Cuiabá stadium, Mato Grosso state Tribes who live in this area - TopicsExpress



          

Cuiabá stadium, Mato Grosso state Tribes who live in this area include the Nambiquara, Umutina and Pareci. The Umutina were decimated by measles and other diseases. Numbering 400 in 1862, by 1943 just 73 survived. Their numbers are now slowly recovering. The Nambiquara suffered terribly when the BR-364 highway, funded by the World Bank, was bulldozed through the fertile valley that was their homeland. They numbered 7,000 in 1915, but by 1975 only 530 of them remained. Today the Nambiquara population is 2,000, but their lands are still being invaded by diamond miners, loggers and ranchers. ‘They faced dogs, chains, Winchesters, machine guns, napalm, arsenic, clothes contaminated with smallpox, false certificates, removal, deportations, highways, fences, fires, weeds, cattle, the decrees of law and the denial of facts.’ Darcy Ribeiro, Brazilian Senator and anthropologist.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 14:12:44 +0000

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