Akuntsu (Full Documentary)

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[Music] [Music] [Music] - on a very special journey a journey which truly moves you I'm walking with the grandma a grandmother who has no grandchildren they'd been shocked I don't abuse they destroyed her life her land she is the goddess the queen the most important woman in a group of survivors from the Ocwen Sioux ethnic group in the state of Rondonia we've traveled we've come thousands of kilometers to the heart of Rondonia a Brazilian stage which used to be filled with trees and today is filled with soybeans and cats [Music] this woman knows the secrets of the jungle and is going to accompany us throughout the program she's part of this ethnic group and she is charged with keeping the fire always lifts her grandchildren will not be able to see a better world Baku and Sue are endangered the end of the world on a television program [Music] the Arkansas home land is leaking away like water into a boat about to sink these Indians are caught in the sights of the white man for whom everything seems to be not enough here in Rio every day the newspaper headlines in this heart-rending area Brazil read as if they had been written several centuries ago the papers are printed with human blood and on their front pages we find events which we thought had been eradicated forever reported as if they were completely normal [Music] import devayne Rondonia scandal we find the headquarters of a courageous newspaper which is four years born witness to the massacre Oh angel started to meet the indignant has historically been considered a fierce creature an animal and a hindrance to development which in rondônia is actually the disorganized occupation of territory which has been going on here for many years now and which in reality prevents the development claimed by those in power because in reality this is a model designed exclusively for the production of soybeans and livestock which benefits only the great landholders disorder the Pequod's he saw a beneficial grants present the heirs since 1956 the state of Rondonia has owed its name to this man Marshall rendang wholehearted defender and champion of the Indians in the past in supposedly more inhumane times today his respectful message is diluted in the pool of ambitions and avarice of those who rule this amazon territory these human beings seem not to exist to count for those who govern Rondonia the akan Sioux tribe is made up of just six survivors and it is around them that this film is centered this hyper realistic portrait seeks to return to these people their dignity which is as fragile as bohemian Risto the grandmother of the group carries on in spite of everything seeking her treasure the sacred dye of the seeds of you do Coupland although condemned to extinction via con su surrender to beauty to their customs to their ancestral power they dye their hair the color of blood with this jungle cosmetic just as their ancestors did here for centuries long before the arrival of their murderers poignant like [Music] toddlers issues group all of these groups of humans are subjected to economic pressure this G data main key and this pressure takes the form of ranches the large soybean plantations which are beginning to arrive and the removal of the wood which is always the first step the start of all the destruction is exploiting the woods and later the access to the large ranches and other aspects in which the state takes part such as the construction of roads hydroelectric projects all of this is a part of the process which we call development is moving and which involves these people so here in this place we have almost all of the threats I have mentioned we have the woods the ranches and these Indians are threatened and now the soybeans are coming in this is therefore a process which poses a threat to them in every way Rondonia is 240,000 square kilometers represent three percent of Brazil's territory an area equal to approximately half that of Spain but it appears that this territory is million and a half inhabitants do not wish to share it with the natives the jungle is losing ground and with it its direct descendants the people of the jungle those who thousands of years ago inherited this green treasure which today they will miss captives [Music] rarely do the at mizzou cross the frontier [Music] it's almost impossible to see them out in the open exposed outside their beloved jungle but today our camera has captured one of these dangerous forays at the very gates of their house where until just one year ago the trees were as tall as cathedrals today they're graced thousands of cattle the icons who defend themselves with words and arrows from a mammoth process bearing down upon them to squash them like ants [Music] these images are just a symbol an exclusive document [Music] a handful of people outraged at the very gates of hell [Music] these two families have less and less territory two adult males and four women live beneath the same roof and the same threat where they feel most safe and at home is in the lap of their mother the jungle they cannot or should not leave this leafy refuge 26 thousand hectares surrounded by an 81 km/h if they want to stay alive [Music] here they are still the Kings monarchs held captive in a kingdom in danger of extinction of a glorious era and whose garden human nature mixes with the rest of the animal kingdom as equals [Music] [Music] on this occasion Coney boo has gone out to hunt with his two wives and their daughter the hummingbirds are happy to see me or one more day the jungle stirs with their passing and it's spirits prepare themselves for the festival of life where they