Word: motilones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please do not make me laugh-or let's be sincere! "By the end of this year [ethnologists] hope ... to convince the rest of the South American Motilon Indians that war is no longer necessary [TIME, June 23]." Why in hell don't we start that kind of teaching right here...
...companies of northwestern Colombia, the Motilon Indians of the jungle-tangled mountains are an industrial hazard. The Motilones (mo-tee-loan-es) ambush trucks, shoot 6-ft. arrows through the oilmen's tents-and sometimes through the oilmen. What is worse, they give the oilworkers' union a hard-to-answer argument for extra hazard...
...Little Indians. Last week Colombia's National Ethnological Institute had new hope of getting to know the Motilones. A nine-year-old Motilon boy recently led a settler near Petrolea to a hut in the jungle. In it were two dead Indians and a 15-year-old boy who was almost dead. The nine-year-old and 15-year-old were taken to the hospital of the Colombian Petroleum Co. While they were being nursed back to strength, Ethnologists Jean Caudmont and Francisco Vélez Arango of Bogotá hurried to Petrolea...
Eventually, the ethnologists hope either to teach Spanish to the jungle boys or to learn the Motilon language. Then they will try to find out from the boys why their people wage continual war against all outsiders. The cause may prove to be something that fair treatment will eliminate. By the end of this year, they hope, they can take their young interpreters, friends by that time, into Motilon territory and convince the rest of the Indians that war is no longer necessary...