The retrospective history of
Native Americans in Amazonia
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The history in general of Native Americans
in Amazonia
- Arawk-Deni of Amazonia
- Query from the Tiano-L, 24 November 1998. Reference to view
that Archaic Arawak speaking peoples had migrated from
Amazonia to the Caribbean Islands. The possible association
of the word
Taino
and Deni.
- Ticuna Indian Massacre Trial
- Press Release, Environmental Defense Fund, 8 September 1999.
Witnesses to the Ticuna Indian massacre of March 1988 are
scheduled to testify in the Upper Amazon town of Benjamin
Constant. They survived the slaughter ordered by logger Oscar
Castelo Branco in which 14 Ticuna were shot to death and 23
were wounded, to prevent the Indians from reclaiming and
taking control of their traditional tropical forest lands.