1. The Yanomami Indians of the Amazon
Indigenous people within the Amazon rely heavily on its environmental aspect and its demolition directly affects them. ... They believe that their fate, and the fate of all people, is inescapably linked to the fate of the environment and with its destruction humanity is committing suicide. ... This forever altered the cultures of the indigenous people. ... They have suffered to such an extent that one of the tribe leaders has declared in A Sadness at the Heart of the World, "The white man has built roads, houses, farms, and opened the way to disease, poverty and death." ... You see Ya...
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