Struggles for survival in the Amazon
Leaders of the Ashaninka tribe, which shares territory with this tribe and other uncontacted ones, have asked the government and NGOs for help in controlling what they consider the encroachment of these tribes on their own area, stating that the movement of other tribes is caused by pressure from illegal logging across the border in Peru.
All photographs were taken between March 6 to March 25, 2014.
Acre, Brazil
Indians who are considered uncontacted by anthropologists react to a plane flying over their community.Over the past three years, the Ashaninka and Madija say that they have seen more and more incursions on their territory from uncontacted tribes, defined by Survival International as groups who have no peaceful contact with mainstream society. The "Bravos," or "Braves," as uncontacted Indians are called in the region, carry out raids on other villages, putting the communities along the Envira River on permanent alert.
Acre, Brazil
Ashaninka Indian cacique (chief) Txate stands inside a building of the former government base called the Envira Front of Ethno-environmental Protection along the Envira river in Brazil's northwestern Acre state.Brazil's Indian affairs agency (FUNAI) reported to local media that the base was abandoned in 2011 after an attack by armed men from across the border in Peru.
Many indigenous groups, including the Huni Kui, Ashaninka, and Madija, live in villages in the Brazilian rainforest near the border with Peru.