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THE YANOMAMI LIVED IN A TERRITORY IN
THE NORTH OF BRAZIL AND SOUTH OF VENEZUELA

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FOR OVER 1000 YEARS

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500 YEARS BEFORE EITHER COUNTRY EXISTED,
THE YANOMAMI WERE ALREADY THERE

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Pay attention.
Check for snakes over there.

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There might be some. They curl up.

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Always check underneath.

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It's cold.

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This is alligator food.

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The Yanomami don't know how to eat that,
but the alligator does.

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It can actually chew these rocks.

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When you cut an alligator's belly,
you find many rocks like these.

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Look at this.

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If we cook it, it'll be good.

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If we cook it, then we can eat it?

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Don't eat it like that.

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You could die.

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Come here, quick!

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Come to my lap to wash your feet.

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In the river Ananariu, where no one goes,

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I like to hunt.

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Caciques, tortoises, alligators,

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spider monkeys, bearded sakis,
curassows, peccaries...

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The monkey only falls
when you hit it right.

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It's very quick and hard to hit.

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You have to shoot precisely.

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They become agitated.

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Try to hop away...

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- There's plenty of game there.
- ...and fall down.

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- This tastes good!
- I'll have some tapioca.

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Taste it. Is it good?

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- I want this one.
- This one's mine.

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White people don't know us.

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Their eyes have never seen us.

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Their ears don't understand our speech.

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That is why I must go
where white people live.

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Why is it that I must go there?

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What will I do
in the land of white people?

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We must not be afraid.

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They don't know the Yanomami up close.

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I don't want to go there
bringing festive food,

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or traditional dances.

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Because we are children of Omama,

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the last children of the forest,

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we must fight so that our children
grow up healthy,

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so that our daughters
can mature into women.

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I must teach them our way of thinking.

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- They have firearms.
- Hey, prospector! Go away from here!

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Only three men and a single shotgun.

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You won't work here.
My people won't let you mine here.

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- Look, boss, hear me...
- You have no respect!

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Liar. Thief! Away! Go away!

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If there's only a few
white people, they run away!

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If there's 20, 30, or 40, they run away.

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If we don't protect ourselves,

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after they find gold,
they'll come by the thousands.

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On the stone...

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on the stone, upriver, where they worked,

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the creek has dried out.

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The river has turned to mud.

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That can also happen to this river.

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Everything's dry over there.

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If you follow the river,
follow its full course

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everywhere they've mined,

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it's all dry.

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That's why we have to tell the others

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how different it was in the past.

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If the gold prospectors surprise us here,

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coming down by helicopter,

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if they bring gifts and shotguns,
don't take them!

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A shotgun won't feed you.

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If we accept gifts

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of cartridges, primers,
gunpowder, lead, we'll all get sick.

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The mercury will make your
head hurt until you die.

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You have to stay alert.

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It's dark here in the forest,
so people sleep quickly,

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since everything's quiet.

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There are no cars, no lights,
we can sleep well.

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When you dream,
you organize your thoughts.

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I wonder what I dreamed of...

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I'll sleep hungry today,
so maybe I'll dream.

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I'll sleep by the fire.
I really am the forest.

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I'm the forest itself, hot.

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He's hot. Davi is hot.

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It's a supernatural fire.

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The spirit Thorumari.

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It brought the summer and stayed.

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I dreamed that the anaconda
almost swallowed me,

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and the jaguar carried me away.

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And the Yawarioma
put a spell on me in the forest.

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Do you want to lie in my hammock?

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I really dreamed it. I was scared.

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I'm not scared.

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In the beginning, there were no rivers.

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Water ran deep underneath the earth.

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You could only hear the waters from afar
flowing in strong currents.

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No human being lived there.

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There were only supernatural beings,

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the animals,

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and the brothers, Omama and Yoasi.

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One day, Omama dug a hole
through the forest floor.

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Water started to accumulate on the ground

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and then flow in every direction,

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creating the rivers
and lakes of the forest.

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No more thirst.

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All the trees we have

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were planted by them.

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Once, as they were picking fruit,

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they realized, from atop the trees,

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that the trees had grown a lot.

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So they created great winds.

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The winds were very strong.

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They blew where the forest
was more beautiful.

