Conclusions and recommendations of the First Forum of Indigenous Intellectuals and Researchers

Working Group on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

That the Andean Community General Secretariat should send both the governments and indigenous organizations in the respective countries information about the situation of the Working Group on Indigenous Peoples so that they can make the necessary decisions to make it viable within three months’ time.

That those of us attending should use our influence over the indigenous organizations of the Andean Community countries to promote the reestablishment and operation of the Working Group on Indigenous Peoples.

Strategies to follow up on the “Community of the Knowledge, Wisdom and Art of the Indigenous-Native Peoples”

At the Organizational level

  • Continue practical Subregional integration efforts through the organized mobilization of Indigenous Peoples, particularly those living on the national borders, with a program adjusted to each circumstance

  • Establish a regular annual meeting

  • Draw up regulations, with objectives and a working program

  • Incorporate more brothers working with indigenous knowledge and art, particularly the wise carriers of age-old knowledge (Yachak, Yatiris, and Paccos, etc.)

  • Incorporate other natural allies, like representatives of peoples of African descent

  • Maintain and exercise indigenous autonomy in our work and establish multiple forms of coordination and organization.

  • Make the “Community of the Knowledge, Wisdom and Art of the Indigenous-Native Peoples” a vehicle for plural and open debate as an example of the future plurinational state.

  • At the Academic and Research Level

  • Organize and develop an indigenous professorship in the Andean Community Member Countries and offer it to their universities and institutes.

  • Become involved in the organization of university curricula in order to incorporate the wisdom, knowledge and art of indigenous peoples.

  • Schedule a plan for research on and application of indigenous knowledge and plan its development and start-up.

  • Schedule debates on structural, immediate and everyday issues of our peoples’ situation.

  • Program intensive training courses in indigenous knowledge, wisdom and art by offering fellowships to young indigenous leaders and intellectuals connected with their organizations.

  • Prioritize oral-auditive knowledge (audiovisual support) over written knowledge (printed-written-phonetic).

  • Program the decolonization and decodification of issues, concepts and symbols of our indigenous reality.

  • Assume the commitment to study and deepen the cosmic vision, knowledge and know-how of the indigenous Andean-Amazon peoples.

  • Systematically organize knowledge experiences in general.

  • Support the efforts at interrelationship among and integrate the academic and educational institutions being created by indigenous peoples (universities, School of Government, institutes, etc.)

  • Support the creation of indigenous healing centers and houses.

  • Support the establishment of teaching centers of the indigenous school of knowledge and actively influence schools in general.

  • Support the establishment of indigenous art centers for the teaching, exhibition and marketing of indigenous art.

  • At the Publication and Communication Level

  • Create an Editorial Fund for the publication and massive dissemination of indigenous works through books, CDs, DVDs, and audiovisual tapes (TV, Movies, etc.).

  • Safeguard the property rights of indigenous people, inasmuch as publications referring to indigenous peoples have served as the basis for intellectual piracy.

  • Disseminate and exchange information aimed at the integration of peoples through teleconferences, magazines, newspapers and other media.

  •  

    Lima, July 6, 2007