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Kayapó Tribe Fights Deforestation
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by AClare | August 9, 2006 at 10:44 am
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The International Herald Tribune has a really nice article about a tribe in the Amazon that is fighting deforestation. The author recounts his previous experience of going into the Amazon and compares that to what it is like today. It actually starts off rather depressing since the environmental destruction is so prominent, but what makes [...]
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at 16:34 on August 9th, 2006
Nice story. But the article's conclusion is highly questionable. Is the Kayapo's struggle more justified as they are not only defending their homeland but also nature's treasures for the mankind? Was the struggle of the Native Americans against the European intruders therefore less justified? To say that there's a major difference between the Kayapo and the Native Indians in what is now the US is complete rubbish.