Videos and write that talk about origin: ancestralism and memory of the ridges, streams and Wapishan indigenous

Abstract

The question that guides this article is: to what extent does the publication of videos and books in Wapishana contribute to prestige and disseminate the knowledge of this people? There is a demand for materials in the Wapishana language to be used in indigenous schools. From 2020 to 2023, videos and books were published in Wapishana, Portuguese, and English, as a result of the research National Inventory of Wapishana and Macuxi Linguistic Diversity (INDL) in Serra da Lua/RR Region. The study allowed young researchers to listen to their grandparents, film, transcribe, and translate their speeches, to strengthen the use of the language. This text aims to reflect on the videos Kayzyd daya'u (About Serra da Lua), Namachiwe'u da'ynau, Atury Wa'u, Marupá daya'u (History of Marupá), Kywai dunuzuinhau kasarai kadyz kid (Types of indigenous medicines), Stories of Clóvis Ambrósio and Wapichannau da'yau (History of the Wapichana), contributing to broaden the vision of those who don't know this indigenous people and their territory, helping to broaden the vision of those who were unfamiliar with this ethnicity. The methodology was netnographic and the main results were perceiving the relations between documented texts and the discussions about the Wapishana language, territory, literature and materials for teaching Wapishana and history. The theoretical references mainly include works by indigenous intellectuals discussing transpersonality, memory, resistance, spirit language, subjectivities, visions and poetics about existence. In this way, man is the protagonist as much as the mountain range and the river. And this coexistence brings an idea of territory-person.