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Images From Brazil’s Surui Tribe

Brazil's Surui tribe fought the loggers and developers threatening their lands for years, but nothing worked until they went high-tech.

from Reader's Digest | March 2012
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Photographs by Craig Stennett
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Almir Narayamoga became the chief of the Surui in 1991, at 17.

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When they first met white men in 1969, the Surui were afraid to touch them.


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At school in the village of Lapetanha, student share three computers.


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Mopidmore Surui, 23, embodies his tribal heritage.


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Lapetanha has 102 inhabitants, a school, and a church. It got electricity in 2007.


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A long Surui hunter sets out on one of the dirt roads that lace the preserve.


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Your Comments

  • veerappan

    Worldwide the indegineous people’s,lands,forest,way of live,culture and their very existence
    at danger of totally wiped out by this century, the way things are going.These people are losing the battle against corrupted leaders,the very goverment who supposed to protect them has forgetten them.Against big power, big money and manipulations these peope have little chance
    to defend themselves.