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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I just remembering one of the things that impressed me a great deal about the Yanomami,

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there were many things that did of course, living with people like that who survived, happily and healthily in the tropical rain forest,

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but one of them had to do with how they viewed other people who were culturally different from themselves.

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Where they live in the North of Brazil, they're in contact, in fact some of their communities are bicultural communities,

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they're in contact with the Ye'Kuana or Maquiritare Indians from Venezuela who have a somewhat different tropical forest culture,

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and they're also nowadays of course in contact with the White men, and my wife and myself living among them,

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we were constant objects of sort of cultural fascination because we did things differently

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and because they were, curious to see whether we would do things the same way that they did

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mostly had to do with whether or not we would eat various food stuffs that they would be willing to offer to us if they were persuaded that we would eat them.

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One of the expressions we learned after a while that they used repeatedly about us

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would be when visiting Yanomami from another village came in

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and we were on display, we used to sometimes feel like we were chimpanzees in a zoo.

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We were on display to these visitors, and questions would be asked about how we did things,

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and we would regularly hear the sentence, no no no, they don't do that because they're different, of course.

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[[??]] we were different people of course, they don't do things that way. But the difference between the Yanomami and us and it's something that I would love us all to learn from the Yanomami and I hope from these other people who are here today

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is that they don't mind us being different. They see that we're different, they see that the Ye'kuana are different,

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they see that other tribes are different, and they're perfectly delighted that we should be different

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and they have not the least inclination, they don't want us to change and become like us,

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they want us to go on being ourselves, and I hope we can take that attitude

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to these people who now, for some reasons that are not entirely happy, are living among us in America today.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Well I thank you all for coming to this, and thank you all for participating.

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I hope when we start up again on Wednesday when we have more discussions along this line,

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you people will come back, or tell your friends to come,

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and I hope this will make everyone think a little bit more about the value

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both to those people themselves and to all of us of indigenous culture, indigenous knowledge,

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of the environment, and indigenous knowledge of the world.

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All of us on it, so thank you everybody.

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Transcription Notes:
Some of the names need to be transcribed still. Different transcriber from Venezuela - I got the names. [00:32:12]"[[??]]" - what was said at the beginning of this segment still needs to be resolved