"Peoples of the Water The River Indians" "Fleur de Lampaul has crossed the Atlantic, 17 days since Bissau, in Africa." "After a year spent with the Imragen people of Mauritania, and the Bijago of Guinea-Bissau," "Fleur and her crew are in French Guiana, to meet the Wayana and Kali'na Indians." "Since August, the ship awaits her new crew of eight children, who must come from mainland France." "Arriving on board, the first task of the children is to get used to life at sea." "I haven't really learned yet, I'm still learning." "I studied the ropes earlier." "Everyone should learn the function of the ropes, from one end of the boat to the other." "Before any manoeuvre, it's necessary to start up the engine." "Here, you look at the state of the charger." "This is the turbine..." "Then, you open the tap fully." "Yes." "Yan, the only child of the former crew teaches Delphine, youngest of the group and passionate about ecology, the rules of the startup." "Then the turbine..." "Pay close attention to all the gears, because it's a windlass which is very powerful," "If you put your finger there, you'll lose your whole arm if there's nobody to stop it." "Fabrice, the first mate, warns against the dangers of using the windlass." "The anchor is raised, we hoist the flags, the departure approaches." "What he's going to have to do is, to hoist the wooden part which is called the horn, here." "We'll bring it up at an angle, at the top of the mast." "It's a manoeuvre that we'll do together." "It'll be necessary to pull simultaneously together on these two halyards." "Jacques, the captain and the adults on board, had a lot of work during the stopover in French Guiana." "The Fleur suffered a lot from the rains and humidity... after the Africain drought." "It was necessary to completely repaint her and to recaulk the hull." "Everyone's been awaiting this moment with impatience, we're going to sail." "The first navigation takes us to the Salvation islands, last vestige of the infamous penal colony of French Guiana." "First night." "For some of you, this night is going to be the first night at sea, on a ship." "On a ship, there are certain safety measures to be observed." "The greatest risk is to fall into the sea, so at night it's even worse than the day because... it'll be very difficult to find you." "For security, you each have a watch jacket, like Jerome there." "The watch jacket has buoyancy, so if you fall into the water, not only will it keep you warm but it will also make you float." "If ever there are people who are sick, it can happen, because now the sea is very calm but it's not always so, if you're sick it's always better to come up here in front." "To vomit at the back it's always out of sight of the people who are on watch." "And you don't always have time to put on your watch jacket." "To sail, you first have to overcome sea sickness to carry out the chores:" "deck cleaning, cooking for 15 people, washing up, housework and of course the watches, day and night." "Hi, sleep well?" "Yes." "Will you take the helm?" "Yes." "Here on 140." "Okay." "No, on 120, sorry." "There are currently no ships." "We're running a little better than yesterday." "Philippe, the intellectual of the group takes the first watch of the morning." "Sophie will relieve him at sunrise." "Sea voyages leave some free time, and everyone hurries to read the many books and accounts... written on these accursed places." "For now, it's the beginning and we're still not too fully into the rhythm." "Well, that comes little by little, we know well that there's a lot of work, so we just get on with it." "We do about 2 to 3 hours of school work a day." "Otherwise, we also do other brain work, because there's not only school work." "And we work alone and so the school work gets done a little faster, because we don't discuss it with a whole class, and there's not thirty of us talking about the same thing." "You're all alone so it can go a little faster." "For problems, we have adults on board to help us." "Otherwise, outside of school we also have the writing for the book." "Which already takes a lot of time." "and of course we're also working on the film and on the reports." "We try to learn about where we are." "We're going to Devil's Island, where Dreyfus was deported as a political prisoner." "After the 2nd World War." "Before." "No, no, after." "Before..." "And Delphine, we're studying the life in the cells?" "Yes." "What they felt, what they thought." "There's Devil's Island where Dreyfus was." "Yes." "And behind, is St. Joseph island where the punished were imprisoned." "We can't see it yet." "The Islands are in sight." "3 pebbles resting on the ocean, a fly speck as Albert Londres said." "The children rush to discover these places that Albert Londres," "Papillon and others, describe as a hell." "After their first sail, the new crew prepares to explore Devil's Island and St. Joseph Island." "Delphine, Anne-Claire, Jerome and Philippe, approach the notorious island where they locked up the trouble makers." "At the time of the prison between 1850 and 1950, there wasn't a single tree on the island so that no raft could be built." "Since 1952, when it was closed, the vegetation has invaded and destroyed a good part of the prison." "To better soak up the spirit of the place, the children have decided to bivouac in the cells." "In these cramped