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Mbyá Community History of Puerto Bertoni. Bicentennial


Mbyá community of Puerto Bertoni is located within the premises of Scientific Moises Bertoni Monument, in the district of Presidente Franco, about 26 kilometers from Ciudad del Este and currently has 10 families totaling approximately 70 people.
Puerto Bertoni's community is like many other companies mbyá, struggling to preserve their own culture ( the mbyareko ) and to recover what is rightfully theirs: their tekoha, facing lot of adverse situations, mainly the lack of private lands that will assure a dignified and secure.
The existence of this community is directly related to the presence of Moises Santiago Bertoni scientist in this area, since it was founded by the descendants of the mbyá who worked as laborers for the wise Swiss. When Moses Bertoni reached the area in year 1 888 and in the midst of hardship and deprivation was established in the virgin forest began to study the nature and contact with indigenous mbyá, who lived on the river Monday and Acaray , these ancient people, but did not stop to interact with their tekoha of origin, settled in the woods near the house of Bertoni, forming a new community, but rooted mbyareko to the natives who lived near rivers.
However, the formation of this new community, whose members worked as laborers to the wise, did not for the simple will of the native and was a contact that they sought, rather it was a relationship of convenience since by that time began the intensification of logging, the mate and the high forest palm Paranaense part of the Paraguayans and foreigners, not just facts put in serious danger to mbyá, but also other native peoples who inhabited this area, such as the Ache and Ava, who almost disappeared. But most have not gone as individuals, these events marked the end of life alone and secluded in the woods, the end of life for centuries defended weapons in the hands.
When the operation intensified, many Mbyá left the area and spent the other side of Paraná, in the Argentine territory and who decided to stay in their ancestral land to meet new contacts, had to accept a lifestyle very different from carrying on their ancient tekoha.
Among the changes they had to accept we can mention the wage labor for white employers , among whom was Bertoni, the reason for it, as noted above was to seek the protection of the sage Swiss to a strong and massive penetration of herbalists companies to its territory. Thus, Bertoni's guarding the other white and they worked on their farms and gave them some information he needed for his studies.
However, the security provided by the patron-peon relationship ended decades ago for mbyá Puerto Bertoni, since the death of the scientist, the other patterns are not fulfilled his promise and since the early 1960, when there was colonization of the forests of Alto Parana forest patterns sold to others, with the natives in, without any concern for the plight they were going to run them.

Source: Research conducted by Jorge Contreras and Yovan Ponte. 2011.

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