Huni-Kuin
Huni-Kuin means “True or Real Human”, a name which appropriately describes the Nature and heart of the people.
Since time immemorial The Huni-Kuin have lived in harmony with the Planet in the Amazon Rain Forest that concentrates the greatest biodiversity on Earth.
In this Abundant Habitat, the Ancestors harnessed a Culture and Worldview of Great Spiritual Wisdom and Developed Ancient and Advanced Healing Technologies.
Guided by the collective power of the heart, the entire Culture is Deeply Connected to the Rainforest, developing True Wisdom about the healing power of plants, cultivating a harmonious social cohesion and a language developed with tones and sounds that echo the rainforest carried on spiritual winds of the surrounding eco-system.
The Huni-Kuin Nation inhabit mostly Brazilian lands in the Amazon Rainforest, their territory extends to the foot of the Andes in eastern Peru, The Huni-Kuin are the largest indigenous population in the Brazilian state of Acre, currently living in twelve indigenous lands along seven different rivers: Purus, Envira, Murú, Humaitá, Tarauacá, Breu and Jordão.
The Huni Kuin are often referred to as the last guardians of the forest and are by nature environmental activists and sacred protectors of the earth and her forests. Their culture, history, and entire existence are intricately dependent on the jungle and its abundance.
Their contact with western man happened a little more than a hundred years ago, very violently, initially with enslavement by the rubber barons and later by foreign protestant missionaries that forbid indigenous culture and spirituality.
At the end of the last century, the Huni-Kuin have regained the rights to their lands, drove away the missionaries and since then have been leading a process of cultural and spiritual revival that has crossed national and international boundaries and today inspires the world.
In 1913 the Purus region itself had 60,000 colonizers. During this time, violence was organized as the rubber extractors were not only clearing rubber trails, they were employed to remove indigenous population. The rubber tappers brought years of disease, genocide, and land encroachment.
Despite years of persecution, The Huni-Kuin’s ancient traditions and sacred rituals have triumphed and to this day they continue to pray to the spirit of the forest for global healing and transformation.
Current Issues
- The indigenous peoples of Brazil and the Amazon Rain Forest have faced immense human rights violations and environmental atrocities that have lasted centuries, the oppression and inhumanity endured through the colonisations, deforestation, brutal Christian missionaries and the rubber trade intended on killing, consuming and controlling the indigenous peoples, the ancient culture and the rainforest alike.
- Illegal Missionaries, mining companies, loggers, pharmaceutical companies, rubber barons and European colonies have all in the most unsustainable and inhumane ways, exploited and capitalized on the lungs of the earth and its ancient people. This has caused the destruction of our world’s most diverse and abundant eco system, the destruction and oppression of one of our world’s most ancient and wise people and not to mention the normalisation and world-wide acceptance that this mentality of colonisation, appropriation, consumerism, classing systems and detachment from nature has become the natural way of life.
- A modern mentality and culture born from colonisation and atrocity.
- The loss of culture and the extermination of the way of life that the indigenous people live by, who regard mother nature, community and spirit as the most important characteristics of the human species is the greatest issue that the Huni-Kuin and all of ancient culture and people face.
- The colonial extermination of people, ancient culture and mother nature from the western mentality systems has given birth to the imbalanced and sick society we live in today. Consumerism, capital driven education, medical systems, business systems, classing and race systems along with industrialization has proven to put the whole human species in crises, corruption, criminalization, illness and on the brink of extinction as our climate sits on the edge of collapse.
- The ongoing oppression, racism, undermining, classing system’s and lack of basic needs that thousands of communities are going through across our globe that stems from colonisations, oppressions, genocides and western mind-states and policies is the main issues indigenous peoples face.
- The exploitation of natural resources on sacred lands for profit driven companies and fossil fuel and mining enterprises.
- The federal governments of Brazil are still stripping the indigenous peoples of land, decimating sacred sites and human rights, there is still a colonial mentality which is extremely oppressive and racist.
- The exploitation of natural resources on sacred lands for profit driven companies and fossil fuel and mining enterprises.
- Violence against women and children
- Indigenous language and culture dying due to the first genocides inflicted upon the people
- Indigenous rights and wisdom not recognized or taken seriously by federal governments.
Solutions
- Helping to protect, preserve and share the wisdom of the Huni-Kuin and its ancient people with the world through building and developing cultural, healing, preservation and resource centres as the central solution along with basic and vital infrastructural necessities, like water purification and management solutions, basic energy/solar solutions, lodging for outside visitors, small scale agriculture and tools/machinery.
- Opening the cultural and resource centres to individuals, groups, schools, businesses, public, modern medicine systems, environmental groups, activists, civil society and politicians so that we may see first-hand the wisdom, love, solutions that the ancient cultures hold along with understanding the atrocities that have occurred and how these human rights violations have negatively shaped modern human culture locally and globally and righting these wrongs.
- Further-more to provide channels and platforms for the Ancient people to have their voices and decisions heard, regarding the state of our world, environment, culture and nature. To be in positions to make a serious, beneficial change on a social, cultural, environmental, economic, political and educational climate.
- Addressing the current legal and human rights issues in court and beginning to correct these violations.
- Healing the colonial mentality and culture which was born through genocide and atrocities.
Infrastructure
- Cultural preservation centre
- Water management and purification
- Housing
- Energy solar
- eco-agriculture
- Tools and machinery
Land, Culture, Human Rights and Lawyers
- Addressing the human, cultural and land rights violations that have taken place through partnering with NGO’s, Civil Society, Lawyers and Experts in an alliance with indigenous peoples to help support ancient culture and the environment in helping to correct the atrocities that have taken place.
- Addressing these particular issues and violations in the court of law and begin to correct some of the human rights atrocities on a political level.
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