The Earth is our Mother

The film presents two Indian tribes in South America with different ways of survival. The Motilon Indians, living in the lowland of Venezuela are facing their ethnocide. They are living in an anarchistic structure with non-coersion and equality. They have not been able to organize themselves and to fight against the intruding white civilization. The Archuaco Indians, living in the mountains in the northern part of Colombia, are a hierarchic structured society, well organized with leaders and spokesmen. They have been able to throw out catholic missionaries and have established their own independent education. The director, Peter Elsass, has followed the two Indian tribes in the fight for survival during 16 years and has stayed eight times among them.