Interesting but sad. Reminds me of a book I read as a kid about the last of an Indian tribe. His name was Ishi.

I wonder if maybe they had tried to teach him the local language it would have gone better?

California, 1911. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ZyEGlqioA

Damn thats sad...actual human endlings.

Very interesting.
They seemed unable and/or unwilling to adapt, even murdered a man with a machete.
It's hard to grasp that they didn't pick up on the language others spoke either. Were they that primitive or maybe mentally handicapped?

Whatever the case, it's a cruel fate.

Thank you!

Obviously they ran out of people to eat. Scientists...pfffffft

I feel like Aura did adapt somewhat, he probably understands a lot more Portuguese than the documentary lets on. However, watching this I feel like they both had a severe mental break caused by whatever they experienced which may explain why he keeps repeating the same story.

I tried to imagine myself in the same situation: surviving (his equivalent of) an apocalyptic event, getting picked up by the people/beings that look strange and don't understand anything I say (and who are likely the ones who triggered said event), the only point of contact I had dying, having to learn to trust people I don't understand, knowing I'm the last of my people... I wouldn't be right in the head either.

Indeed, did why only they survive? Survive only why they did?

Knowing how tribes started being massacred by mining companies, narco-traffickers, yet even more importantly settlers seeking land grants, his words and even the machete story make perfect sense. The Brasilian government had started giving settlers land, as long as they cleared it (the clearing being done via fire, and had at least 1 cow to make it official). The many beards, ie any of the above, who make a loud noise, ie gunfire, and the presence of smoke, which could be from intentionally set fires (s) fit perfectly as a retelling of the usual Indigenous v forces of progress in Amazonas tale.

The cow is a major clue, and he seems to understand that these strange other people had cows. It almost seemed to me as if he was relaying that the birds were making a racket when they approached. The fact that he's talking of many of his people dying makes sense that they could quite possibly have been murdered. What this doc fails to explain to people is that #1 there wasn't always a FUNAI trying to preserve Indigenous people, and #2, that there had been many Natives murdered-it just gave the brief mention of iron and the railroad. I'm not sure why he's mentioning the wild boar, but they are seen as THE fiercest and most dangerous wild animal. There must be a reason he's mentioining the jaguar as well.

As someone who has spent significant time in the Amazon with tribes and understands competing forces there, these are my 2 cents. Disclaimer-I did NOT spend time in the specific area these 2 were found in.

Thanks for this take. Indigenous cultures the world over have be decimated for colonial profit is a sad and familiar story

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.

endling?