| | Sacred Earth Newsletter - September 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | And the temptation to trade short-term profit from their gold and tropical woods may prove irresistible to tribal chieftains who increasingly find that prestige and influence may come as much from providing civilized trade goods as returning game-laden from hunting expeditions. |
 | | As it now stands, the tribe does not have the resources of surveillance and enforcement to repel a new wave of deforestation and invasion that is spreading like a human tsunami from the nearby highway linking Cuiabá, south of their lands and Santarem near Kayapó northern borders. |
 | | The Kayapó, tough and independent as they are, both as individuals and as a tribe, now need their friends, perhaps more than ever. |
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