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Nukak
The Nukak people (also Nukak-Maku) live between the Guaviare and Inirida rivers, in the depths of the tropical humid forest, on the fringe of the Amazon basin, in Guaviare Department, Republic of Colombia. They are nomadic hunter-gatherers with seasonal nomadic patterns and in addition they practice a shifting horticulture in small scale. An "uncontacted people" until 1988, they have since lost half of their population, primarily to disease. " Se suicida un lider indigena, desesperado por la inminente extincion de su pueblo en Colombia," El Mundo, October 2006. [This appears to be a translated press release from Survival.] Part ...
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