Frantic efforts to find the Ava-Canoeiro before their land is flooded…
Return from Extinction
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This film tells the remarkable recent history of the hiding Panara tribe, who are descended from a large tribe known in the 18th century as the Southern Kayapo. They were attacked so often by the Portuguese that they were believed to have become extinct. But they fled into the deepest part of the forest, and killed all strangers on sight.
With extraordinary footage in the 1960s, we watch as Claudio Villas Boas, and his team from Brazil's Indian Protection Service, make the first patient attempts to contact the Panara before a planned development road exposes them to 'civilization'. Then, in spite of Claudio's efforts, we are witnesses in the 1970s as the tribe is virtually wiped out by diseases contracted when two huge roads opened up their lands to an influx of rubber tappers and gold diggers. With the aid of his brother Orlando, Claudio Villas Boas manages to fly 79 survivors out to the Xingu National Park.
Now twenty years later, the Brazilian government has recognized the legitimacy of the Panara's claim to a half million hectare block of their ancestral homeland, and they are going back home.
'Documentaries do not come better than this.' The (London) Times
'Adrian Cowell's trilogy was 30 years in the making and it's been worth the wait...the denouement plays out like Jacobean tragedy and...is no less gripping.' Time Out
'A powerful documentary series about the Amazonian Indians, may prove to be one of the last records of their way of life.' (London) Independent on Sunday
'An extraordinary achievement.' The Geographical
'The most successful of the three (programs), both in presenting the story of the people of the Panara tribe...and in placing it in historical, cultural and political perspective. It is highly recommended for classroom use in discussions of the current state of indigenous peoples, human rights, and globalization -- particularly in anthropology courses.' Alan Duben, Human Ecology
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Main credits
Cowell, Adrian (film director)
Cowell, Adrian (commentator)
Rios, Vicente (film producer)
Rios, Vicente (director of photography)
Other credits
Cameraman, Vincent Rios; film editors, Terry Twigg, Keith Miller, Caleb Menges; music arranged by Marlui Miranda.
Distributor subjects
Amazon; Anthropology; Brazil; Developing World ; Forests and Rainforests; Geography; Globalization; History; Human Rights; Humanities; Indigenous Peoples; Latin American Studies; Social JusticeKeywords
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Thirty years ago I started working with a
series of cameraman trailing behind with
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our equipment as we filmed unknown tribes
in the modern reign of the Amazon forest.
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The first of these tribes
became locked into
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a strange confrontation with the
Brazilian Explorer sent to contact them.
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For three months I have
100 left in this hammock.
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And I\'m certain that behind
the screen of forest
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Somewhere in the maze of vegetation
there is a pair of watching nights.
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They may stay for years.
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The waters unseen myself I\'m speaking.
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But eventually something must
call the water from the trees.
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Turning the key to these resident mind.
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Drawing the unknown man into our world is
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an age-old process but a process
which is about to vanish forever
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Does it say that
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these women of the chaconne tribe of just
had their first encounter with our world.
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They were paid his prostitute with
old clothes and their husbands.
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Who did the selling tell what
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happened in the 19 sixties
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Claudio Villa sparse was
the leading explorer of
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Brazil\'s Indian protection service.
To get it out
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Tragedy of most Indian
tribes is that they lust for
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the products of our world and
hate them at the same time.
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I get back.
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No no no no no no no no no no no.
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It\'s my duty to protect the vulnerable
tribes from the white invasion of Amazonian
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To leave them here means bullets Cephalus
and extinction within five years.
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So I have persuaded them to come with me
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into the shingle reserve. No.
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With his brother Orlando
cloudier brought together
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a dozen tribes in the safety
of the Xing Gou reserve.
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But cloudier knew that even
the reserve was not safe.
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The government\'s new capital
Brasilia had been moved
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1000 kilometres inland
to open up the interior.
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And a new road to develop the forest was
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straight at the reserve.
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It would cut the reserve in half.
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Then open up the forest of
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a completely unknown tribe to protect
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them Claudio had to reach
the Tribe before the road.
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So Claudio travel to the zookeeper my
tribe the neighbors of the unknown group.
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Cloudy whose mission was to find out what the
Zuckerburg I knew about the unknown try.
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Engines lover party and arrival.
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Any sort of excited
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Claudio first contacted the
Zika my tribe in 1953.
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The zoo customize greatest enemies with an
unknown Fried who they cooled Creon across R3.
