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The Guajá

Sebastião Salgado2013

Instituto Socioambiental - ISA

Instituto Socioambiental - ISA
São Paulo, Brazil

Txiparamanxa'á, accompanied by his son Kiripí, with a howler monkey hunted in the forest of the Caru Indigenous Land, northwest Maranhão State. The Guajá, one of the last hunter-gatherer peoples in the country, consist of 420 people and three still ‘isolated’ groups. Under pressure from loggers, farmers and drug traffickers, their territory is among the most deforested in the Brazilian Amazon.

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