rapiru, quoted on www.survival-international.org/awa).
             This is little to ask in this day and age, and so why are people so
             desperate to rid these people from the forest, and to massacre them' The
             Amazonian forest is rich in resources, from potential cures for illnesses,
             to hardwood, which wins a good price on international markets: as such,
             this land is extremely valuable, in monetary terms, to the people who
             exploit this land. But what is the price of a human life' That, to me, is
             priceless, and no commodity can be worth the human costs of driving people
             from their ways of life, or their land.
             Another example, that Survival champions, are the Yanonami, also from
             Amazonian Brazil. The Yanonami are one of the most numerous forest dwelling
             peoples in South America, and it is thought that they are amongst the first
             peoples to have arrived in South America, 50,000 years ago (www.survival-
             international.org/yanonami). The Yanonami live simply, communally, in a
             single hut called a yano, which is shaped like a ring to allow dancing and
             music to be performed before the whole community (www.survival-
             international.org/yanonami). The Yanonami lead a hunter-gatherer life, and
             clear portions of the forest for growing small amounts of crop, sustainably
             (www.survival-international.org/yanonami).
             In the 1970's and the 1980's, gold miners decided that the Brazilian
             Amazon region may be a potential source of riches, and invaded the Yanonami
             lands, shooting the Yanonami and exposing them to Western' dise
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