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But later we would find out that the
tribes name for itself was panoramas
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The reason I\'m here is to try
to understand why did sukha
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My have just attack the Indians
in the unknown area to the west.
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Inside the group they\'re loving
generous and affectionate.
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But outside is the jangle and
everything hands and is hunted to live.
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The Indian must kill. And he
kills daily without compassion
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Is the economy of the jangle
it\'s the rule of existence.
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It\'s an instinctive automatic reflex.
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Well this is the barrier we must cross
constant on the full reign of clubs.
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The reign of clubs was matched historically
by a storm of sorts and muskets
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The European approach to
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the American Indian for
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centuries European colonists attacked
Indian villages to enslave that people.
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From this sorta brutality many tribes
fled into the Amazon forest to hide.
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Change came with the Brazilian soldier marshal
Ron Don who had an Indian grandmother
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He was sent to explore
Amazonian at the beginning of
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this century Rwandan ordered
his officers to help
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the Indians and founded the
Indian protection service under
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the pacifist principle die if
necessary but never shoot an Indian.
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Many of the men he sent out were
in fact killed by Indians but
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an extraordinary idealism imbued most of
Rwandans followers including Claudio.
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They developed an elaborate
technique of approaching
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dangerous tribes usually with
the help of a neighboring tribe
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In the same way Claudio had
traveled to the Zuckerman to ask
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them to show him how they detect
their neighbors the panorama.
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It was guns against pose a
massacre with 20 panorama killed.
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Each Superman showed cloud GO what
he\'d done in the panorama village
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The children they had captured.
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I listened to accounts
of pointless slaughter.
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But if I stop listening
I realized that this is
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a world unaware the murder
and crew T can be wrong.
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Watch their treatment of
the capture children.
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White men can be just as crew
but they would never let me see
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It was this scene which strengthen
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Claudius resolve to help the
child and his panorama tribe.
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The child must go back.
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The fighting must stop.
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But the first problem
is to find the Village.
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In 1967 this block of forests
between the rivers Shingo and
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Taba Shas was the largest genuinely
unexplored part of the Amazon.
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But with the road approaching cloud you
knew it was vital to contact the panorama.
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No white man had ever
crossed this forest because
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the panorama killed all strangers on-site.
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Finally they found a village
that panorama fled to
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After the attack
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For me this is the true goal of the jangle
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a fragment of mankind buried
since the beginning of time.
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What right have we to trouble
those tiny dots below
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They don\'t want us.
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But if the road got depth-first
it would bring disease and from
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bitter experience Claudio knew that Indians
have no resistance to our epidemics.
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To protect the panorama
Claudius plan was to take
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an expedition from the Shingo
reserve up the magnets our river
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Carter trail to the next rhythm strip
and canoe down to the panorama village.
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I have been doing this
kind of things since 1945.
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First you get the compass trace ahead of
the main party and then move along it.
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See lonely. We average about a mile a
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day behind a larger party
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widens the trail for the supplies
to follow and full protection.
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We work now armed groups
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After two months and 50 miles the
expedition broke through to the next river.
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Here cloudier hotel to build
his air strip and canoes.
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What Claudio could not have guessed with
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virtually the entire forest
of the panorama would
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soon go up like this in the massive
deforestation of the seventies and eighties.
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More mainland supplies flew in
with Orlando Claudius brother
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Because of the Panera no can do why
Indian ever moved on this river before.
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This is the village Claudio
found from the Earth.
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I think we\'ve got the growth rate of
visiting that huge bright discussing.
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The tracks are the older the villages
abandoned but a small party of
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Panorama had returned recently
universally agreed upon.
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And when it clearly can only pick.
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One can take only a few political overtime.
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We found it
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This is the one that basket
is for carrying food.
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So they were here last night.
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It looks as if they are just ahead of us.
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Obviously cloudier heard interrupted the
panorama as they were packing to move.
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These baskets change our whole strategy.
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An Indian has few possessions.
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If he leaves them he\'s really frightened.
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And if he\'s that Friday anymore pressure
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we\'re driving to the
other end of the forest.
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From now on we can only wait and
attract the Indian two was worth here
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by so deep that it justifies the loss of
a stone axe that takes months to grind.
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Isn\'t the old fear of the
arrow against the bullet
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What\'s the problem with
this panorama whose queued
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F31 they\'ve seen for hundreds of years.
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They have that for not
only never met strangers.
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They have no experience.
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Thus such meetings are possible.
