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THE MATSÉS MOVEMENT

 

E-mail: info@matses.org

 



 














 

 

 

Matsés Teachers Elect New Board of Directors
 
The General Assembly of the Matsés Movement (formerly the Movement in the Amazon
for Tribal Subsistence and Economic Sustainability - M.A.T.S.E.S.) has elected a
new Board of Directors in a meeting held in Iquitos, Peru in the Amazon River
Basin. The chief of the Matsés Native Community was present at the meeting in
which the Matsés teachers elected a 100% indigenous leadership for this
non-profit association. 

 
Peru sells mineral rights of Matsés lands to oil company
 
The Peruvian government's Peru Petro has awarded Pacific Stratus Energy oil
concessions within the lands that the Matsés tribe holds legal title to.  The
contract gives the Canadian oil company the ability to explore for petroleum on
the Matsés titled lands and start drilling oil wells. The adverse effects of
drilling for oil on the Matsés lands could put the survival of the Matsés
culture in jeopardy.
 



News!

The Matsés Movement has been featured in the cover article for Cultural Survival
Quarterly Magazine.  This special issue is about Land & Resources in the
Americas  and features the Matsés Movement in the article,  A Forest of Their
Own. 


 
New Adopt an Indigenous School Program
 
Our association, the Matsés Movement, is launching a new project to assist
indigenous schools obtain basic school supplies such as notebooks and writing
materials for both students and teachers.  To learn more about this new program,
please see Adopt an Indigenous School. 

 

The primary mission of our non-profit association is to offer assistance to the
Matsés indigenous communities so that this native Amazonian tribe can conserve
their native culture and indigenous lands in a sustainable and autonomous
manner. Please note that the Matsés Movement does not solicit nor accept
donations from the public.  Small donations do little to help and can create
internal conflicts.

 

The Matsés Movement is distinctive in that it is the first non-profit
association whose directors are entirely from the Matsés tribe itself rather
than being controlled by outsiders.  In the past, various NGOs composed entirely
of non-natives acted as self-appointed representatives for the Matsés tribe with
few benefits to the Matsés people.  It is our belief that with education and
experience, the Matsés nation is capable of determining its own future,
independent of the wishes and interests of outsiders.  The Matsés Movement is an
association whose members are entirely composed of individuals from the Matsés
tribe offering assistance to the Matsés people. 

 

The origins of the Matsés Movement can be traced to a grass-roots movement by
the Matsés people which originally established this nonprofit association in
2006 as the Movement in the Amazon for Tribal Subsistence and Economic
Sustainability - M.A.T.S.E.S.  To understand  how the Matsés Movement came about
in the first place, you need to understand the present situation of the Matsés
tribe.  There are fourteen different communities within the Matsés Native
Community in the Amazon Rainforest and living conditions are much the same as
they were before the Matsés tribe made permanent contact with the outside world
in 1969.  There are few phones, no public transportation, and almost no
governmental projects of any kind there. Little medical or other aid is being
provided by the Peruvian government. Incredibly, there are hardly any health
care professionals present in the entire indigenous reserve.  The only thing
that could be remotely interpreted as significant governmental aid is the
presence of teachers whose salaries are paid by the Peruvian Ministry of
Education.  There is little travel by the Matsés outside the reserve.  However
each year during the school summer vacation, the teachers are brought to Iquitos
by the Ministry of Education where they take classes on bilingual education.  It
is from the teachers that our organization was formed. The Matsés Movement is
truly a grass-roots organization in that the Matsés people themselves formed
this organization through the participation of their teachers.

 

The Matsés Movement is a  non-profit association situated in the Peruvian Amazon
working for the future of the Matsés and other indigenous people and is
independent of the Matsés Native Community. 

 

For more information on indigenous Amazonians, please visit Amazon-Indians.org,
Amazon-Tribes.com, Amazonz.info, Matses.info, and Friendsoftheamazon.org.  For
information on the indigenous people of the Andes Mountains, please visit
Incatrails.org and Camino-Inca.info.  To learn about Iquitos, Peru where the
Matsés Movement is located, please visit the Iquitos News. 

For additional information on our non-profit association, please call or write:

The Matses Movement

Address: Calle Los Lirios No. 126, Iquitos, Peru

Telephone: (+ 51) 965-000650

E-mail : info@matses.org
 

 

 



 


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