Manuel Betancourt The story of colonialism is the story of what’s been lost, of what’s been taken, of what’s been forgotten.
Land. Languages. Entire cosmologies. The process of reclaiming these losses, of doing the work of not undoing but outright naming this kind of violence is hard, not least because the story colonialism tells of itself is about what’s been gained, of what’s been learned, of what’s been earned.
God’s love, for one. Western ideals, obviously. And material wealth, or its prospect at least.For Mateo Sobode Chiqueno, who carries with him a tape recorder at the ready, capturing the stories of his fellow Ayoreo peoples in the Paraguayan Chaco region is his own way of trying to tell a different kind of story than the one often.
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