cells, without windows and unhealthy, few prisoners resisted disease and madness." "So?" "So what's it like, standing in there?" "I don't know." "Can 5 of us sleep in there?" "We could also sleep in the corridor." "Well, I won't sleep at all." "Why's that?" "Because this doesn't inspire me with confidence." "Why?" "I don't know, I don't like..." "After a night of rain, they have a little idea of how the convicts lived, day after day." "Humidity, mosquitoes, diseases of all kinds and deadly insects." "These half starved men weren't allowed to lie down during the day." "The power of the vegetation allows us to imagine... the wildlife that came to cavort in the cells." "Even this tree seems to want to escape." "Normally for a prison sentence, someone must, a guy must do something wrong, and then they lock him up to punish him." "While here, they locked up people, and left them to die." "In fact it was really immoral, it was really to get rid of them." "When you know that here they didn't live more than two to three months," "I mean, they didn't really intend, that later they'd return to France." "I never would have expected or imagined... that a country like mine, France, mother of freedom in the world, which gave birth to the rights of man and of the citizen, could have, even in French Guiana," "on a remote island in the Atlantic, the size of a pocket handkerchief, a system so barbarously repressive, as is the imprisonment at saint Joseph." "Often when we see these cells, we still have a sense of fear." "We think about all the convicts who lived in there." "I think... it was quite inhumane." ""For the first time I saw the prison, there they are, 100 men, all sick, those who are standing, those who are lying, those who moan like dogs"" "It still feels sometimes that France has shame, because the prison was an important period of history, it existed for 100 years, and it's not in the school curriculum, in history or anything." "So we can still say that this represents for France a sense of shame, and what we don't want to talk about." "They weren't afraid, between freedom and prison, there's only death there." "There's no peace." "In April 1895, a man named Alfred Dreyfus, traitor to his country, disembarked." "From then on, this fly speck, lost in the ocean, would become as famous as the 7 wonders of the world." "14 hectares for an inmate, intense surveillance, inhumane, and a case that would divide France," "Devil's Island became a legend." "Here I am in front of the Seznec memorial." "At that time, he was accused of murder," "Now we know he was innocent." "And he was one of many innocents who were condemned to the penal colony." "[Guillaume Seznec MARTYR" " INNOCENT] There was Dreyfus, Dieudonné." "Before coming here, my grandmother told me about it, because she had followed the debate, but it's funny nevertheless to be here." "In addition, I'm from Brittany and Seznec was a Breton." "So it means something." "Although the landscape of the Salvation Islands is... rather idyllic, the coconut palms, the rocks, the sea..." "Me, I can't forget all the past of the islands, all the men who passed through here, and who died in inhumane conditions." "It's really a rotten past." "Besides, I don't really see how it's possible to forget." "Fleur is in French Guiana, moored in the mouth of the river Maroni, by the sea." "To go into the heart of the forest, we've left the Fleur." "By small groups, we reached the village of Antecume-Pata, where the Wayana Indians live." "This village is situated on an island in the middle of the Maroni river, which marks the border with Suriname." "Immersed for time immemorial in one of the last primary forests of the planet, the Wayanas essentially live off the resources of the forest." "When I was in France, and I knew that I was going to go among the Wayanas," "I didn't have much idea, about their behaviour and character." "It's their kindness that I discovered later." "I thought they'd be a little more reserved." "In fact when we arrived, the children especially, who were very spontaneous, and they started asking, what's your name?" "They pronounced our names in a funny way with their accent and everything." "And then they gave us nicknames." "This is how the friendship began, from the first day we saw that they were really interested in us." "I think they weren't disappointed, because... we talked together like this." "A Wayana told me:" "this is the first time that I've seen palassissis who are so interested in us." "Palassissi is the name for white people." "Barely having arrived, we accompany a group... that's going hunting and fishing for a week in the forest." "They all have nicknames here." "For example, Mahiomet means," ""frog that sings in the rain."" "Mimisiku is "cat piss"." "Ayouweb is "lizard poo"." "They've also given us Wayana nicknames." "For example..." "Edouard is called Aloued, it means" kwatar poo"." "Mine is Morak, meaning "mosquito" because I've been devoured." "Ocutipark is a frog." "They love to laugh." "They enjoy teasing." "At the slightest touch, at the slightest little thing, they laugh." "Going up river, a few iguanas hunted along the banks, will serve as the first meal at the bivouac." "For the children, it's learning how to set up the hammocks." "This camp is often used by the inhabitants Antécum-pata... when there's a shortage of fish or