Here was the heart of everything. It was all the judges really needed to understand. That as the government flew into our villages to trick us into signing documents, into giving the rights to our territory to the oil companies, the hunters were tracking animals in the forest, the women were in their gardens, families were splashing in the water, grasping for wild cotton. And the villagers who had signed the documents, pressed their fingerprints onto the pages, had thought it was just a way to get a free lunch, a piece of bread and a soda pop; they hadn’t understood that they were surrendering
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