conditions of landless indigenous peoples
in Paraguay by securing land for them,
preferably larger tracts of forest. Thus we
try to ensure that the communities can live
their lives according to their own ideas
and traditions. We purchase the lands if,
for legal reasons, the authorities are
unable to implement indigenous land
claims.
of the Totobiegosode
"The civilised" say that we must
respect private property. But they
have never respected the fact
that we and our ancestors lived here
before them and that we want to
go on living here. (Erui, 1996)