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Villagers along the muddy banks of the river Curanja in the remote Peruvian Amazon reported frequent observations and even raids by a mysterious isolated tribe that lives deep in the rainforest. These isolated people rely on their extensive knowledge of the ecosystem for food, medicine, and property; Now, the pressure on the forest can grow them in the outside world. Events along the Curanja are the last lingering echoes of the clash of cultures that began in 1492, in which about 50 million to 100 million indigenous people were killed and entire cultures have disappeared. Anthropologists and officials are wondering if they can reduce the human cost of that act. Lacking immunity to common pathogens requiring large tracts of intact forest for their way of life, the isolated tribes are some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
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↵ * Photography by Jason Houston, along the river Curanja, Peru. Minutes of this package was supported in part by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, with logistical support from non-profit organizations of the Upper Amazon Conservancy and ProPurús.
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