Oral narrative of the Kokama people of the Tauaru community

revitalize, transmit and propagate

Abstract

The oral narrative of the Kokama people is transmitted from these writings in order to value the cultural and ancestral knowledge of the people. These are stories that come from the collective memory of the Kokama elders. The ancestral tales were transmitted by the ancient Kokama scholars of the Indigenous community of Tauaru, belonging to the municipality of Tabatinga, Amazonas, located on the Triple Frontier: Brazil, Colombia and Peru. The Kokama people lived and experienced a past of denial, discrimination, oppression, domination and tyranny by the rubber bosses who acted in an oppressive way in the region of the Solimões River. Currently, communities are working and organizing themselves from the perspective of cultural revitalization and fighting for the rights to belong to their original demarcated lands. This work seeks to bring reports of the narratives of the Kokama people in the voices of the former residents of the Tauaru community, considering the importance of these records, and the cultural and traditional memories are being lost over time, mainly with the passage to the spiritual plane of ancestry of these knowledge holders. For them it is something that happened and happens in a real way. The supernatural phenomena that were witnessed by several residents who live in that locality; something, many times, without explanation, but which, in a way, causes fear among the people of that region. The supernatural interferes directly in the daily lives of these residents, they are part of the experience, which promotes a different lifestyle. Everything revolves around these facts, causing residents to have schedules to work, fish, hunt and avoid going out at night for fear of witnessing such supernatural phenomena. In this way, the purpose of these writings is to expose this literature in detail to propagate and preserve the cultural knowledge of this people.