...is made up of 1.8 billion year old sandstone. It comes in different colors and shades, textures, temperatures, smells and manifold degrees of pleasure and pain. Regardless, to secure it as Yekuana, not for ownership but simply as a 'tomorrow', the community of Jodoimenna has asked that Me, Val and our three students help define and demarcate every layer of the landscape (GIS), including the sacred ones (hilltops, passage ways, streams and song-lines). With this mapping technology they will claim usufruct (from spiritual to physical 'usage') to the Chavez Government and obtain subsidies for a sustainable future: aid for medicine, sustainable animal husbandry, an economy of scope... Word is out they will succeed.
Image (c) Val Druguet.
