According to new reports, the last member of his tribe, commonly called the Indigenous Man of the Hole, has been found dead in the Amazon by a Funai official.
The death in the Brazilian Amazon of a charismatic Indigenous man believed to be the last of his tribe has alarmed activists mourning the loss of a different ethnic language and culture.
Due to the fact that he spent a large portion of his life hiding or finding shelter in pits he dug in the earth, the lone and enigmatic guy was only known as the "Indigenous man of the hole," or "Índio do Buraco."
He fought all attempts to contact him over a period of decades, during which his land was invaded and friends and family were slaughtered, by setting traps and shooting arrows at anyone who ventured too close.
“Having endured atrocious massacres and land invasions, rejecting contact with outsiders was his best chance of survival,” said Sarah Shenker, a campaigner at Survival International, the global movement for tribal...
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