The economic history of
Native Americans in Amazonia
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The history in general of Native Americans
in Amazonia
- Amazon Indians meet to protest rain forest
destruction
- AP, 26 August 1997. Nearly 100 indigenous leaders from
Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana to convene in Brazil to
protest development projects that threaten the rain
orest and their livelihoods: large-scale logging projects,
gold mining and super-highways.
- Plan Colombia: Fumigation Threatens Amazon,
Warn Indigenous Leaders, Scientists
- By Danielle Knight, IPS, 21 November 2000. The spraying
of chemical herbicides to destroy coca fields in southern
Colombia could seriously threaten the rainforests and
wildlife of the Amazon and the health of indigenous and
small farming communities.