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As long as I am here I
am calling to them in
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the emptiness of the jangle my
human nature is a magnitude bears.
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In this way human groups
I\'ve always been drawn to
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other groups till after thousands of years
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all mankind lives in a world civilization.
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Nothing separates us.
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But this meaningless screen of trees.
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But then for 10 thousand years did
anything more divide the rest of mankind.
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Values expedition in 1968 is remembered
differently by the panorama tribe.
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Well Molly view where we first
watched cloud you arrive
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The old man said I\'ve come
to kill us for the young men
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like me said The Lord savage they
have come to get to know us.
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When the plane first flew over the
old man said It\'s a shooting star.
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The young men looked up
and said it\'s the white.
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They want to get to know us.
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The old man said it\'s going to do something
terrible and they shoot arrows at it
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We didn\'t know but I suppose
it was cloud you in the plane.
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They threw down balls knives beads.
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The beads were very beautiful to us.
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The young men like the
presence and weren\'t afraid.
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The old man said they\'re going to kill us
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Anthropologists have since discovered
that the Panera descended from
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a large tribe known in the 18th
century as the southern KaiA PPO.
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They were attacked so often by the Portuguese
they were believed to have become extinct.
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In fact the survivors
must have fled nearly 300
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kilometers north to hide in the
deepest part of the forest.
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It was this fear of the
white man inherited from
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their ancestors which led the
panorama to flee from Claudio
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It was k component or Cohn who
first saw the whites on the river.
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At first they said Can it be some of our
people than they said no it\'s the whites.
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They have come onto our
river to invade our land.
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The white schools to them
but they were very afraid.
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Afterwards k-component per core
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the beach to warn one
village after another.
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And everyone became very afraid.
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But it was very frightened
whites have arrived.
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They said you.
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So we all went far away.
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But afterwards we said
let\'s go back and look.
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And we found all the presence.
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The whites had left it as a pooping.
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We threw the pots away and we smash the
mirrors because we didn\'t understand them.
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But we like the knives and axis.
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So we left our clubs is presence
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We\'ll deal with that is made.
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And we do not keep him even if I don\'t
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want to
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have a young man
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understood they\'re leaving things to tame
us because they want to get to know us.
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But the old man we\'re afraid
and sent to take nothing
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As the panorama rejected all contact
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the government ordered the
expedition were to be withdrawn.
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But three years later the
situation became critical.
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When two roads were driven through
the territory of the panorama.
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In a desperate attempt to protect the tribe
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Claudio let another expedition
ahead of the road builders.
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This time he got closer and
buy a bitter twist of fate.
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This expedition may have brought about
exactly what cloudier wanted to prevent.
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We found the path that cloud
you was opening and followed
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it cloud you had left
knives in many places.
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And now everyone to come.
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Steel is revolution in the forest still
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acts as a plantation many
times faster than a stone axe
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Knives were very useful
to us and everyone wanted
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one closure call to us.
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Boy I\'m not savage.
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Come take these things.
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He was very near and he
nearly made contact with us.
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But we were frightened and runaway
was after that everyone got sick.
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Days in between all the children got sick.
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People couldn\'t stop coughing.
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Routine he put popup
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tampa bomb market in many groups went into
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the forest to get away
from the fever peel down.
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They all died in the forest.
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Cpu CPU they died on the
path and just laid there.
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The Qin BOT.
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We were too weak to bury our dead card.
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Could be
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killed theta upon two.
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You put a more bw per year.
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Capitalism came down to non kill kill.
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Kill. Kill the molecule not
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only are you more ln of coupon.
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Coupon coupon that too
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That\'s going to comedy docket.
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Think Obama Obama.
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But
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nobody knows how
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many died in that diseased wilderness.
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But the survivors did not
lose their desire for knives.
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And this led to their first
contact with cloudier.
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The whites had many boats
on the river and went
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off people started to get better.
We went to look at them.
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Gao Ju came in one day
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He called to us in the forest
Hoyi the Whites are not wild.
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One of us stood in front
and took a knife from him.
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Everyone wanted nice So
we came and took them.
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And said we\'ll tell the
people in the village.
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The Whites are not here to kill us.
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That was how cloud you tameness.
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But then we heard thunder and people
asked are the whites throwing things.
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It was The Road
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When Claudio protested against the road
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the government replaced him
as head of the expedition.
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Prospectives who had ransack
the rest of Amazon for gold
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and diamonds now began to
enter panorama territory.