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They blew where the forest
was very healthy.

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They blew where the forest was stronger.

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So everything smelled nice.

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Thus, the smell of the forest was created.

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As were all the smells.

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The smell of all the flowers,
the smell of the tree bark.

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But the brothers felt very lonely
living by themselves in the forest.

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They asked themselves:

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"How can two men create a woman?"

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"How would that be possible?"

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At first, Yoasi copulated
with his own leg until it got pregnant.

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But that made his leg give birth to a boy.

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And they kept on alone
in a world without women.

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But we, the forest-dwellers,
weren't born from his calf.

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We came out of the vagina
of Omama's wife, Thuëyoma.

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And when he pulled on the rope,

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she slowly came out of the water,
and he started to pull.

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And he pulled on the rope,

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and pulled, and pulled...

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She appeared.

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Do you have a boyfriend or husband
in the water world?

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I don't have a boyfriend, nor any suitors.

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- How do you feel about that?
- When I lived in the underwater forest,

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I felt alone until you found me.

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I was very happy when you fished me out.

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Thuëyoma was a fish being

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who allowed herself
to be captured in woman form.

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If Omama hadn't fished her from the river,

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humans might still be copulating
with their own knee.

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Where is the game meat?

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I went hunting but found nothing.

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You smell of woman. Don't lie to me.

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You're my brother. You know I want it too.

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You can see her too.

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She lives underwater,
at the bottom of the big lake.

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After they talked about that,

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his brother rushed to the river.

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To seek Thuëyoma.

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Why do you look so sad?

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Because of your brother.

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Yoasi.

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He slept with me.

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He made me sad.

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Your brother has a misshapen penis.

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He hurt me. He wasn't as tender as you.

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He didn't try to get closer first.
He didn't take it slow.

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He hurt me.

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Yoasi!

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Yoasi!

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Yoasi, what are you doing?

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I'm reshaping my penis on the stone.

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Where's your son?

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I just gave him to the evil spirits.
He cried too much.

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I really want to shoot you.

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Why did you hurt Thuëyoma?

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Why did you give the child
to the evil spirit?

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Find yourself another place to live.
You don't belong in my land.

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You're no longer my brother.
Go find some place else.

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You brought disease to this land.

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I don't want you here. You hurt Thuëyoma.

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And, after that fight,

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Thuëyoma went to live with
Omama, and they got married.

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Only these two men existed.

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Omama became
the protector of the Yanomami.

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We, the Yanomami,
are children of Omama and Thuëyoma.

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We also know that
we all come from the same blood.

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And the other one, called Yoasi,

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was expelled to the other side

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of the great ocean river.

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There he created death.

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Death lay sleeping
on the Potoporisiki tree.

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The toucan spirit cried on that tree.
That's why we cry when someone dies.

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That spoiled our life-breath
and we became mortal.

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So, Omama buried the evil spirits
and the smoke of disease underground

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along with the ores.

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That's why we shouldn't
take ore from the earth,

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so that we don't awaken
the smoke of disease.

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You'll eat soon, wait there with Grandma.

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Mommy's making your food.

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Mom, my husband went out to hunt
yesterday but hasn't come back.

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We slept alone until dawn.

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The children were sad.

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He still hasn't come back since yesterday.

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He went out yesterday,
but hasn't come back?

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Maybe a forest spirit

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cast a spell on him.

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I thought he'd come back this morning.

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He might've been taken
by a herd of peccary.

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Or maybe the jaguar ate him.

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Brother-in-law!

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Brother-in-law!

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That's how their forest is.

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- The city's pretty nice.
- Is Boa Vista beautiful?

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Yes, I went there years ago
with the gold prospectors.

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The food is good.

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You should come work for us.

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- Didn't you bring any prey?
- I found nothing.

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Let me tell you something.

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I know you like the non-natives.

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I know how you feel.

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You want to go with
the gold prospectors.

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Their products can put a spell on us.

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They seem well-meaning.

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They want to help.

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I used to like them very much.
They called me to work.

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I did everything they asked me to.

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But when you're alone,

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no one cares about you, and you go hungry.

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You go hungry and there's no game to hunt.

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No one gives you a place to sleep.

