This is an email we just received and it breaks my heart:
In regards to this post.
Hi,I just read your post on Tumblr about the Brazilian Natives. It sadly made me remember it’s not an isolated episode, not even a new one. This has been happening in Latin America ever since the colonialism process started. Just an hour away from my city Bogotá, Colombia, 5,000 Tausa, Suta and Cucunubae Natives committed suicide in 1541, at the Farayones of Sutatausa to avoid slavery and the cruelty of Spanish tropes (who used to cut noses and ears from the natives during its expansion process).
I’m glad you highlight these kind of terrible doings, enabling young people to have an opportunity to be aware of them and maybe try to stop them. I started to follow you.
We appreciate your support, and appreciate even more the additional historical perspective you bring to this terrible situation. Reading that this has happened before really weighs heavily on me. If you come across additional ways we can show solidarity and enact support for these human beings put into this desperate situation, let us know. We’d like to help however we can. Thanks for reaching out.
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Being Colombian myself, I can say this is definitely true.
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