Relatives and supporters of the struggles of the forests,
favelas, quilombos
and spaces of resistance and struggle
throughout Abya Yala,
we are facing the moment of greatest threat
to our indigenous rights here in Brazil.
And it all directly involves the fateful Time Frame thesis.
The Time Frame is a thesis that proposes that we indigenous peoples
only have the right to the lands that were occupied
when the 1988 Federal Constitution was promulgated.
This thesis ignores all the communities that have been violently expelled
from their territories
since the invasion in 1500.
The Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, APIB,
has filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court
asking that law 14.701,
the Time Frame law,
be declared unconstitutional,
that it be definitively suspended.
As a result,
the Supreme Court proposed a series of
conciliation meetings to discuss the issue.
However, of the 24 seats at the table,
only 6 would be occupied by APIB.
A major disadvantage for the indigenous movement,
but it doesn't stop there.
The majority of indigenous peoples were not even consulted
about the conditions of this conciliation.
This puts us in a hierarchical position,
in which they determine our needs.
After APIB left the conciliation table
due to all the constraints imposed by the table,
the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples was ordered
to sit at the table to take the place of APIB,
and in the place of all the ethnic organizations of indigenous peoples,
to conciliate our rights.
But at no point
did the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples hesitate
to oppose the order of the Supreme Court
and the conciliation table.
This caused a huge split in the indigenous movement.
Given these situations,
we condemn the conduct of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples
in standing in the way of the self-determination of indigenous peoples
and their ethnic councils at the conciliation table.
We are in favor of demarcation without conciliation.
There is no way of reducing environmental impacts
and the climate crisis
without guaranteeing demarcations
because they preserve almost 90% of the territory.
We see a movement to confront this farce,
these conciliations.
In reality, they function as “pocket money”
due to the high volume of compensation paid
to the invaders who are killing us.
Our indigenous people are the ones who guarantee
the protection of the forests
and are on the frontline in the defense of Brazil's biomes.
Even after all the arson attacks,
indigenous lands are considered to be the best preserved.
Even more than the environmental protection areas themselves, the APAs.
In fact, all APAs and all forest areas
should be transformed into indigenous lands.
Demarcation now!
Because this protects the forest
and the health of the entire population.
Demarcation now!
It's a solution to climate-environmental collapse,
against those who kill the Earth
and the bodies that resist it.
For life and good living.