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And even if you learn the language,
you'll never be one of them.

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You can't turn into them.

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The non-natives
will always ask themselves,

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"Who is that one?"

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"We don't know who he is."

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"What is this forest-dweller doing here?"

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"He shouldn't have come."

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"Go back to your home!"

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"We, the non-natives,
don't mix with the Yanomami."

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Stay in the forest.

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Only in our forest can you sleep in peace.

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You won't work for other people.

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You can hunt if you want to,
lie down if you want to,

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play if you want to,
go for a walk if you want to.

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I've lived in the world of non-natives,

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and that is why I'm telling you.

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- So? Do you copy?
- Roger! Loud and clear.

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The waters of the Parawau river,
of the Palimiu river,

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of the Mucajaí river...

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We've already seen gold
prospectors in these rivers.

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Gold prospectors.

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Gold prospectors...

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When I'm speaking you have to keep quiet.

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Pay attention and listen.
Understood? Do you copy?

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Okay, brother-in-law.
I hear you loud and clear, father-in-law.

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Listen up.

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If you all agree, say "yes".
Pay attention to the land.

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But keep calm,
and don't let sadness get to you.

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Far away, on the white man's land,

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I need to go there and discuss all this...

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We're talking at the same time.

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Wait until I've finished!

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00:42:21,630 --> 00:42:25,726
I'm passing on my words.
Explaining. Do you copy?

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Roger that, father-in-law.

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00:42:27,450 --> 00:42:30,616
We understand.
It's just that many are listening in.

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- Do you copy?
- I'm listening!

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00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:37,660
1986, do you remember?

263
00:42:37,950 --> 00:42:42,000
There was a great invasion
of gold prospectors.

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00:42:42,110 --> 00:42:44,706
They're coming back now.

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00:42:44,790 --> 00:42:49,800
On the lands of Xirixiana, Xiriana,

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00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,836
and Palimiu too.

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00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:57,380
They're all suffering,
drinking mercury-contaminated water.

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00:42:57,570 --> 00:43:02,356
This is why I have to get the word out,
so that we can get help. Do you copy?

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- Roger!
- Copy!

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00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,206
- Copy that!
- Roger!

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00:43:07,290 --> 00:43:08,590
Copy that!

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00:43:08,820 --> 00:43:12,110
Things are in bad shape in Kayanu.

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00:43:12,270 --> 00:43:16,890
They're drinking contaminated water,
they can't sleep well,

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they can't be happy.

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- Copy?
- Copy that!

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00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:27,896
We live in an arm of the Mucujaí river.
They're reaching us already.

277
00:43:27,980 --> 00:43:33,396
There are more earth-eaters again.
They'll reach your houses' doors.

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00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:40,070
There are 10,000 or more coming.
This is why we have to speak up.

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- Copy?
- Roger.

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00:43:42,740 --> 00:43:47,570
I'll leave you with those words.
Take care of your children's health.

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It's time to pay attention
to the children's health.

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Understood?

283
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,156
- Roger.
- We understand.

284
00:43:56,240 --> 00:44:02,856
When you speak, your words go everywhere.

285
00:44:02,940 --> 00:44:07,796
- We'll pay attention!
- That's right, Palimiu.

286
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:09,630
They're too many!

287
00:44:33,690 --> 00:44:36,810
Yawarioma took my husband.

288
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,160
I dreamed she took him to the water world.

289
00:44:40,630 --> 00:44:43,920
And he stayed there.
He must be living there.

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00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:47,100
I need you, shamans.

291
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:55,237
I want to drink the Yekuana
medicine and go after him.

292
00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:05,956
The shaman spirits
don't cure without a purpose.

293
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,700
Even if you drink it,

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you may not see the spirits.

295
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:19,010
You might sing until you're weak.

296
00:45:42,180 --> 00:45:46,520
We, the shamans,
will help you bring him back.

297
00:45:47,460 --> 00:45:52,570
Then you have to bathe him
to get rid of the woman's smell.

298
00:45:53,660 --> 00:45:55,620
It will help him calm down.

299
00:45:57,780 --> 00:46:00,400
The evil spirits have many shapes.

300
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:05,500
Yawarioma, who's a woman-shaped fish,
may have lured him into the river.

