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KARI-OCA DECLARATION
We, the Indigenous Peoples, walk to the
future in the footprints of our ancestors.
From the smallest to the largest living
being, from the four directions, from the air, the land and the mountains.
The creator has placed us. The Indigenous peoples upon our Mother the
earth.
The footprints of our ancestors are
permanently etched upon the lands of our peoples.
We, the Indigenous peoples, maintain our
inherent rights to self-determination. We have always had the right to
decide our own forms of government, to use our own laws, to raise and
educate our children, to our own cultural identity without interference.
We continue to maintain our rights as
peoples despite centuries of deprivation, assimilation and genocide.
We maintain our inalienable rights to our
lands and territories, to all our resources -- above and below -- and to
our waters. We assert our ongoing responsibility to pass these onto the
future generations.
We cannot be removed from our lands. We,
the Indigenous peoples are connected by the circle of life to our lands
and environments.
We, the Indigenous peoples, walk to the
future in the footprints of our ancestors.
Signed at Kari-oca, Brazil on the 30th Day
of May, 1992
Reaffirmed at Bali, Indonesia, 4 June 2002.
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