game in the village." "Mimisikou prepares his arrows." "To cross the forest, the only navigable routes... are the rivers that radiate throughout French Guiana." "Before the escaped slaves taught them to build canoes, the Indians travelled on foot, felling trees to cross the river." "Gymnotes or electric eels, and Aimara, a kind of large carnivorous fish, are the species most fished with a bow." "By line, the most common fish are catfish and piranhas, which contrary to the legend haven't eaten any of us." "Mimisiku is an Indian," "I've lived amongst his family for three weeks, three and a half weeks." "He has a great sense of humour." "And he likes to talk and have a laugh." "He's nice, you know." "We get along really well." "He's a very good hunter." "The few times I went hunting and fishing with him," "He was really impressive." "Mimisikou, he gets all the shots in the head." "What surprised me a bit, is how he sees the fish." "He was 20 meters from the fish." "He saw it." "Then he slowly approaches, he draws his bow, and then launches the arrow which flies underwater." "In French Guiana, there are 450 species of fish." "In France there's only 60." "A fine example of the biodiversity of the Guianese forest." "It's weird because living at home, I only see parts." "So I can't imagine at all the animal itself." "Here, there are lots of different kinds of fish." "I don't know, but here you see your meal from beginning to end." "You cut open the fish, you scale it, you clean it, gut it, and cook it, etc..." "Are you going to smoke it, Coumaya?" "Yes." "It doesn't taste the same as when you buy it in a shop." "It's fish, it's just food." "The boucan: as at Antecum-pata, and in the forest, you can't lug your frige with you, so you can't keep the fish more than a day or two." "So when we left the forest, we made a sort of small table, out of branches, underneath we made a fire." "We laid the fish on the branches, so they get smoked, and we can keep them for up to a week." "It's the beginning of the rainy season." "In 2 months time, the paths will be impassable and the river dangerous." "The most important thing is to monitor the boucan." "The fish mustn't get wet, and the fire must stay alight no matter what." "6 o'clock in the morning, the camp awakes." "Already, Mimisiku is chatting with the birds." "Parrots are the preferred pets of the Indians." "The river is a favoured meeting place." "The water is very warm." "We bathe and wash there several times a day." "It's level varies throughout the year." "During our stay, it's almost at its highest, making it easily navigable." "Is this comoussa Ayouweb?" "Yes." "Comoussa." "So then..." "Two, two." "These two?" "Yes." "Like this, like this, after that..." "Okay." "The Wayanas have taught me that I should be available to others, because they're always available to show me something, while I," "I never have the time or I wait a little bit and stuff." "In fact I never listen." "They listen to others, they like to talk." "They're much less pressed for time." "Us, we're always pressed for time, work, stress and everything." "While they're much more relaxed, slower in their actions, and they're doing better than me." "It's a backpack, right?" "Yes." "A backpack?" "This?" "Yes." "We put the game in it..." "Baboon, iguanas..." "No, not iguanas." "And there you have it." "Is it good?" "Super, it's great." "The Wayanas have a great knowledge about nature, and know how to use the wealth of the forest." "These vines are used to practice a particular type of fishing, the nivrée." "Crushed, they produce a toxic juice which intoxicates the fish, and allows them to be easily caught." "The katouri or green backpacks can weigh up to 50 kgs, when loaded." "The Wayana men and women are very resilient, and can carry them over very long distances." "...I'm hungry, I'm hot." "...I'm exhausted." "Here?" "Yes." "That's what it takes to really live with the Indians." "It's not by watching them do it, you really have to participate in everything they do, even if it's a pain in the ass like this." "We get a certain satisfaction afterwards." "That feels good." "I was exhausted," "I don't know, I had maybe 30 kg on my back." "I was sweating, I was hungry and thirsty, and then there was Yayouweb who told me:" "only another 3 minutes, 3 minutes to go." "Yes, yes..." "Every 5 minutes, I asked him how much longer it was." "I was exhausted." "After this apprenticeship to life in the forest, the children, tired but happy, return to the village to live amongst a family, and discover Wayana society." "7 o'clock in the morning, the children from surrounding villages arrive at the village of Antecum, after going down the rapids." "It's not uncommon for them to come to school with their books wet, after being overturned going through the rapids." "The children of Fleur, have lived in the village for 3 weeks now." "It's wash time." "We're going to bathe in the rapids with the 6 year olds." "There was nevertheless something strong between me, and the children who were with me." "They were clinging to me and I was holding on to them." "And it's a mutual contribution." "It's a friendship between two people of different worlds, and of the same world even so." "And that's strong for both, I think." "It's certain also, that we don't bring them only good things, because we arrive among the families