301
00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:09,150
He may have been seduced
by the evil spirits of ore,

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00:46:09,630 --> 00:46:13,560
or fallen into a trap of the prospectors,
who release the smoke of disease.

303
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,630
Many have departed this way.

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00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:04,160
Her name is Thuëyoma.

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00:51:04,930 --> 00:51:07,710
- Thuëyoma.
- Thuëyoma.

306
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:11,130
Does she live in the water?

307
00:51:11,260 --> 00:51:15,320
She lives in the lake. Underwater.

308
00:51:16,610 --> 00:51:18,040
Doesn't she drown?

309
00:51:18,970 --> 00:51:25,110
She won't drown, it's her home.
It's the water world.

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That's a lot of water!

311
00:51:28,050 --> 00:51:30,690
There's plenty of clean water
where she lives.

312
00:51:31,180 --> 00:51:32,980
Is there land as well?

313
00:51:33,580 --> 00:51:38,000
- She can put up a hammock.
- There's everything, then.

314
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- There's everything!
- Just like here.

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Her home.

316
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Mommy, I want tapioca.

317
00:53:13,550 --> 00:53:15,086
Mommy, I want tapioca.

318
00:53:15,170 --> 00:53:20,310
- You want tapioca?
- Yes.

319
00:53:33,470 --> 00:53:34,970
It's hot.

320
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- Your tapioca.
- My tapioca.

321
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,540
This is my tapioca.

322
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:26,280
Mamurona made the first baskets

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without knowing we'd make so many.

324
00:54:32,910 --> 00:54:36,510
Our ancestors don't teach
without a reason.

325
00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:42,760
It'd be good to create
a women's association.

326
00:54:44,900 --> 00:54:49,330
We could exchange more baskets for food.

327
00:54:49,500 --> 00:54:54,870
The baskets we learned from Mamurona.

328
00:54:55,220 --> 00:54:59,880
Take what Mamurona taught us
to the land of white people.

329
00:55:00,130 --> 00:55:04,090
That way we'd depend less on the men.

330
00:55:04,580 --> 00:55:11,006
When we have the need, we can make more.

331
00:55:11,090 --> 00:55:13,526
We, the women,

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00:55:13,610 --> 00:55:18,330
can weave more if we're together.

333
00:55:18,470 --> 00:55:24,030
As a group, an association,
we exchange more, and don't go hungry.

334
00:55:24,430 --> 00:55:29,850
White people are always after our baskets.

335
00:56:51,620 --> 00:56:53,910
Gold prospectors dream a lot.

336
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:56,650
While they sleep,

337
00:56:57,780 --> 00:57:00,140
money is all they dream about.

338
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:06,100
They keep dreaming,
"What can I find by digging?"

339
00:57:07,240 --> 00:57:12,740
"If I find gold,
what will I do with the money?"

340
00:57:12,830 --> 00:57:14,260
That's all they think about.

341
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:19,476
But they don't get to keep the money,
the businessmen do.

342
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:23,700
These ones don't come here.

343
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:25,770
The workers will stay poor.

344
00:57:26,340 --> 00:57:28,880
They don't live well.

345
00:57:31,060 --> 00:57:36,720
Omama hid the ores underground
so no one would mess with them.

346
00:57:37,890 --> 00:57:41,020
White people turn over
the land to find oil, gold.

347
00:57:43,210 --> 00:57:47,520
And they free evil spirits,

348
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:51,390
the smoke disease spreads.

349
00:57:53,010 --> 00:57:56,700
The diseases and the poison
could increase.

350
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:59,060
They will increase.

351
00:58:01,490 --> 00:58:06,600
We, Yanomami shamans,

352
00:58:06,820 --> 00:58:09,560
must fight.

353
00:58:10,930 --> 00:58:12,696
The diseases are many.

354
00:58:12,780 --> 00:58:18,340
Tuberculosis, pneumonia...

355
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:24,110
Omama created
the Xapiri spirits to protect us.

356
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,680
We need to do a great shamanic ritual.

357
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:33,990
And call the Xapiri
to stop the evil spirits.

358
00:58:35,170 --> 00:58:41,310
- This is not their forest.
- Omama put this forest under our care.

