A ATALAIA DO NORTE, BRAZIL (AP) – In 1976, Binan Tuku ventured to meet a Brazilian government’s expedition on the banks of the Itui River in a remote area of the western Amazon rainforest. After some initial suspicion, he and his father accepted machetes and soap in what was the beginning of the Matis tribe’s […]
LADARIO, Brazil One year ago on a Friday afternoon, Bruno Pereira, an expert on Indigenous peoples, and Dom Phillips, a British journalist, motored along the Itaquai River in far western Brazil, to the settlement of Ladario. The line of wooden houses here marks a boundary between the sprawling Javari Valley Indigenous Territory…
Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were last seen on their boat in the Javari Valley, where they disappeared. This region lies along the border between Brazil and Peru, home of the world s largest indigenous community and criminal gangs