Brazil: last indigenous person dies in self-imposed isolation in the Amazon [VIDEO]

Authorities said a man who lived in isolation for nearly three decades on a voluntary basis in the Brazilian Amazon and is believed to be the last survivor of a devastated indigenous community has been found dead.

Known as the “Tanaro Indian,” he was found in his hammock in a hut in the Tanaroo Indigenous Territory on August 23, the National Indian Foundation (Funai), a Brazilian government agency, said over the weekend.

He was also known as “indio do buraco” (“Indian of the Hole”) because of his habit of opening deep holes in the huts he lived in.

As the NGO Survival explained, the Tanaroo indigenous land in the state of Rondonia (border with Bolivia) is like an island in the jungle in the middle of a sea of ​​huge pastoral farms, in one of the most dangerous regions Brazilmainly due to illegal mining and deforestation.

Authorities Brazil They did not state the man’s age or cause of death, but said “there were no signs of violence or struggle.” They also found no evidence of the presence of other people at this place or footprints on the vegetation.

“Everything indicates that death was due to natural causes,” Funai said in a statement.

“The Deliberate Elimination of an Entire City”

Authorities believe the 26-year-old man wandered alone in the woods after his town, which was probably already small, was raided by landowners and loggers in the mid-1990s.

“With his death, the genocide of this tribal people was completed,” said Fiona Watson, director of research for Survival, who visited the Tanara territory in 2004.

“It was a real genocide, the deliberate destruction of an entire people by ranchers, hungry for land and wealth,” he said.

According to Funai, there are 114 records of the presence of isolated indigenous groups in Brazila number that varies depending on the reports.

In the 2010 census, over 800,000 people claimed to be indigenous. Brazila country that currently has over 212 million inhabitants.

More than half of them live in the Amazon, and many are threatened by large-scale illegal exploitation of the natural resources on which they depend for survival.

(According to AFP)

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