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  • Colombia, Macedonia, 2010. Agua final. <br />
Flotando en el río Amazonas se asoma el rostro de un hombre. Es niño, indígena tikuna y evangelista, y recibirá del cielo que lo abriga lo que su nuevo Dios promete; lo mismo que el Dios de su mitología indígena anuncia. Como Yuché, a este pequeño lo espera la vida eterna; al desaparecer su cuerpo, la selva amazónica guardará su espíritu y la vida, entonces, continuará su curso hasta que el comportamiento humano y las leyes naturales lo permitan. <br />
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Final water. <br />
Floating in the Amazon river the face of a man is shown.  He is young, an indigenous Tikuna and evangelist, and he will receive from heaven what his new God promises; just like the saying of the God of indigenous mythology.  As Yuché, it is eternal life; when his body disappears, the Amazonian forest will keep his spirit alive, his body will continue on this journey whilst human behaviour and natural laws allow it.
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  • The Kichwas of the Napo River<br />
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The Kichwas of San Pedro Sumino are very shy and reserved people. They are also one of the original tribes of the Ecuadorean jungle. This indigenous community lives fairly isolated from big cities.  A lot of their houses can only be reached by canoe making it hard for most to reach the roads and sell their products in the markets.  They survive in tight communities where helping the other is not an option but a philosophy of life. They receive basic or no assistance from the outside, having to work very hard together to make ends meet.  Still, they live without creating a great impact on their environment.  In what they call mingas, the Kichwas harvest, make canoes, fish, hunt, cook and play together. They don’t like anyone in their community to be left behind.  The Kichwas prosper together. With modernity, some things have changed, but the basic principles of living in a community have remained the same.  Kids wear jeans and listen to reggeton but they still help the family with all the daily chores.  They understand medicinal plants, can stand in a one-person canoe as they row up river and they deeply respect their elders. They know legends of rivers and boas and hold a tight relationship with nature, their home. <br />
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A man heads down the Napo River on a fishing trip near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   San Pedro is a Kichwa (indigenous) community located on the Napo River.   Many of the houses located along the river can only be reached by canoe and the residents live in isolation.   The people hunt, grow crops, such as corn and yuca, and fish in the Napo river.
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  • People play soccer in San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   San Pedro is a Quichua (indigenous) community located on the Napo River.   Many of the houses located along the river can only be reached by canoe and the residents live in isolation.   The people hunt, grow crops, such as corn and yuca, and fish in the Napo river.
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  • A boy holds a doll in San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   San Pedro is a Quichua (indigenous) community located on the Napo River.   Many of the houses located along the river can only be reached by canoe and the residents live in isolation.   The people hunt, grow crops, such as corn and yuca, and fish in the Napo river.
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  • An old woman and a girl return to their house near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   San Pedro is a Quichua (indigenous) community located on the Napo River.   Many of the houses located along the river can only be reached by canoe and the residents live in isolation.   The people hunt, grow crops, such as corn and yuca, and fish in the Napo river.
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  • Cirilo Grefa plays with paper boats at his home in San Pedro Sumino.
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  • A butcher cuts up meat to sell at the weekly market in San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   Meet is consumed only a few days a week in most Kichwa families because of its cost.
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  • A covered canoe heads down the Napo River near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.
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  • Kichwa kids play and bathe in the Napo river .
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  • A family cleans up the nets after fishing at night in the Napo River near the community of San Pedro Sumino.  The Napo River is in the Ecuadorean jungle and feeds into the Amazon. The original tribes who have inhabited these lands are still here, the Kichwas. They live off their land and the river, their community is very tight and they all work for the common good.
