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                                                                                                                                                                Brazil's Indigenous Awa Tribe At Risk
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                        In this Nov. 2011 photo released in 2012 by Survival International, 
Awa Indians point their bow and arrows in Maranhao state, Brazil.  (AP 
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                                                                                                <span class="bold color_1A1A1A author vcard"><a class="fn" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/brazils-indigeneous-awa-tribe_n_1574374.html?ref=topbar#">By MARCO SIBAJA</a></span> <span class="vborder-dashed margin_0_5"> </span>
                                                                                         
                                                                                        <span class="updated" title="2012-06-06T12:05:33-04:00">06/06/12 12:05 PM ET</span> 
                                                                                        <span class="ap source-org vcard"><span class="org fn hidden">Associated Press</span><span class="vborder-dashed margin_0_5"> </span><img src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/v/ap_wire.png" alt="AP" height="18" width="18"></span>
                                                                                
                                                                                
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                                                        </div><p>BRASILIA, Brazil -- For generations, the Awa lived far from 
the rest of humanity, picking fruit, hunting pigs and monkeys and 
following the seasons' rhythms in their patch of the lush Brazilian 
Amazon rainforest.</p>

<p>Then the rest of the world found the Awa. Loggers and ranchers came, 
cutting into the tribe's ancestral lands in search of profits. So did a 
rail line where trains shuttle tons of iron ore through the forest, from
 mines in the heart of the Amazon to Atlantic Ocean ports, with much of 
it headed for Chinese steel mills.</p>
                                                                        <p>The threat to the Awa grew so grave that it caught the 
attention of the British-based indigenous rights group Survival 
International, which designated them "the world's most endangered tribe"
 and made their preservation its top campaign priority this year.</p><p>Access full article below:</p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/brazils-indigeneous-awa-tribe_n_1574374.html?ref=topbar">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/brazils-indigeneous-awa-tribe_n_1574374.html?ref=topbar</a><br>
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