Aug 17 2009
The last man
In a forest of the state of Rondonia (Brazil), the lone survivor of a local tribe was seen in the late 1990’s for the first time. He was terrified by the Indians he saw, not his people. A few months later, he attacked them when they came again, with a camera. The Brazilian government has now decided to stop trying to contact him or track him down and will only preserve his territory until he dies. The traces he leaves behind are always of a peculiar kind, arrows and sticks, and always a very deep hole in the center of his shelter: 1 meter in diameter and 3 meters deep. Is it his grave? a shelter? a rain bucket? his house is always made of palms. Other Indians say they have never seen such a big hole in any other tribes. Anthropologists think he is the only one of a kind since 1985.
The forests around him are being decimated, burned down and prepared for crops and roads. Like a wild animal, his territory is shrinking, and there is no way for him to continue his race, especially since he does not want to be approached by other Indian tribes. The end of a tribe, the man with the hole, who knows how long he will be here.
