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...Like Cattle." The proud and handsome Caraja nation has dwindled in two centuries from 500,000 to 1,200, and its domain, which once stretched 870 miles from northern Mato Grosso to the sea, has shrunk to the shores of a jungle island. Of the Pau d'Arcos, some 3,000 strong at the beginning of the century, a lone survivor remains-an old woman wearing out her days as a stranger in another tribe. Many tribes, among them the Amoipiras and the Potiguaras, live only in the history books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Vanishing Indian | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

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