00:33:34.180 --> 00:33:40.050
We saw the prospective scum but we
didn\'t understand what they were doing.
00:33:56.620 --> 00:34:02.490
They dont GAAP are beautiful river
the dirty bit and spoiled it.
00:34:23.530 --> 00:34:29.310
The prospectus seem very
greedy and very wild
00:35:10.090 --> 00:35:16.234
The perspectives with a face that
civilization presented to the panorama.
00:35:16.235 --> 00:35:21.240
What seemed to hypnotize
them was the road itself.
00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:32.460
They were drawn to it despite
constant warnings about epidemics.
00:35:34.180 --> 00:35:37.624
People asked for food on the road
00:35:37.625 --> 00:35:41.880
sick and died in.
00:35:44.260 --> 00:35:50.580
So many died the government was
shamed into sending Claudio back.
00:35:54.190 --> 00:35:59.010
When cloud you came back
he said you\'re all dying.
00:36:03.460 --> 00:36:11.460
Cloud you said you people
are nearly finished. The.
00:36:37.720 --> 00:36:44.790
So clouds are called us to leave our land and
go to where we would be safe from sickness.
00:36:48.040 --> 00:36:51.874
An estimated 80% had died.
00:36:51.875 --> 00:36:56.850
The survivors were flown out
to avoid total extinction.
00:37:03.880 --> 00:37:07.279
I was very sad to leave our land.
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:12.570
With Cloud just said many white people
had arrived and it was safer to go.
00:37:17.260 --> 00:37:21.090
I had a grief for our land.
00:37:25.240 --> 00:37:30.990
I wanted to watch over our
forest to see the game.
00:37:34.780 --> 00:37:42.780
The 79 surviving panorama arrived in the
Shingo reserve like refugees from a war zone.
00:38:14.650 --> 00:38:19.740
Shattered remnants of a once proud people
00:38:27.820 --> 00:38:33.919
For the next 20 years the panorama
lived in a land not their own.
00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:38.190
But against all odds they were to survive.
00:38:44.560 --> 00:38:49.549
By 1997 most of the panorama
territory was cut by
00:38:49.550 --> 00:38:54.409
roads and deforested by ranchers
who believes the tribe extinct.
00:38:54.410 --> 00:38:57.619
But in fact the panorama
has been revitalized by
00:38:57.620 --> 00:39:02.190
their new chief occur
and are now going home
00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:13.480
Again i is this someone else\'s
land was seeing. No it isn\'t.
00:39:14.255 --> 00:39:21.139
What was my land the new town of
multiplies built over the village where I
00:39:21.140 --> 00:39:28.294
was born in the town of Bay
Shore towards where I hunted.
00:39:28.295 --> 00:39:32.310
All the trees had been
thrown down and consumed.
00:39:35.950 --> 00:39:40.714
While we were away our beautiful
gardens were destroyed
00:39:40.715 --> 00:39:48.715
I will do then what do they have
stripped the earth naked looking for
00:39:49.160 --> 00:39:54.679
gold this is why I\'m angry
00:39:54.680 --> 00:40:01.230
or was it someone else\'s land they
have eaten up No it was my land.
00:40:01.240 --> 00:40:08.850
But on the headwaters of the river more than
a million acres of forest still remain.
00:40:19.060 --> 00:40:24.060
Occur plans to reclaim it for the Panera.
00:40:26.500 --> 00:40:34.230
And advanced party has already built a village
and asteroid and planted gardens for food.
00:40:48.700 --> 00:40:51.724
After two decades of absence
00:40:51.725 --> 00:40:57.000
the whole panorama tribe is now
flying in a plane load by plane load.
00:41:04.810 --> 00:41:07.170
Hi
00:41:47.050 --> 00:41:54.829
But everyone is happy to
be back in our own land.
00:41:54.830 --> 00:41:57.634
Before we were living in bad land
00:41:57.635 --> 00:42:01.429
we searched for a long time
before we understood what to do.
00:42:01.430 --> 00:42:06.090
That\'s why we\'re happy and are
going to care for our forest.
00:42:20.410 --> 00:42:24.919
This done celebrates a
remarkable success story.
00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:30.060
They left looking like survivors
from a Nazi concentration camp
00:42:41.410 --> 00:42:45.799
The only tribe in Brazil which
lost so many people that
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:50.700
contact that the courts ordered
the government to compensate them
00:43:19.210 --> 00:43:23.449
Now that with the strength
and confidence to fight for
00:43:23.450 --> 00:43:25.110
their home
00:43:30.110 --> 00:43:36.669
or homo
00:43:36.670 --> 00:43:39.964
got to prep with am Pelopia pumpkin oh.
