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For many, it was already too late. The twister demolished not only the community hall but virtually every other building in Saragosa. At least 28 people were killed and more than 100 injured. In the predawn darkness Saturday, rescuers were still digging away at the wreckage of homes illuminated only...
George Hearst, mining tycoon and Senator from California, tried to dissuade his son by offering him the chance to manage a ranch in Mexico or a gold mine in South Dakota. But William Randolph Hearst, then 23, would have none of it. He wanted to run a newspaper, specifically a...
Indeed, the gold rush has set off a multisided conflict that now seems to be escalating. Indian activists accuse the Salesians (named after the 17th century French saint Francis de Sales) of destroying their traditional culture and replacing it with the values of European Christianity. At the same time, the...
When the Tukanos found gold in the Serra do Traira region in 1984, the Salesians' paternalistic domain began to crumble. Soon hundreds of Indians were panning streams, only to encounter exploitation from white buyers who paid them 50% below market price for the gold. Then about 2,000 well-armed...
One Tukano leader, Benedito Machado, angered by the forces aligned against his people, says, "The church taught us to turn the other cheek, but it taught us nothing about the cunning, the subtleties and lies the white man uses." Nevertheless, the 200 Indian leaders who attended a three-day summit...