Lessons from the Amazon (fwd link)

Tue May 6 17:30:37 UTC 2008

May 6, 2008

Lessons from the Amazon
Chief inspires Toronto students

By BEN SPENCER, SUN MEDIA

Pass him by in the street and Tashka Yawanawa probably wouldn't draw a second
look.

But at his home, deep within the heart of Amazon, he is a king -- well, a chief
anyway.

Rightly so. The native leader almost single-handedly brought the Yawanawa tribe
back from the brink of extinction.

At just 28, he was thrust into the position of chief after a tribal leader had a
vision that he could turn the ailing people around.

That he did. After the tribe's population dwindled to just 220 in 1992, more
than 620 now call the Yawanawa community home.

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