00:43:39.965 --> 00:43:43.384
No. Now I\'m content to live here.
00:43:43.385 --> 00:43:46.384
I\'m going to care for
my people and our land.
00:43:46.385 --> 00:43:49.894
I was very sad when our
land was stripped of trees.
00:43:49.895 --> 00:43:51.889
I went for my rivers.
00:43:51.890 --> 00:43:54.749
For my forest tool
00:43:54.750 --> 00:43:56.554
Do young gay yeah.
00:43:56.555 --> 00:43:59.659
Don\'t buy in Xing Gou.
00:43:59.660 --> 00:44:02.459
What I wanted was bigger trees like here.
00:44:02.460 --> 00:44:06.769
Day after day Joe my daddy
cool that ugly forest
00:44:06.770 --> 00:44:11.640
of shrinking those thin trees
made me feel bad. You killed my.
00:44:12.550 --> 00:44:17.160
God-given healthy good healthy kids.
00:44:21.370 --> 00:44:24.859
Claudio was 20 to come but there\'s
00:44:24.860 --> 00:44:29.880
a new generation helping the
Panera reestablish themselves.
00:44:43.150 --> 00:44:49.384
The anthropologist who has done the most
work with them summarizes their situation.
00:44:49.385 --> 00:44:52.729
It appears to be totally
exceptional and remarkable
00:44:52.730 --> 00:44:56.264
story of resistance which
it is but really it\'s it\'s
00:44:56.265 --> 00:45:00.249
much more like the story of the
rest of the Indians in Brazil in
00:45:00.250 --> 00:45:05.149
196830 years ago when the contact of the piano
was starting unions had Indians Brazil had
00:45:05.150 --> 00:45:09.769
no land legally demarcated and
often and now the government
00:45:09.770 --> 00:45:16.140
recognizes their claim to about 11% of the
national territory or 20% of the Amazon
00:45:19.330 --> 00:45:23.704
The challenge now is to find a
sustainable economic alternative
00:45:23.705 --> 00:45:27.979
possibly Brazil nuts rubber handicrafts.
00:45:27.980 --> 00:45:31.429
Artisan r3 forestry management
maybe eventually eco
00:45:31.430 --> 00:45:37.680
tourism that will allow them to begin to
meet their own needs for market goods.
00:45:39.010 --> 00:45:44.599
No longer pure beings of the forest
self-sufficient from their harmony with it.
00:45:44.600 --> 00:45:49.759
The panorama today have to harness the forest
to produce the income that a market economy
00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:57.760
demands upon r. So thank you.
00:45:58.370 --> 00:46:01.290
So why don\'t we put a pool
00:46:01.860 --> 00:46:09.860
I might put up but
00:46:13.060 --> 00:46:21.060
because the
00:46:23.770 --> 00:46:25.029
panorama obviously
00:46:25.030 --> 00:46:28.880
trying to preserve their
culture and way of life.
00:46:58.510 --> 00:47:04.890
Equally. Obviously they\'re becoming
more Brasilia though in their own way.
00:47:30.340 --> 00:47:35.419
For instance why does the referee
where his revolver only for
00:47:35.420 --> 00:47:43.420
the women\'s matches today
00:47:44.870 --> 00:47:46.789
the Panera have solar panels
00:47:46.790 --> 00:47:51.900
a video system and a copy of the
first film we made about them.
00:47:52.030 --> 00:47:58.260
They now seem relatively adjusted to
their new lot in the modern world.
00:48:31.720 --> 00:48:36.619
But what they can never reclaim
is the uniqueness of a society
00:48:36.620 --> 00:48:41.790
which has evolved on its own without
influence from the rest of mankind.
00:48:45.550 --> 00:48:50.719
And mankind in turn has lost some
of its richness and diversity
00:48:50.720 --> 00:48:54.199
. As Claudio said at the time for
00:48:54.200 --> 00:49:00.964
me to go to the jungle a
fragment of mankind buried.
00:49:00.965 --> 00:49:03.660
Since the beginning of time
00:49:32.290 --> 00:49:34.470
And they
00:49:42.670 --> 00:49:45.359
were
Distributor: Bullfrog Films
Length: 51 minutes
Date: 1999
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 9-12, College, Adult
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