With Bows And Spears, Indigenous ‘warriors’ Defend The Amazon

Indigenous "warriors," consisting of young men from the Amazon village of Sao Luis, patrol the Javari River while defending their territory using bows and spears.

Members of the "Warriors of the Forest," a vigilante group from the Kanamari ethnic group, patrol along the Javari river in the northwest Amazonas state of Brazil (Siegfried)

In a remote pocket of the Brazilian Amazon under siege from illegal fishermen, poachers, loggers and drug traffickers, Indigenous people have taken it upon...

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