Amazon Region Bibliography

Acknowledgements to Survival International

• “Brazil Moves to Prevent ‘Massacre’ of Amazon Tribe” (Guardian, August 9, 2011)
• “Guard post for uncontacted Indians over-run by ‘drug traffickers’” (Survival International, August 8, 2011)
• The Economist, “Trees or Oil” (July 4, 2009): “Though half of Ecuador lies in the Amazon basin, its rainforest is shrinking faster than in neighbouring countries (by 1.67% a year). It has been ravaged by logging, poachers and oil extraction… Native tribes have been uprooted, forced deeper into the forest or have disappeared” (p. 47).
• New York Times on Brazil’s Kamayurá people (July 25, 2009):
• “An Amazon Culture Withers as Food Dries Up: A Tribal Extinction is Feared as the Rainforest Falls” (pp. 1, 8).

Brazil

• Dramatic Video Shows Attack on Indian Village (June 2008)
• “Bishop warns of genocide of uncontacted Indians”
• Survival International on the threats facing the uncontacted Indians of Rio Pardo, Mato Grosso State, Brazil:
• Rio Pardo: “Top officials accused of genocide of Indians”

The Tupi-kawahyb people

• “Brazil Fears an Isolated Indian Tribe Has Been Victim of Genocide,” by V.A., Brazzil Mag, 1 December 2005
• Piripkura people of Colniza district, Mato Grosso: “Real Risk of Genocide for Uncontacted Tribe” (Nov. 20, 2008)
• Rondônia: The Uru Eu Wau Wau people: “Massive Invasion of Isolated Indians’ Land”

Akuntsu people

• “Tribe’s Last Six Survivors Speak of Genocide”
• “The Akuntsu’s Last Dance” (narrated by Julie Christie)
• Tanaru Indigenous Territory: “Land for Last Survivor of Unknown Amazon Tribe”

Ukarangma people

• “Arara Indians under ‘threat of extinction’”
• “Arara Indians Fight Bullets and Bulldozers”
• “Our land is now an island and we are surrounded”

Colombia

• “Nukak Tribe: ‘We are being wiped out’”

Peru

• 15 isolated or uncontacted tribes

Early Twentieth-Century Amazon

• The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man’s Battle for Human Rights in South America’s Heart of Darkness, by Jordan Goodman (New York, 2010).

News stories

Ecuador

• Waorani people
  • “Indigenous leaders recalls ‘terrible consequences’ of first contact” (Nov. 28, 2008)
• Aboriginal films from around the world