dream everyone drinks water is a communal treasure and here the fate of man and animal is written with the same ink [Music] balance has been the key to coexistence for centuries and today the Ocwen sioux indians are at a disadvantage the women never hunt but in the absence of men moba con bears the bows and MoBay the arrows with little success there can be no doubt that these Amazons waste their munitions weapons they have had to take off only recently forced by the attacks of the white man who have left them without male hunters they will undoubtedly learn but we do not know if they will have the time they need because others want to hunt these Indians to steal their land and cut down their trees while trying to shoot the bow gets away from this young woman these images are both moving and extremely sad [Music] once again it is Khun EBU who keeps the expedition going in the waters of this stream there is plenty of protein to feed everyone [Music] [Music] but they have to get at it and this is not a technique that can be learned overnight it takes patience and wisdom to survive in Amazonia [Applause] 800 kilometers away the government of Rondonia simply ignores the existence of these remote peoples on the walls of the headquarters we find an artistic representation of the future that would await them if it were up to the governor it has taken Ibaka so several days to agree to our interview but once we start he's in his element convinced of the evils of a respectful and just Indian policy so you think that in rondônia there are no isolated Indians no I can't guarantee that we don't as governor I don't know whether we have unknown tribes all of the Indians living in rondônia our tribes which have been recognized and what happens is that in many places they say that they are Indians but in truth there are people who came here a long time ago from other countries such as Bolivia occupy the territory and are treated as if they were Indians and have their space preserved by laws suddenly they want to protect that area they go and get half a dozen Indians from another indigenous area and bring them here to try to hinder development this has happened here in the past that happened why because their interests are the larger the amount of native land the more protected territory there will be therefore if there are any unknown tribes here it's not that they have come by themselves it's because someone took them from someplace else and put them here to create another indigenous area but that you have water via kikyo i need you but the oldest man in the village does not stand alone in the face of danger his energy is in fed it's in the air in the trees in nature itself from which he takes it and shares it out amongst his loved ones Kunie wu does not know the origins of the catastrophe threatening his people the Ocwen sioux nation once numbered in the thousands just six of which still hold out today [Music] all of them are america they are the entire world and the governor is either ignorant or evil I am Satan for Monsieur nice there is information about eleven places in the state of Rondonia where there may still live unknown tribes here we have small groups of humans we have the ikutsu with six people can we the Conaway with three people you think you mean two of whom recently died under circumstances which were at the very least mysterious in which we are trying to uncover but are finding it very difficult and an Indian who we call the Indian of the whole who is just a few kilometers away some fifteen or twenty and he is the last survivor of a national group but if you aint you meet you near it's quite dramatic all of these people have been held captive in a small piece of jungle map I won't yell the Brazilian government gave us the power and law as well which was an extremely important piece of the puzzle so that we can close this reserve to the rest of the world and try to approach these people try what are we going to do do what peaceful contact has already been made with them what are we gonna do what future awaits these people there's little future little can be done the only thing that we mean to do is to make life less difficult for these people which man was you see such mystery [Music] in the native land along the already River another man wanders disoriented and on the defensive the Indian of the whole he belongs to a different tribe from the upland Sulu of which we have only these two photographs given to us by the National Indian foundation the section of the Ministry of Justice that seeks to protect him alena the Buraku is the Indian of the Hawks is the only one who may still exist portals because all the others have died in ptosis chaos upon to survive he digs holes three metres deep more or less a metre and a half square [Music] he puts extremely sharp 2 metre spears those metals which he covers and if you're walking along and fall in just imagine you fell into a trap like that ptosis in the jungle where he lives there are tons of that doesn't when we managed to reach his home he wasn't there anymore yeah and there was a huge hole some three meters deep but without spears no island sir so we imagined that this must be some kind of security system which he uses for his own protection we believe he's still alive because up till now from the very first day he's always run away he refuses to make contact and I would do the same if I arrived home killed my entire family everyone around me I would try to protect myself without letting myself be seen and that's what he does ten years ago the National Indian foundations Department of unknown tribes set up in the area they have banned everyone from our world from passing through here