Who we are
What is it?
The National Articulation of Ancestral Warriors Women (ANMIGA) is a large articulation of Indigenous Women from all biomes in Brazil, with knowledge, with traditions, with struggles that add up and converge, bringing together women mobilized to guarantee Indigenous rights and the life of our Peoples.
Who are we?
ANMIGA is composed of indigenous women, originally from the Earth. We know that the root of Brazil comes from us, from the womb of the Earth and from our ancestors. The Mother of Brazil is Indigenous. Brazil never existed and will never exist without us. ANMIGA is this articulation of rooted women, a national reference that dialogues and is connected and rooted within our bases, strengthening all women who are at the head of organizations being inside or outside the territory.
We understand the importance of political articulation of water-women in constant movement in the stream of struggles. We are the seeds of our ancestors, those who even before the social movement existed already had the traditional and ancestral movement that strengthens us and is present in our territorial body, reflected in our biomes, in our waters and in the seeds that paint, adorn and feed our bodies.
We are because our ancestors were. Indigenous women have always been present in movements: whether in more local movements on the ground of the territory or at the national level. Women in the communities: midwives, medicine women, shamans, leaders and cacicas. Since the 1980s until today.
Timeline
Creation of the first publicly registered indigenous women’s organisation. Association of Indigenous Women of the Upper Rio Negro. (source ISA)
1st National Conference on Health and Women’s Rights (1st CNSDMu) with the participation of indigenous women.
Quitéria Pankararu, active in the Constituent process.
– Baía da Traição/PB elects the first indigenous woman Iracy Cassiano as mayor of the municipality.
– Azelene Kaingang, first indigenous woman from the South region to participate in the United Nations.
Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast, Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo (APOINME): Maninha Xukuru Kariri was the first to coordinate the organisation, and was one of the main driving forces behind the creation of the articulation.
Creation of the National Council of Indigenous Women (CONAMI).
– 1st National Conference on Policies for Women
“The Conference was the stage for important articulations. The first one to be considered refers to the Alliance of Afro-Indigenous Kinship. It was a moment of great emotion in the Final Plenary when the pact between these ‘sisters’ who united around proposals for common guidelines for indigenous and black women was read. During the voting of the final proposals, these warriors sat side by side. Together they approved issues to consider the cultural differences of the indigenous peoples and to repair the crimes related to the slavery of the population”.
Law 11.340/2006 – Maria da Penha – an important achievement in the fight against domestic and family violence against women.
