Ecosystem Marketplace: Chief Tojtxi never forgot his first, furtive contact with the invaders.
"We saw traces of the whites, and fled into the forest," he told Survival International a few years back. "The whites saw our footsteps and followed us. We went further and further away, but the whites came to our village, and we left our plantations, our caxiri (manioc drink), and everything, to flee."
He was chief of the Arara, an isolated people of the Amazon Rainforest who had their first contact with Brazilian authorities...