Brazil's Indigenous Awa Tribe At Risk (fwd link)

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 Brazil's Indigenous Awa Tribe At Risk
[image: Brazil Indigenous Awa Tribe]
In this Nov. 2011 photo released in 2012 by Survival International, Awa
Indians point their bow and arrows in Maranhao state, Brazil. (AP
Photo/Survival International)

By MARCO SIBAJA<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/brazils-indigeneous-awa-tribe_n_1574374.html?ref=topbar#>
  06/06/12 12:05 PM ET Associated Press [image: AP]

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.

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.

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.

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