we can join together with the popular sectors that aim for the transformation of our society which was announced by the President of Argentina, at the end of 2003: “toward the construction of a new Argentina for all, multi-ethnical and multi-cultural.”
I hope that they will put into action their overdue political agenda that deals with Indigenous Politics that is in accordance to our rights that have been set down in the law of 23.302 of Indigenous Policy and Support of Aboriginal communities which not been completed despite this judicial law being passed 18 years ago in favour of Indigenous peoples. The Agreement 169 of the I.L.O. ratified by law number 24.071 and the Art. 75, parentheses 17 and 22 of the National Constitution, establish guarantees and rights of the Indigenous peoples in Argentina. That they stop the selling of lands that are already occupied by Indigenous people to private land owners and foreign companies. These lands belong to Indigenous communities and should be titled as such, by virtue of an historical vindication.
I yearn for the world to learn and live with tolerance of all kinds of visions and beliefs.”
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