Last Member of a Lost Tribe Still Survives in Brazil

“He looks healthy, which is very encouraging. He has survived this long in a very violent frontier region of the Amazon.”

If the man being described was a cast member on a popular reality show, this would not be news. However, this is the sad story of a real survivor — the last member of a lost Amazon tribe who has lived alone for the last 22 years in a real-life “Truman Show” world under the surveillance of Brazilian officials who have stopped trying to make contact after being shot at with arrows.

“This man, who is a mystery to us, has lost everything, his people, a series of cultural practices. Yet, he has proven that, despite being all alone in the jungle, it’s possible to survive and resist joining mainstream society.”

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