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Achuar & Wampis GeoPark Victory "We want a healthy territory, free from contamination for our future generations. That's why we don't accepty any oil exploitation in our territory. We are going to continue fighting until we have secured the nullification of Block 64." -  Nelton Yankur, President of the Federation of Achuar Nationalities of Peru (FENAP)

The struggle to defend 5 million acres of Achuar and Wampis ancestral territory in the Peruvian Amazon has just notched another win, with the announcement of the irrevocable departure of Chile-based oil company GeoPark.

The present defense of this biodiverse region – roughly the size of Massachusetts – has been a multi-decade process. Amazon Watch has long partnered with the Achuar to successfully expel multiple international oil companies, including ARCO, Occidental Petroleum, and Talisman Energy.

Today, we celebrate years of collaboration and hard work to fend off yet another oil company that was supported by the world's largest investment firms and powerful governments.

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💻 www.faravisa.com #ecuador🇪🇨 #achuar La nacionalidad Achuar confirmó este miércoles una docena de positivos por COVID-19 en sus comunidades y resolvió impedir el ingreso de avionetas y foráneos a sus territorios ancestrales, anunciaron varios dirigentes indígenas.#covid_19 En una rueda de prensa virtual el liderazgo de esta nacionalidad que se reparte entre las provincias amazónicas de Pastaza y Morona Santiago, denunció la falta de apoyo del Ministerio de Salud para la detección rápida de casos de coronavirus y la formación de cercos epidemiológicos. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAbDkPtBnTf/?igshid=91yogiihbvow

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NIÑOS INDÍGENAS DISFRUTAN DE CLINICA DEPORTIVA EN TROMPETEROS

NIÑOS INDÍGENAS DISFRUTAN DE CLINICA DEPORTIVA EN TROMPETEROS

220 niños de 7 comunidades nativas de la Amazonía disfrutan el fútbol en clínica deportiva Pluspetrol realizó una Clínica Deportiva en Trompeteros (Loreto), con la dirección técnica de la Academia Cantolao.

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Shuar headhunting traditions stretch back at least to the 16th century, but most of our knowledge of Shuar head-taking dates to the late 19th century, when shrunken heads were traditionally created as a part of complex cultural rituals that harnessed the awesome power of a Shuar person's soul after death.  These heads were not 'war trophies' in the usual sense of the word, because the Shuar and Achuar people who took heads lived, for the most part, in peace with one another, and they did not value the physical head so much as the power that resided within it.  Heads were not taken in warfare.  Instead, tribal raids were organized specifically to take heads, or 'tsantsas', because tsantas were powerful things, and a man who possessed tsantsas was a powerful man.  To this extent, for the Shuar, taking heads was a socially-acceptable form of violence. After a successful raid, great feasts were held to welcome the head-takers home.  These were the most important celebrations in the year, and through them the power residing in the tsantsas was transferred to the women in the family, ensuring plentiful food production for the household.  Three celebratory feasts were held in total, over a period of several years, but after these celebrations the tsantsas had little public value because – unlike the traders who bought them – the Shuar were not interested in the head itself once the power of the soul had been successfully transferred to the captor's group.  Some Shuar kept their tsantas as keepsakes, while others discarded them or sold them to travellers and settlers.  In fact, it was not because they were sacred that the Shuar did not display them – just the opposite, it was because they were insignificant, like an envelope that once contained an important letter.

Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

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As trade with foreigners escalated, however, and the 'guns for heads' business became established, the spiritual significance of taking a person's head – the need to secure the victim's avenging soul and harness its power among the living – dwindled, and shrinking heads often became simply about making trade products.  Shrinking heads was no longer about the circulation of power, it was about the accumulation of goods.  Tsantsas lost their spiritual power and became commercial products; now some Shuar simply murdered people in order to sell their heads.  In this way, Europeans and Americans helped to create the indiscriminate, bloodthirsty headhunters they expected to find.  As demand grew, so the Shuar headhunters became less discriminatory.  Historically, only men's heads had been taken, because only men possessed the avenging soul that could be trapped inside the head, but now the Shuar began to take the heads of women and children for trade, even they had no ritual significance.

So women's heads and children's heads, severed by European knives, ended up on the streets of South American towns and cities to be sold as souvenirs. They were little more than a kind of macabre tourist art for travellers, who no doubt thought they were buying authentic tsantsas from a land of primitive warriors rather than a shrunken head made for market.  Even less authentic were the heads of settlers and South Americans who had nothing to do with headhunters, who had probably lived in cities all their lives, but who ended up under a taxidermist's knife so that their heads could be shrunk for sale too. Taxidermists were often responsible for 'fake' tsantsas, and knowing that this work would make them a little extra money on the side, they made arrangements with someone at the local hospital morgue to supply their 'raw materials'.  These were the unclaimed dead, the poor and the dispossessed, who fell victim to a European and American desire for exotic curiosities.

Such was the demand for shrunken heads that when no human corpses were available, opportunists turned their hand to shrinking monkey and sloth heads which, once reduced in size and 'remodelled', often fooled the curio-hunters.  As the American engineer and traveller Franz Up de Graff noted, 'In Panama, where tourists have created a brisk demand for these uncouth curios, heads, either human or monkey, are made to order or sold for $25.00 each.'  Fake heads were made from goatskin, wood, resin or rubber.  Even though laws were brought in forbidding the trade in tsantsas, many were still being sold surreptitiously to tourists during the mid-20th century.

All this means that the majority of Shuar shrunken heads in museum collections may, in fact, be fake.  Many of them are not human at all, and a number of those that are human have little to do with the Shuar, making the notion of the timeless Shuar headhunter even more of a Euro-American construction.  Visitors may see these exhibits and think of them as the gruesome trophies of an untouched savage people, when what they are actually seeing are the gruesome trophies of a western fascination with the idea of an untouched savage people.

 - Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

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Celebran el Día de las Lenguas Originarias con exhibición de alfabetos oficiales

Celebran el Día de las Lenguas Originarias con exhibición de alfabetos oficiales

► Se mostrarán las grafías usadas por 40 pueblos indígenas, como el nahua y el iskonawa — En Perú se han identificado hasta 48 lenguas, la más reciente es la asheninka “Nu tapibis tsaiki dawanatsai, natia nu tapi nukutsai nahua” es una expresión que significa “Aprendimos a leer en castellano, ahora aprendemos a leer en nahua” y ha sido escrita utilizando las grafías del nahua, una lengua hablada…

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The Fruit of the Spirit (ACHUAR-SHIWIAR: Bible NT)

The Fruit of the Spirit (ACHUAR-SHIWIAR: Bible NT)

ACHUAR-SHIWIAR: Bible NT

Galatians (Gálatas) 5:22-23

22 Antsu Yuse Wakani aintsu nintin piatkau asa, árak nereawa nunisang neremtikui. Yuse Wakani turamuringkia tu ainawai: Chikich ainau aneenitin, tura warastin, tura angkan pengker nintimratin, tura jaimiasar nintimtustin, tura chikich ainau wait anentratin, tura chikich ainau pengker awajsatin, tura ii timiauri miatrusrik umiktin,

23tura…

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