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  • Colombia, Amazonas, 2010.El baño de Yuché. <br />
Yuché, Dios de la comunidad Tikuna, ha envejecido y, mirándose en el agua, se da cuenta de que se acerca la muerte. Así comienza el mito aborigen. En la foto, Jesús Rodríguez enjuaga su rostro joven en el Río Amazonas, pero no logra borrar la marca del huito que los tikunas llevan a su cuerpo después de extraer la pintura del fruto selvático. Por esto los conocen como “pieles negras”. <br />
Yuché bath. <br />
Yuché,  Tikuna’s God of community, has aged and looking in the water,  realizes that death is approaching. So begins the Aboriginal myth. In the photo, Jesus Rodriguez rinses his young face in the Amazon River, but he does not manage to erase the mark of ‘huito’ that tikunas takes to their body after extracting the painting of the sylvan fruit.  This is why they are known as “black skins”. <br />
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ENSAYO: UN FRÁGIL TESORO , AMAZONAS. / AMAZON FRAGIL TREASURE<br />
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Amanece. Aves y reptiles de todas las especies comienzan a cantar. El río está tibio y hace calor. El Amazonas, que nunca deja de correr, ahora cobra vida con la llegada del día. Mujeres y hombres se acercan a su orilla. Lavan, comparten, pescan, trabajan, aman y, en algunos casos, también trafican en ésta, el área con mayor biodiversidad del mundo, y el río más caudaloso y extenso. En sus puertos, la Latinoamérica amazónica mezcla sus culturas e intercambia productos, entre ellos, los que la convierten en zona de peligro: cocaína y armas también encuentran refugio en la espesura de la selva. Los tikuna son los habitantes de estas tierras ardientes, donde las altas temperaturas casi sobre el nivel del mar desafían a la raza más fuerte. Conquistados por los españoles estos indígenas resistieron hasta la masacre. Hoy solo quedan 27 mil tikunas repartidos en tres países: Colombia, Perú y Brasil. En las fotografías, se retrata la cotidianidad del tikuna colombiano que, a quinientos años de su colonización, conserva poco de su auténtica
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  • Thalia Ashanga bathes in the river while one of her aunts washes clothes.
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  • A girl combes her grandmother's hair near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.
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  • A family cruises along the Napo near the community of San Pedro Sumino. The river is their main source of transportation back to their home.
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  • An older woman and a child start a fire near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.    Her children have left, she lives with her granddaughter. At night they both go to a neighbors house where they get fed.
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  • Teenagers play pool during the weekly market in the center of San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   This part of town livens up once a week and then dies during the rest of it.  The bars are only open on market days.
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  • The men of the community haul a canoe out to the river to test it, after making it from scratch. This canoe will be used to transport the people of the community up and down the river without having to pay much for this service.
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  • Three Kichwa boys play cards while they fish at night in the Napo River near the community of San Pedro Sumino.   They caught five carachamas (a type of fish) and one pirhana.
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  • A girl feeds a baby chica de yuca, a drink made of fermented yuca in San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.  The “chicha,” a beverage made out of yuca and offered at all times of the day.  To not accept it when offered is an insult to Kichwas.  When you first enter their house, chicha is like a strong handshake.  It  is a covenant, allowing  strangers to build a trusting friendship.
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  • A kid holds the string attached to his pet beattle in a preschool in the community of San Pedro Sumino. Kids in this preschool, the kids get breakfast and lunch, which helps with the families economies.
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  • A woman serves up Yuca, a root eaten by the Kichwa people, both in drink form or cooked. The drink is called “chicha,” a beverage offered at all times of the day.  To not accept it when offered is an insult to Kichwas.  When you first enter their house, chicha is like a strong handshake.  It  is a covenant, allowing  strangers to build a trusting friendship.
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  • A boy and his niece hang out in a room near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.  Usually older kids take care of the younger ones. Many of the houses have family and extended family living in it.
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  • Blanca Ashanga harvests corn in a community field. All the community works in what they call a "Minga" where everyone contributes and harvest for the community.  The proceeds of selling the corn will be used for services in the community.
