‘Young people are leaving us’ in Amazon suicide wave

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MSOpinion ‘Young people are leaving us’ in Amazon suicide wave “The move was meant to cleanse the settlement of “evil spirits” blamed on Western vices intruding and tempting Indigenous youth away from their ancestral values.” READ:

“Many never manage to find work after graduating and are obliged to return home without knowing how to fish or farm and having to fight attempts to force them into traditional arranged marriages.”

“I lost my son, my only son,” shaman Ivan Angarita, 40, told AFP in the town of Arara, home to 1,200 inhabitants who are members of the Tikuna Indigenous group or “Water People” as they call themselves. The ceremony to expel malevolent spirits was followed by 20 days of abstention from what are viewed here as “Western” distractions.

“The young people are leaving us,” said Loida Angel Ruiz, a 53-year-old teacher from San Martin de Amacayacu, another Tikuna village affected by the scourge. The Tikuna dwell in Amazon areas of Brazil, Colombia and Peru and comprise the most populous tribe in the Amazon. It starts at a young age, she said, when children from remote communities move to boarding schools in larger towns where discrimination against them is rife.

 

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