Awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Tonacci toured the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Brazil between 1979 and 1980, interviewing indigenous leaders and recording the meetings. The idea was to use the mobility afforded by video to spread among different people statements and images of conflict experiences that might contribute to raise awareness of the physical, cultural and territorial violation suffered by all of them. The project was interrupted for lack of funds and also, according to Tonacci, due to his insight that the image of the resistance of indigenous peoples should be constructed from their own perspective rather than from his. Running to almost 20 hours, the source material was recovered and digitalized only in 2014, a raw testimony and document of a learning process that happens through listening and waiting.
