{"id":31291,"date":"2016-08-04T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T13:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=31291"},"modified":"2016-08-05T13:05:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:05:50","slug":"aldeia-maracana-fights-for-indigenous-museum-next-to-olympics-opening-ceremony-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=31291","title":{"rendered":"Aldeia Maracan\u00e3 Fights for Indigenous Museum Next to Olympics Opening Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Aldeia Maracan\u00e3<\/a> urban indigenous community once\u00a0occupied\u00a0the former Indigenous Museum next to the Maracan\u00e3 stadium<\/a>, where\u00a0the 2016 Olympics<\/a> opening ceremony will take place tomorrow. Home to the community from 2006 until their forced eviction<\/a> in\u00a0March 2013<\/a>, in the aftermath of the violent eviction, the state government announced that the building would\u00a0be turned into a museum by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB). In December 2013 it was decreed that the Reference Center for the Culture of Indigenous Peoples would be established on the site, with the expectation among former residents that it would be completed by April 2016.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
\nThe building was owned by the federal government\u00a0until it was\u00a0sold to the Rio de Janeiro state government in 2012 for R$60 million. Built in 1862, it\u00a0once housed the national Indigenous Peoples Protection Service (SPI) and was the first museum dedicated to indigenous culture in Brazil, but remained\u00a0derelict and abandoned until occupied by indigenous families in 2006. Named the Aldeia Maracan\u00e3, the occupation established itself as a cultural reference point and mounted a strong resistance<\/a> to eviction<\/a>. Though unable to resist their own eviction, residents managed to save\u00a0the historic building itself from demolition in 2013, and attain the promise that the museum would be renovated into a reference center for indigenous culture.<\/p>\n

Since then, however,\u00a0neither the Brazilian Olympic Committee nor the state government have carried out any works to transform the site into a museum and\u00a0currently the site suffers a\u00a0continual police presence to prevent re-occupation. Over the\u00a0coming weeks, the area around the former Aldeia Maracan\u00e3 will host thousands of people in the five Olympic venues in the Maracan\u00e3 zone.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/a><\/p>\n

Displaced from the reference point they’d established for indigenous culture in Rio de Janeiro, most residents of Aldeia Maracan\u00e3 were first relocated over one\u00a0hour west to containers in Jacarepagu\u00e1<\/a> in the West Zone<\/a> before being moved to highrise\u00a0Minha Casa Minha Vida<\/a> public housing units in Est\u00e1cio, a centrally located North Zone<\/a> neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Carlos Doethyr\u00f3 Tukano, president of the Aldeia Maracan\u00e3 Indigenous Association, comments on the disparity between investments in the Maracan\u00e3 complex and the now uninhabited museum that was once his home. He says:\u00a0“On one side there’s the Maracan\u00e3\u00a0that has been renovated with more than R$1 billion, and on the other there’s the Indigenous Museum’s small space where renovation would\u00a0not exceed R$7 million, which is required\u00a0for urgent renovations.”<\/p>\n

The community and supporters are fighting for the re-establishment of an indigenous center\u00a0on the site of the Aldeia Maracan\u00e3 and for a space to resume their cultural activities and way of life. Peaceful protests have been held outside the building and the group has filed a lawsuit to return to the occupation.<\/p>\n

However, Tukano believes that nothing will happen or progress\u00a0until after the Olympics: “I don’t believe they’ll\u00a0mess with anything now. They won’t do\u00a0anything until September because of the Olympics, which is bringing lots of people and is being presented here in Rio. The same thing happened with the World Cup<\/a>. They won’t deal with us now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas The Aldeia Maracan\u00e3 urban indigenous community once\u00a0occupied\u00a0the former Indigenous Museum next to the Maracan\u00e3 stadium, where\u00a0the 2016 Olympics opening ceremony will take place tomorrow. Home to the community from 2006 until […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":15935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1293,1736,336,1329],"tags":[646,504,11,715,165,716,37,5,270,167],"writer":[2156],"translator":[],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-evictionswatch","8":"category-1736","9":"category-violations","10":"category-by-international-observers","11":"tag-aldeia-maracana","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-forced-evictions","14":"tag-indigenous","15":"tag-maracana","16":"tag-museum","17":"tag-north-zone","18":"tag-olympics","19":"tag-resistance","20":"tag-world-cup","21":"writer-luke-kon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31291"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=31291"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=31291"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=31291"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=31291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}