with our bags, with things they don't necessarily have, and this is only attracting them even more to head towards the Western world." "We participate a little bit also in this temptation." "At the school, two teachers provide education from kindergarten to age 13." "Those who want to continue their studies, go to boarding school at Maripasoula, further down the river." "Fishing, we'll see how you write it." "Go ahead." "Ah, very good." "Alaou and Toumis are fishing in the river." "What did you put, you others?" "So then." "Who made one mistake?" "Two mistakes?" "The first two years, teaching is done in Wayana... to help the children to integrate into the school system." "Quietly." "Quietly." "We're going to get up." "You take the targets." "You take your bow, you take the bows okay." "Gym class." "Archery is still widely practiced although hunting is now done with a gun." "Alright, let's start the contest." "I score 2 points when the arrow sticks in, 1 point when it touches, and ½ point if it almost does." "Personally, I haven't tried archery, because... among the Indians, it's normally the boys who do archery." "Me, I stayed mostly with the women," "I cut up the fish, I grated the manioc," "I did the women's work." "Aliémé, zero." "For their part, the adults go to work in the forest." "Antecum-pata village was created by André Cognat in the late '60s." "This Frenchman chose to join the Indians of the Amazon rainforest, to adopt their way of life." "The village of Antecumpata is situated in a very attractive place." "That's why I chose the place." "It's true that regarding agricultural land, we have some difficulties." "It has rapids that are adjacent and close to the village," "The land is pretty bad from an agricultural point of view." "So we can't grow manioc." "So we have to go relatively far." "Because formerly the village could also move, according to the terrain, but now we have a village that is relatively fixed, because it's important, because there's a certain infrastructure." "So, we're obliged to choose agricultural plots... a little bit everywhere and sometimes a bit far." "Since then, he has married and has two children." "Here, the soil is very poor, all richness is contained in the litter," "In reality, that's it, all these leaves and branches that fall and will rot... and then decompose quickly." "So you see that there's not very much." "Here, we come to a place where there are large seeds." "And some can't germinate if they haven't been eaten by an animal, because the gastric juices will attack the shell and allow them to break down." "And immediately after, we arrive at the first roots." "There's some insects." "So here we see that the soil is alive." "There's quite a lot of humus." "Here, there's a layer where the soil is rather brown, because it contains a lot of organic particles, this is where we find the most rootlets, and then below it, the more we dig," "the more we arrive at a soil of very poor earth, which no longer contains fertile elements." "And it explains why the forest is destroyed so very quickly." "If all the plants are cut down, all this will be stripped bare by the rains in 2 or 3 years, very quickly." "And afterwards, only an extremely poor soil will remain." "In this difficult environment, the men of the village help each other." "This is one of the rules of the social life of the Wayanas." "Here, we're now cutting down the bigger trees, because a few days ago, we cut down all the bushes." "The abattis is a vegetable plot that'll be used for... the agricultural production of families." "For the abattis, you need to cut down everything, then you must burn everything so as to allow the sun through, so that the sun reaches the manioc and everything you're going to plant." "If you plant in the undergrowth, it will grow poorly." "It's cut, then allowed to dry and then burned, and the burning enriches..." "provides enrichment to the soil, this allows you to plant, to have more or less normal vegetable plots." "This work must be renewed every 2-3 years, because of poor soil and insect attack." "The soil is quickly washed away by the torrential rains in the rainy season." "All of the good layer goes very quickly." "You have to..." "change consistently." "And normally you shouldn't resume using... a former abattis before at least a decade." "The primary forest is the result of millions of years of evolution." "It's there that you have diversity, that you have species that could lead to new drugs, that we have all the heritage, the flora and fauna." "You can have 400 species of trees per hectare." "This is the kind of forest that must be protected." "The indigenous people are a special case, basically, they've evolved together." "They're here, it may even belong to them to some extent." "They don't do damage anyway." "It's like the Indians here." "I imagine that the damage is quite limited, and... if occasionally they shoot a spider monkey, it's not this that's going to endanger the spiders monkeys." "It's not they who destroy the forest anyway..." "These people have lived for a long time here, often in balance with it." "Until now, in the Amazon rainforest, the greatest damage was caused by gold miners and ranchers." "It's not because it's green and it's a forest... which is worth protecting." "It's the primary forest that must be protected, and the difference is