Ubuchúa Chedo Cojñoi
Ubuchúa sings about Cojñoi:
(Cojñoi, whose name means white person, was taken captive when he was about 10 years old and he grew up with the Ayoreos.)
Cojñoi came to me in the night. He said: “Ubuchúa, sleep with me.”
But I didn’t want to. I said: “Go away. I won’t sleep with you.”
Cojñoi said: “Come on, sleep with me. You’ll go to another young men like myself, but you won’t come with me.”
“I won’t sleep with you because you are a white person. People will say that white people embrace me.”
But he went ahead and embraced me, but I refused him. I really missed my Ayoré relatives. I said: “I’m going to go to my friends in the Cochocoigosode camps.”
Cajérode came to me and said: “Ubuchúa, come with me to the camp and be my wife.”
But I didn’t want to be with him and I cried. So, he left me. I said: “You have children, and I don’t want someone that has children. I would have gone with you if you didn’t have children.”
Ubuchúa – Tobité, Bolivia – 1965.
Transcribed by: Joyce Davis Buchegger.
Translated to English by: Maxine Morarie.
