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Contact: The Yanomami Indians of Brazil
- 1991 ----- color ----- 28 min ----- vhs
- Depicts the devastating impact of contact with the outside world on an isolated indigenous tribe. Since 1987, as the result of the incursion of Brazilian gold miners, an estimated fifteen percent of the Yanomami Indians have died from malaria and related diseases to which they have little resistance. Further, the mining operations have polluted rivers and scared away game animals thereby destroying the Yanomami's traditional ecosystem. Although the Brazilian government is ostensibly trying to protect the Indians, such efforts are undermined by the fact that their mineral-rich ancestral land is coveted by mining interests.
- Topics: (Anthropology: Cultural, Environmental Studies, Latin America)
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