to protect these Indians who are condemned to death so the most des photos yes every day tell me we no longer have the will to live what are we going to live for we want to die we want to go into the jungle take the poison root and commit suicide and only the women remain do the things that the man had always done the Indians we have here are the remnants of their history the only alternative to collective suicide was trust and since 1995 they have surrendered to it since then these distrustful Indians have come to know the kinder side of the white man's world this operation is staffed by brave and caring men and women who develop their lives to those who are weaker under the leadership of Marcy for later and directed by Sidney pezuela Amelia the front of contact nurse knows the medical history of each of the natives so we asked her about the health of who drew the old woman of the group a Saudi ballad you fail she's got an iron Constitution because if she actually gets sick it's because the white man has brought the illness here if she has some pain it's a natural result of her age rheumatism joint pain but if she gets sick it's because of the illnesses that come from the outside because none of those here would get sick if people didn't bring in the illness the flu could killed them all wiped them out because this is a tribe which is virtually extinct only this small part remains and if no contact had been made with them today there would be none left another frightened and hunted person enters our story with a purposeful stride she comes to his door neighbors and days gone by they were her enemies but today they are blood brothers comrades in hardship and misfortune she is determined duel at the NOI Indian who has had a son by the man whose hand she holds years ago before the white man colonized Rondonia jungle the con Oh ay and the equinsu would not even stand each other but today they form an alliance against their common outside enemy who da is Tetum undos brother the third and last of a tribe that was contacted in 1994 prior to the Auckland Zoo despite their clothing they still preserve their Indian soul wounded but intact the ritual moves forward and the hakuna to display their sharp weapons the essence of their hunter souls before the eyes of their neighbors like excited hosts we now hear the unceasing refined melody of the Matadors flutes from which they are consumed or not part while they still live [Music] beating time with chestnuts tied to the knee the music and dance traumatized the him to humanity so enjoyed by this mother and her son inevitable melancholy for the first peoples of America for whom our development has left no escape who do and her son who became prepare for the festival of the senses everything is ready for them to fly high to start this 80 plus year old woman removes the jewelry which pierces her nose so that she can sniff more with the help of a read Booga piya lifts a vegetable drug to the nostrils of her husband this nut from the mg Co or your poetry is used on few occasions and is highly hallucinogenic this is a social drug everyone takes part in its consumption but without frivolities our camera has captured the seriousness of their faces safely United this morning they seek out another dimension another sensory territory to make them less vulnerable in the face of the cruel reality which grips them the drug takes effect immediately and loosens the mind and the tongue of this wounded woman 15 years ago when she returned home from hunting with her brother she found their village filled with corpses dozens of gonna--we had been murdered by the timber men the exorcism begins dear amando is going to clean the bad blood of each and every one of those present this ritual is one of the most legally suggestive anthropological documents we have ever seen before disaster game this woman was her peoples Shaymin the transmitter of an electrical energy all of the Amazon tribes take from the earth today after years of silence she acts and works for her friends once her enemies fiyaquun' sue one by one she moves over their vital organs to repair them to make them strong to face what is bearing down upon them although it may seem strange to us this is pure culture a sacred act in the religious temple of the jungles along the oume de river [Music] takes part in the ritual with his mother from his point of view he's more interested in the magic in the touch of this hallucinating grandma the wasted land hurts this morning more than ever and these people cry for it like good children for their mother [Music] [Music] together with the state of Baja Rondonia located in the northern part of the country is the bloodiest wound in all Amazonia the savage deforestation of recent years is endangering that ecological equilibrium about which politicians talk so much and do so little 5 million cows have been brought onto native land and with them the guile of the landowners who obstruct the work of human rights defenders with impunity on a daily basis even with us as indigenous kiyotaka many indigenous areas which were created in rondônia are not really native many Bolivians and people from other countries we're put here solely to preserve the jungle you can see it for yourself if the reserve has already been created you we're not going to question now what I can assure you of is and I don't know of any region in the state of Rondonia no place where there is a native reserve where ranchers are destroying bridges and roads to prevent the National Indian Foundation from reach the government of Rondonia tells us that they know nothing of the boycott of the great ranches but the state's Federal Police frequently receive