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rednrithmetic t1_izzhacl wrote

You're welcome. By about the 90's, the world started growing pretty concerned how much rainforest was being burnt down in Amazonas. I'm glad Brasil now has FUNAI to try and serve some of the needs of Indigenous people, though the amount of territory FUNAI oversees is understaffed, predictably, as the Amazon is huge. A tribe I was staying with in a different Amazonian region had just lost a huge number of members due to malaria a week before I arrived. All the burning of the jungle had caused mosquitos to suddenly concentrate in their territory and thrown ecology out of whack. This tribe- a ways from Maranhao where Aure and Ara hail from, consider the jaguar their ancestor-its a revered important animal central to their culture. I wondered if Jaguar was as important to their tribe, or what to interpret from him including in his story he kept telling.

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