Living with a price on his head
by Matthew
In recent days we’ve had news of the violent persecution faced by the solitary survivor of an uncontacted Brazilian tribe.
Still taken from Corumbiara by Vincent Carelli in which we see FUNAI officials trying to establish contact with the Indian, who backs off refusing contact.
Living alone, doubtless haunted by memories of his tribe’s massacre, he hides from outsiders on a patch of rainforest surrounded by cattle ranches. He grows basic crops and attempts to survive unnoticed.
Despite his past and his plight, the man’s existence in this segment of forest adds up to lost earnings for some local rancher, making the land, and the man, a target.
It’s not far-fetched to suppose that there is a price on his head, with thugs at large plotting to collect that fee. It’s the sort of scenario that other Brazilian tribes know all too well.
And so it is that this quiet survivor of a wiped-out people teeters on the edge, as those around him with their eyes on his land move in with ruthless zeal.