complaints from members of the National Indian foundation threats demolished bridges and the dramatic everyday existence of those who defend the law we've already had two sudden deaths which to this day have not been explained and which coincided with visits and access by people not authorized to be there including up north to work to himself when he went with other people and well when these deaths took place it was very difficult for us to get the Indians out because the road was impassable you know what's more we couldn't get out by cars because the gates of the reserve were blocked gates which incidentally are in an area delineated by law and this is what forced the nurse and one of our assistants to carry the dying Indians on a stretcher for 13 kilometers in the middle of the night is fucking over that meows at the main sedimentary Acosta one name has come up in the conversation with a police captain in this meeting recorded in the city of Vienna on dinner Dorothy owner of 35 ranches who has been tried several times for Indian massacres both on and off his property and whose privileged connections have helped him to dodge prison [Music] in this recent report we read what many other times before has been the precursor to murder words addressed to a National Indian Foundation worker in a menacing tone you will see what will happen I know they noted wanted a lot of thing what does that name mean to you very bad too much he is one of the most evil landowners in the state of rondônia he kills and nobody says anything hey soon this is a serious problem but people don't dare speak out there have already been people who have had to go who were forced to leave yes because if you talk you can't live in this place his gunmen won't give you a moment's rest until you go Los Blancos the whites the powerful the politicians the ranch owners they prefer to see these poor human beings human beings like you and me they prefer to see them dead so they can put livestock in their place and that's the honest truth yes the honest and all of this is in the name of progress but for us it's a giant step backwards for mankind meanwhile in their world in the heart of a peaceful bubble of serenity and quality of life vaya con su rest inside their toys these two large houses made from acai and in ashab palms like close to their papaya fields surrounded by their mythical universe [Music] [Music] in one of the houses live elugu and her son go buggy view of you boy we gathered people they talk and swing in their hammocks preparing to rest now sheltered from the Blazing Sun but as the light of justice that they urgently need the other HUD located opposite is the house of Khun EBU his two wives Dae and bravia and his daughters in a day here they also observed the siesta that universal restorative ritual which some believed have been patented by Spain these people's love of birds is driving them crazy their toucan is happy and for him a siesta is a human thing hushing ham is a matter of skill the youngest member of the family closes his beak so as not to break the sweet spell of the house the Flutey sound of the mutt a day transports us under this roof one Breeze in culture humanity and above all peace how is it possible for the government responsible for a civilized country like Brazil to permit these people to be killed with impunity and how is it possible that in a 21st century the rest of the international community looks the other way [Music] [Music] [Laughter] import to venue Rondonia SCAP Atal we visit the remains of an unfinished conflict locomotives rusty and ruined railroad cars from a railway that was designed to conquer new horizons and deflower the jungle the powerful nature of the Amazon did not really collaborate however and violently defended itself the Madera memoria railroad line is a clear example of the blood-soaked historic attempt to conquer southern Amazonian two countries Bolivia and Brazil reached an agreement one believe you sought a land route to the Atlantic and Brazil sought the mineral wealth of its neighboring country so Bolivia between the two they came up with the idea for a train which would run the length of the Madera River kilometres and kilometres of jungle thousands of people died defeated by malaria nature took its revenge on man in this occasion however and despite the fact that the driving force boy this name marshal Ron done terrible things are still going on in rondônia now in the 21st century and if you'll allow me the expression they're still getting away with murder in the struggle for land and I'm sure that marshal Ron done a pioneer in the defense of the natives this current history of modern Brazil contemporary Brazil I'm sure he wouldn't like it no Bible stuff it's not only the natives that have suffered the crimes of those who think themselves the owners of Rondonia the landless movement which we visited at the trade union in Vienna has paid for its principal demand with dozens of human lives what they see is a parcel of land on which to support their families well yeah Nava de agua it was August 9th 1955 at 3:00 in the morning they attacked killing right from the start the first person to fall was even a military police officer a good friend of ours who was killed by the policeman Salas so those who were in league with the bosses in order to justify it so that they could attack everyone the second victim was a minor 7 year old girl they said that it was a stray bullet but no way it was on purpose to incite us so then we would attack the police and that's how it all started from 3:00 in the morning to 6:00 that afternoon when the shooter [Music] the Columbia Massacre has still not been cleared up on denoted water