Yoichiga rü Ipichiga

Abstract

Hugo Armando Camacho introduce en Español a la abuela Juana Alonso López. La abuela Juana Alonso López relata el origen de Yoi e Ipi y cómo ellos pescaron a su gente. Ngutapa y Mapana pintaron a sus hijos —Yoi, Ipi, Aikuna y Mowacha— con huito a los quince días de haber nacido. Después de pintarlos, arrojaron el afrecho del huito a la quebrada Eware, y éste se convirtió en peces. De allí fue pescado por Yoi el pueblo Magütá. La abuela también explica la organización social, territorial y clánica: cómo Yoi e Ipi organizaron a su gente según sus clanes, enseñándoles sus normas y cómo cuidar y respetar el territorio. Antes de la llegada de los europeos y de los peruanos, todo el territorio era indígena. Hugo Armando Camacho introduces elder Juana Alonso López in Spanish. Juana Alonso López narrates in Magütá the origin of Yoi and Ipi and how they fished out their people. Ngutapa and Mapana painted their children Yoi, Ipi, Aikuna, and Mowacha with huito fifteen days after they were born. After painting them, they threw the huito residue into the Eware creek, where it transformed into fish. From there, the Magütá people were fished out by Yoi. Elder Juana also recounts the social, territorial, and clan organization: how Yoi and Ipi organized their people according to the clans and taught them their rules, such as caring for and respecting the territory and nature. She narrates that the people who long ago were taken out as fish by Yoi later populated different places: Bogotá, Tabatinga, Manaus, São Paulo, Chimbote, Tarapoto, Caballococha, Yanayacu, among others. Bogotá itself was a place of arrival from the Cotuhue River. All of that territory formerly belonged to the Magütá Indigenous people, the people of Yoi and Ipi. There they lived, organized themselves, and also waged war with blowguns, spears, and bows to defend their territories. Over time, Spaniards and Peruvians arrived, and the communities were displaced and forced into hiding.