hello everyone everyone good so I'm not
very used to to speak with a microphone
hope it should be okay
my name is Nisha waka I come from the
rain forest in Amazon Brazil and I'm
living here for four years now
and when I came here I didn't know any
English I didn't know nothing actually
and the weather was crazy for me with
her especially the weather but was okay
afterwards if I walk in the street with
just clothes and my face not painted or
not with my headdress
people think that I'm come from Peru
Bolivia Mexico but yes I come from the
yawanawa tribe in the Amazon rainforest
yes I feel more comfortable
I really feel more comfortable I would
like to say just some few words in my
language if it's okay
Masha Rai moshai means how are you how
is going ah
Nisha yawanawa yahoo
my two we you are I just said that my
name is Nisha wakka I come from the
yellow tribe and I'm here to visit you
to see you I just would like to talk a
little bit of of nature and how nature
is so important for indigenous people
especially tribal people but also for
everyone in this world if you see if you
we think really deep I think everyone
will feel something that where you came
from
and what this would look like now
main thing has changed all all over the
world but for tribal people like like me
it didn't change anything in some some
countries even Brazil's of America some
chopped they are different they they
know the language for example cheese or
any other language
some of them they lost the language they
lost their culture tradition but there
is still many living in the same way
that they used to I just want to talk a
little bit about my people
when we first contact made the first
contact with with with the white white
the white people
it was my great-grandfather he he was 11
years old he first saw the white me and
he just run away the white man didn't
see him and he told his our family that
he saw some people with strange people
different people with clothes with beard
with sunglass or glasses and he didn't
understand how where these people came
from and they said how we will talk with
them if you don't read out of the
language so he decided to kill a deer he
went to a for hunt and he came to those
white people and just throw the deer and
the white people gave him a small knife
and it was a positive contact it was a
good contact because usually when the
first contact happened with additional
people
each tab bottles happened
lots of killing and it most of South
America it happened like that we are
glad that we we didn't teach didn't have
any fighting and nothing only problem
was that the different kind of disease
our shipments for example our people
start started getting ill and they
didn't understand how what was sealed
units and the Shaymin did everything to
heal but he couldn't heal and all the
shimon as well was dying because we
indigenous people we had no immunity
and for this is like simple like flu
code it was all new for us but we
survived and we learned Portuguese I was
very young when I went to a city very
small small town and I learned
Portuguese that's why I'm speaking
English if you go to Brazil Amazonia I
quite sure you would not find someone I
engine person that you can speak English
in speak with you and I'm really glad to
be here
to be able to speak about indigenous
people culture about our tradition we
have we still have our knowledge with
the medicine plants Brazil for example
is home for more than 80 different
tribes that still is related they even
don't have any contact with indigenous
people like like mine like me and the
reason that I came to londo was to to
learn English first of all and be able
to speak for them because they have
decided to not make contact with the
white of the the Western world we see
that when we come close to them they run
away or they want to - short short short
us with the arrows and ball and we are
telling the government to protect them
to protect their territories the first
stroke that I have was to adapt to here
because the word is really cold and it
was really different for me and then I
went to school a start for one year last
year I found this organization called
Survival International they work with
tribal different tribes people around
the world especially in South America
and I said yes I have this opportunity
to
- now I'm working with them and I'm
raising awareness for for tribals people
for the protection of tribes people
especially as well in Africa South
Africa and Botswana and it has been
really great for me it's been a really
good experience I still learn today the
language and the skills skills for my
English we still practice our culture
this is something that I would like to
say talking about we are all connected
with nature and we we receive many
people that from Europe they want to
visit my tribe for example to see how we
still living and we have this week of
traditional party and we have our sacred
rituals it's the ritual that we have our
medicine plants that we use it to to
communicate with the spirit of the
forest we believe that the in the forest
there is lots of spirit winner Shimon
four-zip goes to take a plant in a
forage he asked the plant I will take
you I will use you to heal someone
because if he didn't say nothing
the plant has no effect the plant had
effect have effect when - women say
women asked you that imma gonna argue
with you I will use you to heal my my
people and right now our forest has been
disappearing because of many big
projects of government for for example
mining and Lobby logging and we its be
really hard for us to protect our
