“So, yeah, do not know if you has already realized, we Tupinikim, we can’t talk, you know, we are a people who don’t come and go talking talking, you know, you understand? We study so people to start talking, I think if you talk to my uncle there, you gonna see how he is, you know, he gets more listening right after he starts talking.
And we Tupinikim, we are warlike people, you know, we, we fight for what is ours, right, a just cause, our, you know? And we .. a .. Indians are a warrior and if we indulge not easy for anybody, you know, anybody. We have purpose and our goals when we can not ours, we did not stop in, you know, we always work on a just cause, a cause of ours.
And I as Tupinikim, I … I … I always I will fight for my people, you know, I will always fight for my people, I will always take my shirt I’ll get it, I’ll go out wearing the headdress, I’ll paint me understand, I will show what I am, you know? And I’m not ashamed to speak that I am indian, I get anywhere, no need to speak up that they do identify me, you are an indian, aren’t ya? And I: am, why? Oh, no, nothing… understand? Because there’s some people who do not like indian, right, tended? And people do not like, right there I say it, even I am indian, just, you know. The thing is I, with great pride and much love, I always say that to my children, with my oldest daughter, I talk to her, you don’t have to feel shame not Mariana, speaking that you are indian is not because you reaching the people you have identified that you are Indian, you will deny a thing you are? No father, but I did not do it. So, I know, but I’m talking to you. Because has some indians, I’ll talk, I’ll be honest, has indias who denies that is indian, understood, has Indian who say is not Indian, you know. but the people Tupinikim is so, is a warrior people, a people fighter. What I have to say is this. And for my people, I really fight. ” [Sic – Translation adapted]
