THE TRIBE THAT TIME FORGOT

Paul Raffaele travels into the heart of the Amazon basin to meet the Korubo people who live in almost total isolation

DEEP IN THE AMAZON JUNGLE, I STUMBLED along a sodden track carved through steamy undergrowth, frequently sinking to my knees in the mud. Leading the way was a bushy-bearded, fiery-eyed Brazilian, Sydney Possuelo, South America’s leading expert on remote Indian tribes and the last of the continent’s great explorers. Our destination: the village of a fierce tribe not far removed from the Stone Age. We were in the Javari Valley, one of the Amazon’s “exclusion zones” — huge tracts of virgin jungle set aside over the previous decade by Brazil’s government for indigenous Indians and off limits to outsiders. Hundreds of people from a handful of tribes live in the valley amid misty swamps, twisting rivers and sweltering rainforests bristling with anacondas, caimans and jaguars. They have little or no…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2023

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