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Awá: According to Survival Inter- Korubo:
national, a human rights or-
The Awá are an indigenous ganization which campaigns The Korubo or Korubu, also
people of Brazil living in the for the rights of indigenous known as the Dslala, are an
eastern Amazon rain forest. tribal peoples and consid- indigenous people of Brazil
There are approximately 350 ers them to be the “earth’s living in the lower Vale do
members, and 100 of them most threatened tribe,” Awá Javari in the western Ama-
have no contact with the forests are now disappear- zon Basin. The group calls
outside world. They are con- ing faster than in any other themselves ‘Dslala’, and in
sidered highly endangered Indian area in the Brazilian Portuguese they are referred
because of conflicts with log- Amazon. to as caceteiros (clubbers).
ging interests in their terri- Much of what the outside
tory. world knows of this group
They speak Guajá, a Tupi– is based on the research of
Brazilian explorer Sydney
Guaraní language. Original- Possuelo, who first contacted
ly living in settlements, they the tribe in October 1996,
adopted a nomadic lifestyle and journalist Paul Raffaele.
around 1800 to escape incur-
sions by Europeans. During he Korubo are some of the
the 19th century, they came last people on Earth to live
under increasing attack by in near isolation from mod-
settlers in the region, who ern society although they
cleared most of the forests have on numerous occasions
from their land. had violent contacts with the
surrounding communities.
Awá, Kawahiva,
Group of Korubo People Korubu, Uru-Eu-
sitting for a discussion
Wau-Wau, Himarimã
like tribes are founded
by tourist and journalists
visited in amazon. But
there are still so many
tribes are available in
amazon which not con-
tacted or found by any
person. Maybe 100 or
more.
