
CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOL NURSERY
July, August and September 2023
The Hãmhi project built three School Nurseries: one in the Maxakali do Pradinho Indigenous Territory, another in the Maxakali de Água Boa Indigenous Territory, and another in the Aldeia-Escola-Floresta. In addition to transforming the project into an educational initiative, in collaboration with the Maxakali schools, their teachers, and students, the nurseries ensure the project's sustainability by producing seedlings, based on the creation of a network of Tikmũ'ũn women seed collectors. The school nurseries are managed by 16 nursery workers who currently receive a research grant from the CNPq (National Council for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources), as part of the project "Singing and Healing the Land: Pedagogical Frameworks for the Training of Tikmũ'ũn Agroforestry Agents." The construction of the nurseries had the technical collaboration of the team from the Elviro Pereira de Souza State Forestry Institute, Landerson Gomes Galvão, Pedro Laconi Cardoso Ramos, the commitment of our team of agents, nurserymen and advisors, the village communities and the support of the city councils of Santa Helena de Minas, Bertópolis and Teófilo Otoni.
The leaves are coming
The Yãmîy are coming
flying come
coming down come
The leaves are coming
The Yãmîy are coming
flying come
coming down come
The leaves are coming
The Yãmîy are coming
flying come
coming down come
The leaves are coming
The Yãmîy are coming
flying come
coming down come
The leaves are coming
The Yãmîy are coming
flying come
coming down come
Coming and stepping on the ground
Came and stepped on the floor
And arms in the air baaaaaaaaa
And arms in the air baaaaaaaaa
(Song of the Yãmĩyxop)
The leaf is the song of Yãmĩy!
This is the leaf!
The song is over all the leaves,
is so that the tree seedlings can grow faster,
it is for the yãmĩyxop to walk through the forest eating ripe fruits:
papaya and other types of fruits: xagãy, xuyãm, ingá, papaya and wild mango.
In the past, they had other types of mangoes and today they only have the ones that white people produce,
but there is the bush mango.
My father and mother told me that they ate many types of fruits that were found in the forest.
They were eating different fruits,
wild yams,
food of the Tikmũ'ũn!
Manuel Damásio's exegesis on the song of Yãmĩyxop on the sheet