subtle when you don't know." "Gaël and Liam study with Daniella and Vincent, the regeneration of the primary forest." "Here, they're carrying out a transect." "On this abattis, abandoned 17 years ago, they're studying the species that have grown back." "This secondary forest will take at least 400 years... before becoming primary forest again." "The greatest difficulty is to determine the species removed." "There, you mark DA 267." "The 267th plant in this transect which is 10m by 100m, no 2m by 100m." "So I take a sheet of newspaper," "I write DA and the number of the plant." "I put the leaf inside." "Generally, for example for the seedlings, since they have neither fruit nor flowers, and their bark is still not very distinctive," "doing analysis will be very difficult and we must try to find their name." "Okay." "The Wayanas take many things from nature, their food, their housing, their clothes." "And I believe that they can still do it now, because they continue to respect it." "They understand nature, and if they don't destroy it, it will give them almost everything they need to live." "And there where I live, in Lyon, it's the city, buildings and cars." "I've never used nature for anything, and I never really knew what it could bring me." "There's still one over there." "The first one you took." "Really?" "Yes." "At the entrance of the village." "...Are there 12 or 13?" "2... 8... 12, 13." "Mimisiku is still a Wayana... who remains somewhat traditional." "He prefers me to be with Coumaya, his wife, and that I do womans work." "He treats me more as a Wayana woman than a white person." "After the physical work in the morning, the afternoon is usually spent on crafts or housework." "Everyone ends up in the shade of the carbet." "Mimisku, for example, specializes in basketry." "He makes things like this." "All the men of the village can manage... to make for example, a catouri like this, to carry game in the forest, the small everyday things like this." "But complicated basketry like that one, there aren't many men who can do it." "Among the young people, it's already in decline, because... because they're already moving towards white civilization." "So they don't know where to place themselves, they don't know much what to be interested in." "The last to still be interested in practicing basketry, they're aged about 18-19, but the boys of my age don't know how to do it." "Those among them who have completed a school education, must now find a new way of life." "If I had money, I'd prefer to go to another city, for example Cayenne, Paris..." "In fact you want to travel." "Yes, to travel, to buy things." "Couyamane specializes in producing symbolic and religious objects." "Here he refurbishes the traditional headdress... worn during the initiation ceremony." "It's constituted of feathers of many birds and especially the Macaw, the best-known of the multicoloured parrots." "He tries it on the head of his grandson." "Two generations, two lives, two cultures, already so different." "Having lived among the Wayanas, in general, you could tell that they had pride in themselves, of who they were." "While the young, now," "I have the impression that they're ashamed, of who they are and they want to get away." "This is the last day, so we're sad to leave, we find it difficult to part from them." "It clearly shows that they're people of exceptional quality." "I think that what remains..." "is their friendship." "Fleur de Lampaul has been in French Guiana for 3 months now." "She's moored opposite the Gallibi village of Coswin." "The Gallibis are Native Americans, the original inhabitants of Guiana." "The village of Coswin is one of the most traditional." "It's also the most isolated, located on an island between France and Suriname." "I often get letters from friends, who tell us, "you're with the savages"." "Now, there are no savages." "It's true that before leaving on the Fleur, the Indians..." "I didn't know much about who they were, in fact." "I wasn't even sure that they still really existed." "It's true that now I have a completely different picture of them, compared to what I had before." "This isn't because in France, I go to school every day, that I know more things than them." "If you dropped me in the middle of the Amazon rainforest," "I wouldn't have a clue what to do." "Liam and Gaël have an appointment on the other side of the delta with Yanki, an old Galibi born in France." "He chose to live in Surinam refusing welfare, and subsidies of all kinds." "Like many old people, he doesn't like life in France, and prefers a modest existence that provides him his fishing and his abattis." "First task, to set the net of 400 m." "which he usually handles alone." "I do a week at home, then I fish a little, twice, once." "Every other week?" "Yes." "It's not every day that I fish." "And will you return home?" "No." "Why?" "The slackers." "The slackers?" "The French, they're lazy?" "Ah yes." "While waiting for the fish to find the net, they're going to collect clams at sea, on a sandbank that's exposed at low tide." "Yes, there aren't many of them." "There remains a few." "Yes a few." "Before, I was a football player, yes, football player when I lived in Galibi." "I have my family there." "You told us that you came to look for your wife." "Oh yes, look for my wife here." "When there's a woman..." "it's