Special report | The Amazon
Money trees
The Amazon and its residents need sustainable development
THE INDIGENOUS territory Sete de Setembro draws its name from the “first contact” with the Paiter Suruí tribe: September 7th 1969. At the time, tribe members thought white men, with their pale skin and strange beards, were a sort of monster, whereas the indigenous were “real people”, or paiterey in their tongue.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Money trees”