Describing Issues of Tribes
What are there problems
Almost all Indians’ problems revolve around land such as outsiders either
want their land, or something on or underneath it. The key threats are a
massive boom in oil and gas exploration, rampant illegal logging and
the rapid spread of ranching and farming.
Uncontacted
Brazil is home to more uncontacted people than anywhere on this planet. It is now thought that approximately 80 groups live in the Amazon. Some number several hundred and live in remote border areas in Acre state and in protected territories such as the Vale do Javari, is on the border with Peru. Others are scattered fragments, the survivors of tribes virtually wiped out by the impacts of the rubber boom and expanding agriculture in the last century. Many things, such as the nomadic Kawahiva, who number a few dozen, are fleeing loggers and ranchers invading their land.
As pressure mounts to exploit their lands, all uncontacted Indians are extremely endangered both to violent attack (which is common), and to diseases widespread elsewhere like flu and measles, to which they have no immunity. |
Land Life
Indian tribes whose lands are respected generally thrive. But in Brazil Indians have no communal land ownership rights meanwhile in Peru and Colombia many villages secured land title decades ago, but governments and companies regularly ride rough-shod over their rights.
Five centuries after the first Europeans entered Amazonia, many Indians are still dying at the hands of outsiders, and entire tribes continue to face the threat of elimination. |
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