With an orphaned spider monkey on her shoulders, Nhàktàt, a young Kayapo woman, strolls in Kendjam, a village in northern Brazil. Kayapo sometimes raise infant monkeys and other stranded o spring of animals they hunt.
With an orphaned spider monkey on her shoulders, Nhàktàt, a young Kayapo woman, strolls in Kendjam, a village in northern Brazil. Kayapo sometimes raise infant monkeys and other stranded o spring of animals they hunt.
Kayapo Courage
The Amazon tribe has beaten back ranchers and gold miners and famously stopped a dam. Now its leaders must fight again or risk losing a way of life.
This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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