Book chapter
How Should an Indian Speak?: Amazonian Indians and the Symbolic Politics of Language in the Global Public Sphere
Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America, p.181
University of Texas Press
11/19/2013
DOI: 10.7560/791381.9
Abstract
These words are excerpted from a letter dated August 31, 1989, addressed “to all peoples of the earth” signed by the Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa (Ação pela Cidania 1990). In this open letter, and in various other speeches addressed to national and international audiences, Davi Yanomami—as he is known to outsiders—broadcast his plea for aid to his people’s cause. The background to this plea began in the late 1980s, when disaster struck the Yanomami: thousands of independent gold prospectors invaded their lands, bringing disease, ecological destruction, and violence. As a result of their appeal, the Yanomami, who number
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- How Should an Indian Speak?: Amazonian Indians and the Symbolic Politics of Language in the Global Public Sphere
- Creators
- Laura R. Graham
- Contributors
- Kay B Warren (Editor)Jean E. Jackson (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America, p.181
- DOI
- 10.7560/791381.9
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/19/2013
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983997196702771
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