Word: tapaiuna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inventiveness. In Bahia state, the government claims, white men purposely killed off two tribes of Pataxó Indians ten years ago with inoculations of smallpox virus in order to get their land. In Mato Grosso five years ago, a gift of sugar laced with arsenic wiped out the Tapaiuna Indians. Another Mato Grosso tribe was first shot up by a band of gunmen, then bombed from the air by dynamite sticks tossed from a low-flying Cessna. In Parana, where land prices are particularly high, the Guarani tribe has fallen from 5,000 members to 300 in the past...
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