nice... yes." "Like that, it's the life that." "You're French?" "Yes." "Your passport is what nationality?" "No, I don't have a passport." "No passport?" "No, I've no passport." "But before, I had a passport..." "I forgot to renew it." "The fishing is sparse." "According to Yanki, it hasn't always been the case." "It's difficult to control the borders, and a number of industrial trawlers come to lay their nets near the village." "...too much work." "It's full." "You pull well." "When there's no more fuel we rig a sail made out of rice sacks." "Before, there were a lot of fish?" "Yes, before there was a lot of fish." "And why's there no more fish now?" "The trawlers... they come..." "The nets are 50 kms, like that in the water." "like this, all the fish are gone." "Today, Yanki doesn't bring back fish to sell." "Only enough to feed his family and guests for the day." "At yanki's, Gaël makes use of the hammock together with the monkey." "Madame, she understands well." "Back on Fleur, Yanki tells us of his regret of an era, where solidarity and sharing were the rules of the community." "Meanwhile, Edouard accompanies Roger and Didier... for some very special fishing." "First, it's necessary to go away from the village if we want to find some fish." "To do this, we go back up the branches of this large delta where the sea meets the river." "It's a veritable maze and you have to know the tides... to access this backwater." "Arriving at the fishing site, we first look for some bait." "Almost all seeds of this tree contain larvae which the fish are fond of." "You don't always catch what you want, and it's a caiman who has the misfortune to take the bait." "It'll be saved from the grill by its size." "In the early morning, after a bivouac under a mosquito net, we leave for the special fishing of a rare fish in Guiana, the attipa." "Lepapa finishes making a basket that he started in the night." "That's it, you see." "Near my home, there's a forest," "I've never noticed the way trees breathe, the life in a forest, and I did in Guiana." "We're looking all the time to go far away to do something, while you may very well do it close to home." "Are we going to clear it?" "Yes." "We'll clear it, and then after we've cleared everywhere, then we'll lay the net." "After 2 hours of walking in the swamp, we arrive in an undergrowth... that's indistinguishable from the rest of the forest." "A pool appears." "We place the net over it." "The attipas are there in large numbers." "To adjust the net," "Roger dived into a water that none of us would enjoy." "At the same time he collects some fish for lunch." "I've never fished," "I was never interested in the kinds of fish, all this, in the technique of fishing, and I discovered that I could very well have done it." "Take a line, put a hook on the end, then go get the fish." "And I realised that I'd never done it... because for us it's a little easier." "When we buy fish, we aren't concerned with who caught them, how it happens." "This fish is not covered with scales but with bony rings." "It's a very old and highly coveted species." "They were once found at sea but they've disappeared." "Some specimens would have been deposited here in the forest during high tides." "Protected from their main predator, man, they were able to reproduce." "One can very well remain Indian in the 20th century, with pants and a t-shirt, and then going to work and earning a wage." "One can remain Indian at heart, by believing as an Indian of the past, by reacting like an Indian." "And then we can't say that an Indian is no longer an Indian... because he wears pants and a t-shirt." "On the way, we see the last convict transport ship, which is gradually turning into an island." "Roger and Didier are happy, their fishing allows them to go to the market of Saint Laurent du Marony, higher up the river." "For us, eating the atipas, it's to afford a little luxury." "But it's for its quality." "The attipa is something that's endangered." "Before there were some on the coast, but now they've disappeared." "It's the custom, I've been raised with it." "I know that it's very good." "And I know it's very rare." "Here, here, attipas." "..." "Here, here, attipas." "And most importantly it will allow them to retain their tradition." "With that, they can remain where they are." "It'll keep them away a bit from the city, the modernization of the city and all that." "If the concept of sharing is now set aside, it's because money has actually become more important here." "I earned 30 Francs." "Altogether?" "Altogether 200, 250..." "We earned from the fish." "And now we'll go to buy gas, some rice, bread and sugar, salt and that's it." "And then what?" "And then there's nothing left." "If we're not careful, we'll choose a catastrophic way of life for the people." "Either you prefer to effectively preserve a heritage, or you opt completely for the consumer society." "Already here, there are problems of drugs, delinquency... it's still on a small scale." "There are things that show we should actually remain optimistic." "There's still an awareness at the level of identity, of the culture." "But one shouldn't say either, that it's the culture, the claim to identity which will do everything." "Fleur will now leave French Guiana to reach Panama, for an encounter with the Kuna Indians." "Subtitles by Oliver Sanderson"