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  • Colombia, Macedonia, 2010. Baile de disfraces. <br />
Los trajes tradicionales son hoy el atuendo de trabajo de las comunidades tikunas. Este grupo de mujeres espera la llegada de los turistas para vender la demostración de unos de sus bailes típicos alrededor de la fertilidad. Las mayores, aprendieron los cantos y movimientos como herencia de una cultura milenaria; las niñas lo reciben como mecanismo de inserción en la actividad económica de la región donde hoy prima el turismo. En las tareas del hogar, los nativos incluyen la fabricación de artesanías como medio de sustento.<br />
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Dance of disguises. <br />
Traditional costumes are today the work attire of the Tikunas.  This group of women await the arrival of tourists, to sell tickets for their performance of one of their typical dances about the fertility. The eldest learned the songs and movements as part of their inheritance from a millennium of culture; girls now are taught it as a way to be included in the economic activity of the region where today tourism prevails.  Household tasks now include the manufacture of handicrafts for sale as a means of livelihood.
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  • Lorena Grefa washes her family clothes. In the Kichwa families all the kids help out, be it harvesting, fishing or taking care of the younger kids. Lorena lives with his parents and her little baby while her husband comes back from enlisting in the military services for two years.
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  • The Grefa kids at their home in San Pedro Sumino. The middle kid is a cousin who has moved in with the Grefas. He enjoys reading to his younger cousin during a rainy evening.
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  • An old woman stands by the Napo River near San Pedro Sumino in August of 2009.   Her children have left, she lives with her granddaughter. At night they both go to a neighbors house where they get fed.
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  • Gregorio Grefa makes a balsa canoe from scratch for his brother in law in the community of San Pedro Sumino. Being one of the only people to own a chainsaw in the community, Gregorio gets called for a lot of work.  He said the community helped him build his house, for which he is just paying back the favor to everyone else.
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  • Victoria Kubirinketu, an Ashaninka woman, walks back to her village after collecting bananas and a banana flower (in her hands). <br />
With encroachment from settlers and speculators, and after a devastating war against Shining Path rebels a decade ago, the indigenous Ashaninkas’ hold is precarious. And they are now facing a new peril, the proposed 2,200-megawatt Pakitzapango hydroelectric dam, which would flood much of the Ene River valley. The project is part of a proposal for as many as five dams that under a 2010 energy agreement would generate more than 6,500 megawatts, primarily for export to neighboring Brazil. The dams would displace thousands of people in the process. April 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Girls in front of Tsiquiereni village at the shores of Ene River. In the mountains background is the area of Pakitzapango, where Pakitzapango dam is planned. It would affect the livelihood of thousands of Ashaninka indigenous, who live in primitive conditions, with no money, and no other means of making a living other than living in the jungle. April 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Indigenous woman on fire heated a container of corn chicha in Chincheros, Cuzco, Saturday, June 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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  • Colombia, Leticia, 2010. Vida nueva. <br />
Plaza de mercado en Leticia. Hasta aquí llegan las más diversas y exóticas cosechas de la selva amazónica: arazá, yuca, plátano, tomate, ajíes de distintas variedades, cilantro, cebolla. La tierra, el agua y la mujer indígena son muestra de la enorme fertilidad característica de la región. Esta adolescente trabaja junto a su bebé, aún en brazos, en la plaza que sirve para distribuir desde alimentos hasta teléfonos celulares, artículos de hogar, maquinaria, ropa.<br />
New life. <br />
Leticia Market square. Here the diverse and exotic harvests arrive from the Amazonian forest: arazá, yucca, banana, tomato, peppers of different varieties, coriander, and onion. The land, water and the indigenous woman are sample of the enormous fertility which characterizes the region. This teenager works together with her baby, still in arms, in the square that trades in a range of goods; foods to cellular telephones, household articles, machinery, and clothes.
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  • Colombia, Puerto Nariño, 2010. El vaso. <br />
Medio sumergidas en el río las mujeres realizan sus labores cotidianas. Allí, además del lavado de la ropa, ellas aprenden y enseñan los saberes de la vida; de madre a hija, en un sencillo bote, se transfieren los valores y la cultura indígena. La niña caminó durante varios cientos de metros desde su hogar hasta el río para llevarle a su madre un vaso de agua fresca y potable. The glass. <br />
Half submerged in the river the women undertake their daily work.  There, besides the washing of the clothes, they learn and teach each other about life’s lessons; from mother to daughter, in a simple fashion, the values and the indigenous culture are transferred.  The Girls walked during several hundred meters from their home to the river to bring to their mothers a fresh glass of water.
