#jagua

GUARANI Japyrundy paporundy Ypykuéra ára hína Brasil-pe. Ahechaukase ko ta'angápe hembiasakue ha hekove ko'ag̃agua ko tetãme. Amoha'ã'akue jagua'áicha, peteĩ mymba ko'apegua ha'éva py'aguasu rechaukaha. Kuimba'e oguereko peteĩ kãngue hendyvápe, ojehaiva'ekue háicha aranduka 1500-arygua. Japihakuéra omoha'anga la ñorairõ hekóre. Pe yvyra ha'e tembiporu ojuka hag̃ua ipyhypyre. Kuña ningo oguereko peteĩ mitã'i ha mbaraka. Ypykuéra ánga oiko hína mbaraka pype. Poroguerekovaiha, ka'aguy hapyha ha porojukaha, pekañy, he'i hikuái. Mitã'i omoha'anga teko oútava ypykuérape g̃uarã, ojejapótava hembiasakue resarai'ỹ. La bandeirante ha'e akãkãngue háicha. Ndamoha'ã mymba bandeirante-kuéra poromombyasyha'ápe. Akãkãngue ohechauka avei te'õ ogueruva'ekue poroguerekovaiha. Amoĩ Brasil poyvi ahechauka hag̃ua ojejapoha ko tetã ypykuéra reko oñemboje'óvo.

ENGLISH April 19th is Indigenous Peoples' Day in Brazil. I wanted to show, in this piece, their history and present as well. I decided to draw them as jaguars, a native animal that represents courage. The man has a bone n his chin, as described in books from the 1500s. His scars show his struggle to survive. The piece of wood he's holding is a tool used to kill captured enemies. The woman is holding a baby and a maraca. The ancestors' spirits live in the maraca. They're saying: oppressors, forest burners and genociders, get lost! The baby represents the future to the indigenous people, which will be made without abandoning their ancestry. The bandeirante is a skull. I chose not to associate any animal with their cruelty. The skull also represents death brought by colonization. I included the Brazilian flag to show Brazil was made by erasing the native peoples.

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