Thursday, December 3, 2009

Peruvian Amazon tribe close to extinction


Lost tribe attacks small aircraft with bows and arrows. While neither completely isolated nor completely ignorant of the outside world, some tribes choose non-contact, occassionally making an exception for an intrepid anthropologist or disease carrier.

(AFP) The Candoshi people in Peru's northern Amazon jungle are close to extinction from an infection that has gone unchecked since 2000, tribal leaders and health officials said Tuesday. "My people are suffering; we're in real danger of extinction," said Candoshi chief... More>>
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His American studies began at Santa Rosa Junior College in 1993, and he graduated from Sonoma State University in 1999, the first man from his tribe to... (Santa Rosa Press Democrat‎).

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