Xingu Page #4

Who promised them a village?

You play their game too, Claudio!

And we're going to have

to keep on playing...

to keep this place standing.

And if you want to talk about Leonardo,

let me tell you something...

Leonardo left because

he f***ed up.

And you watch your step if

don't want to go down the same path.

We're leaving.

I have to take care of

the park's northern boundary.

We're going to unite all your people,

like I promised...

and make a big village there.

And Prepori is going to be the chief.

And you, Pionim...

are going to live with me

at the outpost there, at Diauarum.

You'll work with me there.

I'm a Caiabi too, why can't I

go to the village with them?

Because you're coming

with me to the outpost.

LEONARDO OUTPOS NATIONAL XINGU PARK

Pionim, go sleep in the other house.

And take your things too.

The Caiabi were scattered

throughout southern Para.

Bringing them into the park

wasn't going to be easy.

OPERATION CAIABI

The park might be a safe haven,

but it wasn't their land.

I came here with Claudio

to get you all...

and take you back to the Xingu.

We have our own land there.

The white man here

is destroying our land.

We'll have our own village

in the Xingu.

I need more gasoline, Orlando.

Much more.

Don't you want it, huh?

There is land for all of us

in the Xingu.

We have boats to take you all.

You can hunt in the Xingu, fish.

No one can tell you what to do.

Come on, go, come.

Go, go, go.

Hurry up!

Go!

I need first aid medicine, fast.

Many Caiabi are coming

into the Xingu.

We'll build more villages.

MILITARY GOVERNMEN HAS PLANS FOR AMAZON REGION

You've got to act fast, Claudio.

The military government has

their eyes on the Amazon region.

THIRD YEAR OF OPERATION CAIABI

Go, go go-

The miners are getting closer.

What is it?

What's going on?

- He doesn't want to go.

- What's your problem?

I work here, make money here...

so, I'm going to stay here

with my family!

This is white man's land.

In the village, the park,

where the Caiabi are.

That's where your land is,

you have to go there!

Look, my boss is coming.

You come now.

With your family.

You come now!

Go!

Go on, get in!

Come on! Let's go!

Go, go!

I'm tired, Tauarru.

Colo! Colo!

Claudio!

- Do Indians exist?

- Belgium is ours, Claudio!

- The Xingu nations.

- You obey them too.

Orlando isn't going...

You'll be going down the same path.

White people who protect Indians,

for us, are worse than Indians.

He's decided he's not going to die.

You play their game too, Claudio.

- What's her name?

- Who promised them a village?

Civilizing them is the fastest way...

And we're going...

It'll be the longest

highway in the world.

You see where they cross here?

The highway is going to

to cut through the forest.

The Transamazon Highway.

But, does it have to run

right through here?

Couldn't you just

move it over to the side a bit...

Or, maybe make a detour here,

just to go around this part...

Orlando, what are you doing?

This is the Kreen's land.

Orlando, I don't know

if you've noticed...

but the highways have, so far,

respected your boundaries.

I know, and I thank you

for your consideration.

But the Kreen, they've never seen

a white man before.

They could react badly.

Get them out, clear the way.

But, make it quick.

Major, couldn't we just leave them

where they are a bit longer...

- in isolation...

- No way.

And besides, we don't think that

isolation is good for anyone.

Progress, that's what's good.

- Even for Indians.

- No, no it isn't.

Sorry to disagree with you,

but it isn't.

And even for us, I have my doubts.

But, for them, progress is

neither good, nor necessary.

Work has already begun.

Hundreds of peons.

And peons, you know, right?

Are all very ignorant people.

Claudio?

Claudio!

Come here.

Orlando?

We're going to have to go and

save the Kreen, Claudio.

The Kreen?

The first part of the highway goes

through here. Right through their land.

Impossible, they can't do that.

do something.

This can't happen, Orlando.

It's no use, these people

won't listen, Claudio.

The Kreen are the last ones, Orlando.

Let's go and get them.

Bring them into the park.

Something inside them dies forever

as soon as we get near.

I'm not going after the Kreen.

You go if you want.

I won't lay a finger on the Kreen.

I have a question to ask you.

Why did you want to save

the Caiabi so bad...

and you can't save the Kreen?

We help those who are already lost.

And the Kreen, aren't

they going to be lost?

The way the Kreen were

will never be again.

But they will be another way.

Claudio.

TWO YEARS LATER:

To walk where no one

has walked before.

Go where no white man

has ever gone.

Because there is no place where

the white man can't go.

To get there before the others...

was all that we could ever do.

HERE ON THE BANKS OF THE XINGU RIVER

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AMAZON FORES THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

LAID THE FOUNDING STONE

OF THE TRANSAMAZON HIGHWAY

OF THE 600

KREEN-AKARORI INDIANS FOUND

79 SURVIVED THE ARRIVAL

OF THE HIGHWAY:

AND WERE TAKEN:

TO THE XINGU INDIAN PARK

IN 1971, CLAUDIO AND ORLANDO

WERE INDICATED:

FOR THE NOBLE PEACE PRIZE

IN 1984, WITH THE HELP

OF THE VILLAS BOAS BROTHERS

THE INDIANS TOOK OVER

THE COMMAND OF THE PARK

IN 2011 THE PARK CELEBRATED

ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY

STILL PRESERVED,

BUT CONSTANTLY THREATENED.

APPROXIMATELY 49 VILLAGES

EXIST IN THE PARK

13 OF THEM ARE CAIABI

DEDICATED TO THE PEOPLE OF XINGU

MARINA, NOEL, VILINHA

AND THE ENTIRE VILLAS BOAS FAMILY

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