Revista Pihhy

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CLACS is proud to be a part of Revista Pihhy, a collaboration with the Núcleo Takinahakỹ de Formação Superior Indígena at the Universidade Federal de Goiás and the Secretaría de Formação, Livro e Leitura at the Ministério da Cultura in Brasilia, that focuses on knowledge production by Indigenous people in Brazil.

CLACS will publish English-language translations from the Brazilian journal by the Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil.

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MẼ IXPAPXÀ MẼ IXÀHPUMUNH MẼ IXUJAHKREXÀ: Territory, Knowledge and Ancestrality in the Panhĩ School Education Processes

Julio Ribeiro Kamêr Apinajé
Translated by Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil

The author reports on how the transmission of oral culture, through the Panhĩ musicality inherited from their ancestors, is essential in the understanding and resistance of Panhĩ Apinajé culture. He also argues about the importance of traditional singing in the education of Indigenous youth and how this impacts the preservation of Indigenous cosmology.

MẼ IXPAPXÀ MẼ IXÀHPUMUNH MẼ IXUJAHKREXÀ: Territory, Knowledge and Ancestrality in the Panhĩ School Education Processes (pdf 1.6 MB)

Forest Psychology: Mental Health in Kanhgág Perspective

Rejane Paféj Kanhgág
Translated by Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil

The author reflects on how practices of mental health and cure have long been present in ancestral Kanhgág body-territories. Emphasizing the centrality of Indigenous territory, demarcation, and cosmoperception to collective futures, a specifically Kanhgág forest psychology disrupts the “supposedly universal knowledge of coloniality” and urges the non-Indigenous (fóg) to hear and join Indigenous struggle.

Forest Psychology: Mental Health in Kanhgág Perspective (pdf 300 KB)

Nhandereko, the Guarani Law

Vilmar Guarany
Translated by Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil

The author, a Myba Guarani lawyer and university professor with a doctorate in social anthropology, argues for a deeper conception of Indigenous Peoples’ law systems, proposing understanding Nhandereko not merely as Guarani ‘customs,' but as wholistic law. Nhandereko should be recognized as a sphere of sovereign, self-determined political-social order on an internal and international legal stage.

Nhandereko, the Guarani Law (pdf 1.4 MB)

Nhandereko, o Direito Guarani (pdf 9.0 MB)

TAKÃRA: Epistemological Center and Cosmic Communication System for the Cultural Vitality of the Apyãwa World

Gilson Ipaxi’awyga Tapirapé (Tenywaawi)
Translated by Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil

Tenywaawi tells us about his educational history and his return to Apyãwa epistemology. In this, he emphasizes the centrality of the Takãra for the epistemological and socio-cultural sustenance of the Apyãwa people.

TAKÃRA: Epistemological Center and Cosmic Communication System for the Cultural Vitality of the Apyãwa World (pdf 7.7 MB)

CARÕ ME: Drawing Experience in the School Courtyard

José Alecrim
Translated by Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil

The author reflects on his upbringing and education in the state of Goiás. In school, he was taught negative stereotypes of Indigenous peoples. He now works as an educator in the state’s school network, where he contributes to a traveling art exhibit that uses drawing and visual art to teach school communities about Indigenous issues.

"CARÕ ME: Drawing Experience in the School Courtyard" (pdf 2.0 MB)

CARÕ ME: Uma Experiência de Desenho no Pátio da Escola (pdf 6.3 MB)

Suri (Happy in Nheengatu) and Pimenta, the Sloth

Bete Morais
Translated by Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil

In the stories "Suri (Happy in Nheengatu)" and "Pimenta, the Sloth," Bete Morais explores the relationship between people, beings, and territory based on the ancestral knowledge of the Indigenous communities of the Alto Rio Negro.

Suri (Happy in Nheengatu) and Pimenta, the Sloth (pdf 7.3 MB)

"SURI (Feliz em nheengatu)" e "A PREGUIÇA PIMENTA" (pdf 4.7 MB)

Wato ne hômpu ne kãmpa: I live, I see, and I hear Mehi

Creuza Prumkwyj Krahô
Translated by Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil

In "I live, I see, and I hear Mehi (Mãkrarè) life," Creuza Prumkwyj Krahô describes the practice of the resguardos, the traditional methods of deep reflection that safeguard Krahô knowledge, and how Krahô women preserve this knowledge as men migrate to urban areas.

Wato ne hômpu ne kãmpa: I live, I see, and I hear Mehi (Mãkrarè) life (pdf 576 KB)

Where are Your People's Instruments? (February 2024)

Glicéria Tupinambá
Translated by Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil

The author narrates her journey to find her people’s musical instruments, which were expropriated from the Tupinambá and hidden away in European museums and private collections. Following guidance from her dreams, the Encantados, and the ancestral knowledge of her people, Glicéria shares the centrality of sensible listening in her search through opaque colonial collections.

"Where are Your People's Instruments?" (pdf 2.5 MB)

"Onde estão os instrumentos do teu povo?"

PATHS OF ANCESTRY: Sustaining Kaingang Epistemological Existences (January 2024)

Bruno Ferreira
Translated by Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil

This article explores the relationship between Indigenous ancestral knowledge, particularly of the Kaingang, and education in Indigenous schools, with the aim of acknowledging the methodologies and practices of the Kaingang people. This knowledge, which is founded upon ancestral space-times, is shared and constructed by the lived experiences of all members of the community and, the author argues, may open new pathways to education.

Paths of Ancestry (pdf 5.5 MB)

Caminhos da Ancestralidade (link)