Brazil Found the Last Survivors of an Amazon Tribe. Now What?

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Brazil Found the Last Survivors of an Amazon Tribe. Now What?

Pakyi and Tamandua are the final known isolated members of the Piripkura people. They are posing a tricky challenge for Brazil.

www.nytimes.com

 

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Read this the other day; pretty interesting.

One of those two guys murdered his sister or niece's two children.

 

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The fight is led by the Penços, a family that runs the state’s largest limestone mines and owns nearly half the Piripkura protected area. Pakyi and Tamandua do not need so much land, they argue, and the government is violating their rights in a veiled effort to stop logging.

The family’s patriarch, Celso Penço, had bought cheap tracts of rainforest from the government decades earlier. When he died in 2016, he left 770 square miles of the Amazon to seven heirs, an inheritance half the size of Long Island. Two-thirds was inside the Piripkura protected area.

The Penços argue that the boundaries are arbitrary and outdated, based on traces of shelters found decades ago. Instead, Pakyi and Tamandua should receive 150 square miles, they say, or a sixth of the current protected area. “Not that we believe these two Indians need that much space,” said one of the Penços’ lawyers, Rodrigo Quintana.

"Those guys don't need all that land" says the family who owns 770 square miles of land.

"The boundaries are arbitrary and outdated" says the family that got to buy land with arbitrary borders at an arbitrary price even though other people lived there first.

The fact that they don't even see the hypocrisy tells you everything you need to know about rich people.