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  • A farm in Caspana, an oasis in Atacama Desert, northern Chile, January 2009. Caspana is one of the very few places in the desert where villagers - descendants of the Atacameños indigenous group - protected their rights to clean unpolluted waters of Caspana river (a tributary of Loa river) for their agriculture against the cities and mining companies on their quest for water.
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  • Ana Anza, 65, farms garlic in Caspana, an oasis in Atacama Desert, northern Chile, January 2009. Caspana is one of the very few places in the desert where villagers - descendants of the Atacameños indigenous group - protected their rights to clean unpolluted waters of Caspana river (a tributary of Loa river) for their agriculture against the cities and mining companies on their quest for water.
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  • The struggle for territory in Guatemala has serious implied risks for the indigenous population. Many of them have had to leave their homes and even their country in order to remain safe.
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  • Loa River, Atacama desert, Chile. November 2009. The Loa River goes through the core of Atacama Desert. For thousand year it was inhabited by Atacameños indigenous culture, but since the starting of mining operations the struggle for water began. Water is captured from the river heads, lakes have been dried up, highly toxic pollution from mining has killed life in a big portion of the river resulting in entire communities leaving their ancestral farming and grassing lands, abandoning what used to be an oasis of life in the driest desert on Earth.
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  • "In defiance of patriarchal political orders, many indigenous women have given another meaning to life, we have decided not to have loyalty to this violent approach. This has led us to meet each other to identify alternatives and reconstitute new references for life relationships. " Lolita Chavez
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  • "The energies of medicinal plants have accompanied our daily struggle for the defence of the body, land and territory. With them, we heal the wounds and pain that we have historically experienced as indigenous women." Collective Actors of Change
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  • A farm in Caspana, an oasis in Atacama Desert, northern Chile, January 2009. Caspana is one of the very few places in the desert where villagers - descendants of the Atacameños indigenous group - protected their rights to clean unpolluted waters of Caspana river (a tributary of Loa river) for their agriculture against the cities and mining companies on their quest for water.
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  • Colombia, Leticia, 2010. Cargador. <br />
Amazonas está apenas a 90 metros sobre el nivel del mar. No hay viento ni sombra. Para sobrevivir, algunos indígenas transportan a pie las pesadas mercancías que llegaron por el río. Hasta 80 kilos pueden alcanzar estos racimos de plátano, verdura básica de la alimentación lugareña que, antes de llegar a la cocina, se pasean por húmedos, polvorientos y calurosos paisajes.<br />
. Shipper. <br />
Amazon is only 90 meters above sea-level. There is no wind nor shade. In order to survive, some of the indigenous people transport their heavy merchandise to the river by foot.  These bunches of bananas can reach up to 80 kilos,  they are the basic vegetable of the village, which before arriving at the kitchen, have to be walked through humid, dusty and warm landscapes.
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  • Colombia, Amazonas, Macedonia, 2010. Macedonia. <br />
Macedonia es un diminuto poblado indígena clavado en la selva amazónica colombiana. Como el agua también fluye la vida de los niños que crecen a orillas del río más caudaloso y largo del mundo. Un misionero fundó este pueblo hace poco menos de cincuenta años; hoy día todos sus habitantes viven la doctrina evangelista que deformó sus tradicionales prácticas culturales. <br />
Macedonia is a tiny indigenous town in the Colombian amazonian forest. As the water flows it also shapes the lives of the children growing up along the shore of the most mighty and longest river in the world.  A missionary founded this town around fifty years ago; today all inhabitants live the evangelist doctrine that replaced their traditional cultural practices.
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  • Loa River, Atacama desert, Chile. November 2009. The Loa River goes through the core of Atacama Desert. For thousand year it was inhabited by Atacameños indigenous culture, but since the starting of mining operations the struggle for water began. Water is captured from the river heads, lakes have been dried up, highly toxic pollution from mining has killed life in a big portion of the river resulting in entire communities leaving their ancestral farming and grassing lands, abandoning what used to be an oasis of life in the driest desert on Earth.
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