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This is a photograph of young Kayapo children, part of an indigenous tribe in the Amazon Basin. If development continues at the rate in which it is progressing, soon indigenous tribes such as these will be eradicated completely.

When Worlds Collide : Coexistence Between the Kayapo and the Modern World Ana Isailovic, Independent Research

This lesson will summarize…. ● Kayapo land rights and culture ● environmental hazards of development ● complexity of the issue of indigenous/modern world conflict ● history of the indigenous in the Amazon Basin ● possible courses of action

About the Kayapo and Brazil ● Numbering over 9,000 ● Located on the edge of SE Amazon Basin ● Unique experience, sustain much of their tradition but are one of the few tribes that has protested against outside encroachment ● FUNAI protects ● Belo Monte dam

The Amazon Basin

Basic History ● Constitutionally, territories owned by Kayapo people ● increase in development with little consultation of indigenous ● Difficult for indigenous to overcome discrimination due to language/cultural barriers ● 93% of development on indigenous land

Forced assimilation results in... ● Disease ● Poverty ● Cultural ● Loss of medical innovation loe.org

Environmental consequences of development ● Between 2000 and 2005, 162,906 square kilometers of the Amazon Basin have been cleared ● Amazon is major water producer ● Toxic chemicals from mining, drilling etc. toxins in air wwf.panda.org wwf.panda.org

Development v. Preservation ● World population growing = more resources needed ● Amazon Basin brimming with said resources ● Construction of new roads ● Destruction of culture, inhumane ● Loss of resources ● Harmful to environment = harmful to future background-kid.com backgrund-kid.com

What Your Generation Knows

Survey Results

My Experience ● Chance to work with truly inspiring individuals ● Dr. Janet Chernela ● Learned to look at complexity of an issue ● Multiple resources to answer a single question ● What is progress?

● Spreading knowledge of indigenous issues ● Giving indigenous tribes a voice from the modern world ● Pressure on policy change Raising Awareness

The Issue is Complex, but not Unsolvable

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