News of our original communities 
Invitation for Hue Tripantu (New Year) I received a text that filled me with joy. You know, dear readers, I'm tied to the indigenous communities, not only from San Luis, but in Buenos Aires, La Pampa and Chaco, and others.
share a note Carlos Canuhé Germain, Community Lonko Rankulche Willy Kalkin, but also would like to briefly add an event that will happen as every year, on 24 June. Hue
Tripantu
Celebrate (New Year). I received a special invitation to attend Levucó
in La Pampa, where the remains of what was one of his greatest lonkos, Panguitruz Nuru (Mariano Rosas).
There is a night vigil, singing and music. At night, lights the ceremonial fire and in the morning, just off Antü, (the sun) make their prayers. And his invitation, complete with a special greeting: Amuchimai. It is a vigil outside and no casualties temperatures will turn off this fire is in their hearts forever. Would be a tribute to accompany them.
This weekend marks the second meeting of Native Cultures 12 and June 13, 2010, will be held in St. Louis the Second Meeting of Leaders of the Native Cultures, an occasion in which leaders across the country will advance in order to achieve national demands for different ethnicities.
This was announced by the head of Native Cultures Program, Pascuala Guaquinchay Carrizo, San Luis, Argentina, when referring to "an activity designed for the purpose of week will take place at the International Hotel Potrero de los Funes, having already confirmed their participation of representatives of various parts of Argentina, also hope to have the presence of references from Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay and Mexico. "
For the occasion, the objective is to move forward on actions to achieve the demand of all peoples, based on the documents signed during the first meeting (also held in San Luis, from April 29 to May 2 ), the official said, noting that "the intention is to be able to provide officials of the various jurisdictions in the country, the tools which we can advance in the recognition of rights for indigenous peoples. "
On that last, Carrizo Guaquinchay added that "apparently never learned how to do, so that the objective in these meetings is to achieve, through dialogue and debate, combine criteria to design the right tools."
Those interested in more information about the meeting, may, at the Native Cultures Program, whose offices are located at Avenida Illia and Junin, 2 ° Piso, also the phone from 02652 to 423479 / 423957 / 443464, via email : astica_huarpe@yahoo.com.ar or call mobile 02652-15503056.
Canhua Germain A comment about a publication El Diario La Arena, La Pampa, although lately some gray areas, is one of the few means of dealing with and concerned about indigenous issues.
say that since our return we decided back in 1983. And this editorial is confirmed. Not always agree, as when we want to foist the nickname "Mapuche." With the greatest respect for our brothers who decided to accept being called so, we are neither "Mapuche" simply because we are "Rankulche" and we are very proud of it.
With the support of the Province of San Luis, (And I add, the continued support of Governor Alberto Rodriguez Saa) have written a book that gets it done. "The footprint Rankülche Mansilla on," called to be a bestseller, not by the flight school that can be documented but for the truths that readers will find in it, true that the official story he was very careful to keep hidden and now see the light.
For example the track "land." There is clear what it says "The Arena", was not the triumph of civilization over barbarism, but the appropriation of land by and for the few at the expense of a Nation, a resident since time immemorial Center is today Argentina , not only to live in peace but part crucial, decisive, giving men and horses for the army of San Martin who liberated Chile and Peru also refused to sign a treaty with the English who through their territory wanted to recapture Buenos Aires thus ending the revolution of May. And yes, he signed with the United Provinces in South America, thus becoming the first sovereign nation to recognize the National Government.
Betrayed, like those early patriots, the payment you received was the dispossession of their territory, they obeyed orders from nominees from across the sea. This continued, so it goes, Argentina, and the mainland. Landlords, landowners, multinational corporations, as well as take everything that has any value today come from the little that remains. With the complicity of governments that are complicit by action or omission. The land currently possess good for nothing, just for an Indian could survive. Today is having some value. And there are the crows, who never failed to fly, ready to pounce on it. But now is not going to go well. We are organized. We have laws that take us long to approve, as the Constitution itself. Do not apply, but they are. Are operational. Justice gives us the reason.
We can not we must not, we will not budge. Because we are also united. Evil that despite many attempts they have made and will continue to do to divide us, we're still together. And we are becoming. And this is an irrefutable fact and irreversible. That allows us to say: "Enough, we do not provoke. Do not want to make the same mistake committed by their ancestors. We want to live. The current circumstances so require"
's not fair that the greed of a few, as happened in 1878 , many suffer the consequences. For those not attuned to the story, I do know that considering the treaties signed between our nation and the Argentinian state that we recognize as a sovereign nation, coupled with we were attacked suddenly being in effect a peace treaty, which the 1853 Constitution stated: "... maintain peaceful relations with the Indians ...", who appropriated our territory without our free consent" therefore illegally, would never capitulate, and finally, if Argentina is believed to be entitled to claim the territory of the Falkland Islands, on the grounds that he had at the time that the usurped England, that law should be to us Rankül nation about our country. Dialogue Coincidentally
Argentina claims to England, is the same as we come claiming the Argentine State. And for now get the same answer: Silence. Therefore, the potential usurpers, I say: Do not continue pulling the rope. This can get cut. Amuchimai. Germain
Canuhé - Rankül - La Pampa - Argentina Center
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Journal Arena.
Saturday June 5, 2010.
The conquest did not end The recent claim of the inhabitants of the west pampas before the next provincial deputies, again, to put the issue of land tenure on the political agenda.
These claims are not new, evidence that the "people's representatives" in the executive and legislative branches continue to owe a person from the same province as another solution for that is rooted and lived for many decades in the most inhospitable areas of our provincial territory, with incumbency in those remote extensions.
As explained for the umpteenth time, the delay in translating into action the promises to regularize the land titling continues to cause unease and uncertainty. Because outsiders continue to emerge, carrying the "roles" that they do not have, install fences and advancing on their territories.
This outrageous situation shows that the so-called "conquest of the desert" did not finish. It is known that in the design of that "civilizing crusade", the management and the rule of law was never based on an equitable land distribution. By contrast, the progress on the territories where indigenous peoples lived, made with blood and fire with a high cost in lives and uprooting, was conducted by the State with the law in his hand. And that was the law that justified the dispossession and appropriation of the best land for a few but very powerful aristocratic families of our country. Those "famous" surnames were those who signed the bonds that financed, minimally, of course, the successive military campaigns.
Many of the settlers suffered today continue to be reported this situation of injustice are descendants of indigenous people defeated and confined to the most remote corners. Remained there, forgotten in those faraway places, like silent witnesses to the tragedy that concluded that "clash of civilizations." But in recent decades, the shift of the agricultural frontier as a result of a favorable combination of technological and climatic factors, became attractive fields that once were "discarded" by unproductive.
The stallholders warn that, while it takes the regularization of property titles still appear fences that section fields where they live. And they also say that this situation can lead to violence as they do not want to remain passive observers of the usurpation of the land they have occupied for decades.
This lack of documentation also denied the possibility of charging the right of servitude to the companies that explore and exploit oil in the southwest corner of the province.
The greatest sin of oesteños is far away, too far from "civilization." Therefore it is a problem that "not seen" in this capital. Long ago, a deputy aware and sensitive to the problem was bound to attract attention by moving its office to one of the posts in that area. Only then failed to break the indifference peers and was able to advance in solving some problems.
But clearly there is still much road ahead to meet the legitimate demands of our person from the same province as another.
Link:
http://www.laarena.com.ar/opinion-la_conquista_no_termino-48495-111.html In Photo: GERMÁN Canhua-Lonko Rankulche
