Voices from the Territory
Transcript
And we, Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, especially us young people, are using the internet and social media as tools of struggle and resistance. They are a way to counter the dominant media that exists here.
If we were not the protagonists of our own narratives, our issues would not appear in the major media outlets. So no one—no one—is better than us to speak about ourselves. No one is better than Indigenous Peoples to talk about what happens in our territories, what happens to our peoples, what happens to our language, our culture, and our identity.
It is also a way for us to democratize what we want to say to people. We understand that the terms used in major media outlets are often very theoretical. So we go there and translate and demystify them, so people can understand what we want to communicate to the population and to our own relatives.
Here in Brazil, we live under the Constitution, which guarantees rights. We are Indigenous peoples. We have our rights guaranteed through our Constitution.
Mainstream media often fails to reflect Indigenous realities, pushing young people to use digital platforms to speak for themselves and their territories. Through social media and online organizing, communities are reclaiming their narratives and making their voices visible. Communicating in accessible and culturally rooted ways is essential to defending rights, protecting identity, and ensuring that Indigenous perspectives shape the climate conversation.
How do we diversify climate voices?
Racialized, feminized voices have been silenced and to tackle oppression, we must put those voices at the center of climate action and diversify the channels and mechanisms through which we communicate solutions