today was detained as an instigator in connection with it but sent free once again for a lack of evidence rice cans of oil mightily and killed children all means that when they kill adult man women nobody has ever said anything until today [Music] a Contessa kena madrugada dugeun or v/o campamento face a con todos lados become a soul forgive boy oh my sacrilege Karoubi are dozens of landless families forgotten by a government that had promised them land and a future in rondônia had occupied a private ranch without thinking twice the landowners together with the police attacked the camp in a war without limits once again blood was spilt in Amazonia where death does not distinguish between peasants and natives because it is always sent by the same people it began first with the massacre of India I know a ranch where more than 400 Indians died it was the ranch of Antonio Jose one of the region's land arms who's now left here killed a great many England today we have Emir Londo as a senator of our Republic a man who now has his land because he defended on Tony of Jose before the law for the massacre of Indians Indians and prospectors the senator Amidala today a minister in the government of lula da silva that great example for brazilian society has a dark past connected with the colonization process in rondônia with annual growth of 20% this amazon state has gone from a reported 37,000 people in the 1950s to a million and a half today and of course the Indians who nobody counts are in the way so you say that poisonous sugar is used to kill the Indians of course I fart my my best way to get rid of them smaller Indians really like sweet things than wind equate the smokes alcohol I'll new and forbidden things for that but I'd be keen on David EFSA's myself hey God nice day and their extinction came in this way down full shape although we can't look into it fully my something because there are some who still use these minutes concrete automate spooky our gameplay yeah because it's not long ago there were a great many Indians here yes and the few that still remained if the government did not protect that they would disappear because a good part of their land is already pasture land [Music] the most amazing jungle on the planet is in a losing battle around dunya Swiss tight pastureland is taking over at an ecological and social cost we cannot afford to pay and the end of the world is coming for the natives who are today treated like pariah in their own home Brazil exports more and more beef from this area it sells this meat as green organic beef knowing what we know can we really see it essentially the world often treats us as if we were the ugly duckling yes they say that here we are deforesting everything but that's not the truth at present more than 75% of our jungle is still intact many of our products from Amazonia were taken abroad there are big many countries whose names I'm not going to list although the whole world knows who they are who don't produce anything and sell products from here saying they're from there some come as protectors of nature but they are the real wolves disguise and sheep's clothing telling everyone that we must take care of this while they are taking everything themselves from what I know of the governor he is a businessman who has close ties to the timber industry he receives a great deal of support from timber merchants also if you check you'll find that the secretary of the environment is a rancher so you can well imagine that the government is not very motivated by environmental matters granting only benefits the great landowners who have many resources therefore I wouldn't call it development because it only benefits a small number of people many of them don't even live in rondônia they have land here only to invest in property and they have no interest in bringing progress to the state of Rondonia in the payment areas in severe [Music] [Music] this documentary does not seek compassion but demands decency and justice recognition of these thousand-year-old cultures heirs to the land used by a feeling to do business these are people on the edge human beings protected at some risk by the National Indian foundations Department of unknown tribes for whom the end of the world appears to have come [Music] [Music] so that you can put this family photo in your most beloved album they have posed together Ocwen sooo gone away and this frightened almost invisible man the indian of the whole three tribes ten people who need us all [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Keywords: Akuntsu tribe, tribes, akuntsu, tribu akuntsu, brasilian tribes, brasilian people, indian, amazonia, amazonia river, amazonian tribes, amazonia documentary, akuntsu documentary, new Atlantis, new Atlantis tribes, full documentary, tribes full documentaries, Rondonia, Ethnic groups, Deforestation, Cattle farming, Polititians, Police, Rituals, Indian massacres, Corumbiara, massacre, Landless, movement, indian ritual, Akuntsu People, Documentary (TV Genre)

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Length: 56min 54sec (3414 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 28 2014

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Amazing Images. Good that this was captured on Film.

The Akuntsu were victims of a massacre perpetrated by Brazilian cattle ranchers in the 1980s and currently number just four individuals. [wiki]

The Docu from 2014 was talking about 6 still alive. Might be only a decade and they are gone.

👍︎︎ 5 👤︎︎ u/Indyaner 📅︎︎ Jun 12 2017 🗫︎ replies

brazil, the land of cultural oppression and lumber

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/bamfalamfa 📅︎︎ Jun 13 2017 🗫︎ replies