Name: TEDx】既可以是土著，也可以是白人。Randy Borman在TEDxAmazonia的演講。 (【TEDx】It is possible to be indigenous and white: Randy Borman at TEDxAmazonia)
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I am happy to be able to come and greet you people

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in this place that is farther even for us.

we are a people who are dedicated to maintaining

and taking care of our forest, not just for ourselves but for all of you.

And this is the message that I would like to bring to you.

The Cofán people are a small indigenous group

that lives up in the northeast and corner of Ecuador

and the southeast and corner of Colombia.

And only number by 2,500 people in total.

It's a group that has lived in the forest

and with the forest for many, many, many centuries.

When my parents first arrived there in the 1950s,

it was a very, very small group isolated in a huge Amazonia

and I was born just a little bit in the south

of the actual Cofán village where I grew up.

My parents took me there when I was about two months old.

I was a quite a thing for the whole village

because it was the first white baby that anybody that have ever seen,

and I grew up just as another one of the Cofán people in the village.

Small village with probably 120 people, more or less, when I was growing up.

Our culture was a culture that was based completely on the forest,

it was completely revolving around what we could take from the forest

and we had no concept of the time that it can ever change.

Our houses were built from materials that we found there at hand.

We were able to transport ourselves up and down the rivers

and packs some of the older Cofáns that have been down to Manaus.

The previous generation, actually my father-in-law.

This particular household was a household that I spent a lot of time

and personally because I really liked that

there is not a reason then I'll show you in just a minute.

But if you look around in the house, as I look at the picture,

just about everything in that picture comes directly from the rain forest,

and we didn't have to take anything from the outside world.

We have one aluminum pot sitting over on the corner,

but everything else is a product of the rain forest.

Our art worker social life are ability to create things

that we're really truly comfortable, for instance the hammock.

And we interface on a very small level with the outside world.

We are all important parts of what we were trying to live at the time.

The older man in this picture was my dad's closest friend,

in the village they were very, very close friends,

he was the chief of the village, named Guillermo.

that he was not only the chief, but he was also...

because of the shamanism, he never took a bath,

and so, when he'll try to hold me on his lap,

it was always this overwhelming sensory experience

But it was an extremely attractive culture, extremely rich culture

where we lived in harmony with ourselves with each other

This old lady was the reason that I was so attracted to that particular house

and she eventually became my great-grandmother-in-law

that we would catch with our blowgun or whatever like this.

that was my very, very treasured uncle that I would live with then.

This world was a world of unlimited resources,

a world that was just about impossible for us to understand

when, all of a sudden, the oil companies began to come in and...

as the oil companies poured into the area they brought tractors,

they brought roads, they brought our first taste of pollution,

as a rivers we have been able to drink out directly, previously,

all of a sudden it began to run with crude oil

and with chemicals that we didn't have names for.

one of my, now he is one of my brothers-in-law, he says:

"Hey! This stinks, this doesn't smell right!"

that was completely different and completely ignored us.

Pacho Quintero from San Miguel, died out during this stage.

And we were replaced by trucks carrying pipelines and pasture, grass...

Just an incredible, incredible impact for our culture.

Towns grew up in areas where we have previously used for our hunting

and our fishing and our subsistence culture.

All of a sudden, the Cofáns were considered an extinct tribe.

Anthropologists begin to talk about them have disappeared.

that begun to analyze deeply who we were.

And, when we begun the analysis we found that

we, aside from our language, aside from our cultural attributes,

aside from dance, aside from spiritual things,

and without our rain forest, we could no longer exist.

We begun a period of resistance that over the next few years,

and we were able to recover, at this point,

about 430,000 hectares of our original territories.