forests because we think that the phrase
is not just important for us for my
people but for other people in
use of America and especially to keep
this balance in the world because I
think everyone needs need to have the
first protected because it clean the air
it's a pure way for us to breathe
I was really sad when I found out the
the the climate change and the climate
changes we think it's something wrong
with the agrees with the world why the
climate is changing why this a lot of
disaster happening within the world we
don't understand
why and our Shimon says that it's
because something wrong with the world
the world is like he's used to say we
say that it's a lack of love and
understanding each other money sometimes
money it's it's good for for for many
things but it can be really bad as well
and we think that the problem is like
people just want what something they
want to more and more and more in there
is no end in the world is like there is
no more control what people need is more
love and understand each other we think
that is going to be a solution to to see
yourself and to see other people's to
see how they live and how we communicate
with the nature and how we keep the
nature alive and that's why I'm here to
to talk with people I'm actually giving
some talk at school for children and
tell them that how how we have
indigenous people live in the forest and
talk about our I talk about our how we
hunt how we fish how we do our house and
they are all interested they say they
get really impressed when they see
someone coming to from the Amazon and
talk with them how indigenous people
lives and they ask lots of questions and
it's all interesting for them because
here
for example there is no no no indigenous
people but we indigenous people have we
we have we think that we know how to
keep this culture culture alive and how
we can share with the watch with the
outside world and the international
community for example the public it was
something that I found really
interesting was that people from here
from out of Brazil they most of them I
can say they really care about the
preservation of the nature and the
preservation of of different cultures
indigenous people and the reason that I
want I would like to stay a little bit
more I want to go back to my tribe and
we stayed to live there the way I think
it's best for me but before I would like
to say to people that we still there we
still live in the same way and our door
is always open to welcome people and see
how we live right now for because of the
public the international community the
Brazilian government for example is is
taking action to preserve the indigenous
territory especially those on that still
i isolated from the outside we have some
campaigns for some some job in Brazil
for example what I need is a name of
antigens the biggest population of
indigenous people in Brazil is the
Guarani more than 50,000 and they have a
big problem because they the land is now
is place for sugar cane plantation soya
and most of community they are living by
the road they don't access for any
support from the government and
malnutrition even suicide happened a lot
because they don't have the anymore
deranged
and if people indigenous people lose the
land which means the ange of everything
especially our lives starting with the
with the culture and you will say into
the government to Brazil Brazilian
government that we want to still live in
in our lands we want to have our forests
protected because 4s means lives for us
means our body for us means our
everything and we live because we have
the forest it's more kind of awareness
what I'm doing in here is saying that we
are in this situation but we also we
have this this knowledge to share with
the Western world yeah and if you would
like to know more watch it watch it
tribals people what is what how they
live who are they
it's mini quest is there are many
questions that people would like to know
and I would like to tell you if you
would like to know more about tribal
people in the how they live the
importance of the rain threat for them
is to mainly visit your website survive
international.com and we they work with
indigenous people for example in my
tribe we every every year in October we
have this festival it's a traditional
festival and it for five days and we
offer people we have lots of different
kinds of games and during the night we
practice our real tools sacred rituals
it's called we have it this is special
drink it's called the ayahuasca it's
like it's it's a very strong drink and
it's a very strong drink you can you can
see how what what is lives is starting
like how see yourself see you is speech
and watch what you're doing here in this
world and you can see through this this
ritual if you believe in this
so I believe that indigenous people we
have lots to share with the world a
visit with the out outside world and we
are always opening our doors always open
to welcoming everyone to visit in to
know more about tribal people I would
like just take this small song which
means if you are visiting some of
someone it's like you are going again
you you you tells that there is this
happiness which means happiness cannot
rotate it
a Kannada charity
a autónoma no ma
ah Otto no mando ma
Mihai Mihai Mihai
you know my my head my head oh my my
II this is when you're visiting someone
and some your visit you're going to
visit your family or your friends in the
house or the place you we always think
this song to say like which buy you this
kind of expression thank you very much
for receiving me
TEDx Hackney yeah I'm really up here
thank you