Use of Tropical Rainforests by Native Amazonians
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Health and demography of native Amazonians: historical perspective and current status.
Native Amazonians have been the victims of two massive historical assaults, one at the time of the Conquest and the other during the Twentieth century. Due to epidemic disease and environmental destruction, many tribes have gone from contact to displacement, decimation, and extinction in a single generation. Deculturation and the construction of large development projects have had catastrophic ...
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