The Native Amazonians want the government to make us the legal owners of our homelands so we can live where we belong, on our own land. Our people have lived in these forests for 12,000 years, and our use of the land and its resources is sustainable.
Although some Native Amazonian people live much as we do, others still live much as did their ancestors 12 thousand of years before them. These communities organize their daily lives differently than our culture. Their food, medicines and clothing come primarily from the forest.
The Native Amazonians hunt, fish, and grow crops on small plots. When a field is no longer fertile, they clear a new one and leave the old one to be covered by the forest. They live there, work there, They do everything
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