359
00:58:42,426 --> 00:58:44,884
When we lived up north,

360
00:58:45,220 --> 00:58:48,460
we saw many relatives die
because of the mercury in the water.

361
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:48,670
Pay attention!

362
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:52,160
My name is Davi Kopenawa Yanomami,

363
01:06:52,810 --> 01:06:56,500
and I'll teach you some things.

364
01:06:57,020 --> 01:07:02,980
You, who live here
on the other side of the river,

365
01:07:03,610 --> 01:07:05,130
can't see from here.

366
01:07:06,190 --> 01:07:09,100
You think everything
is beautiful in the forest.

367
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:13,260
But the white people's authority

368
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:17,810
allowed the gold in our land
to be prospected.

369
01:07:19,180 --> 01:07:24,740
The non-native authorities
use this word a lot,

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01:07:24,830 --> 01:07:26,600
"Important".

371
01:07:27,130 --> 01:07:32,720
For you, who live in the city,

372
01:07:33,690 --> 01:07:39,450
products are the most important thing.

373
01:07:40,900 --> 01:07:44,936
Although there are plenty of products,

374
01:07:45,020 --> 01:07:50,110
white people don't share them.

375
01:07:51,290 --> 01:07:53,880
They are greedy.

376
01:07:54,180 --> 01:08:00,380
Making too many products
is bad for the forest.

377
01:08:02,090 --> 01:08:07,440
What matters to us are
the animals in the forest, fertility.

378
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:13,330
What's important is sharing
food amongst our people,

379
01:08:13,530 --> 01:08:19,870
our survival, our growth, our way of life,

380
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:23,880
and our existence as people.

381
01:08:59,340 --> 01:09:05,016
IN 1986, THE DISCOVERY OF
GOLD DEPOSITS IN YANOMAMI LAND

382
01:09:05,100 --> 01:09:10,220
LED TO THE INVASION OF 45,000 PROSPECTORS
AND THE DEATH OF 1,500 TO 1,800 NATIVES

383
01:09:13,770 --> 01:09:16,886
IN 1992, THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT LEGALLY
RECOGNIZED YANOMAMI LAND RIGHTS

384
01:09:16,970 --> 01:09:21,783
EVEN STILL, IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR,
PROSPECTORS RAIDED A VILLAGE

385
01:09:21,822 --> 01:09:27,236
AND KILLED 16 NATIVES
WITH GUNSHOTS AND MACHETE BLOWS

386
01:09:27,275 --> 01:09:30,548
SOME OF THE VICTIMS WERE ELDERLY PEOPLE,
WOMEN, AND CHILDREN

387
01:09:30,564 --> 01:09:33,050
THE INCIDENT BECAME KNOWN AS
THE HAXIMU MASSACRE

388
01:09:35,580 --> 01:09:37,486
DUE TO ENSUING BACKLASH
FROM THE BRAZILIAN PRESS

389
01:09:37,501 --> 01:09:39,036
AND BOLSTERED BY INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

390
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:42,286
DAVI GOT THE BRAZILIAN
GOVERNMENT TO ENFORCE THE LAW

391
01:09:42,370 --> 01:09:47,010
AND KEEP THE PROSPECTORS OUT
OF YANOMAMI LAND FOR 25 YEARS

392
01:09:50,220 --> 01:09:54,676
AFTER THE INAUGURATION OF A NEWGOVERNMENT
IN 2019, OVER 20,000 PROSPECTORS

393
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:59,516
ONCE AGAIN INVADED YANOMAMI LAND, TEARING
DOWN THE RAINFOREST,

394
01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:03,560
POISONING THE RIVERS WITH MERCURY
AND BRINGING COVID-19 TO THEIR VILLAGES

395
01:10:03,650 --> 01:10:07,690
RATHER THAN UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION,
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO

396
01:10:07,780 --> 01:10:11,620
LEGALIZE PROSPECTOR
INVASION OF NATIVE LAND

397
01:10:13,870 --> 01:10:16,646
DAVI HAS BEEN RECEIVING DEATH THREATS

398
01:10:16,730 --> 01:10:19,880
FOR HIS DENUNCIATION
OF ILLEGAL PROSPECTING

399
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:14,670
THE LAST FOREST