Contact: The Yanomami Indians of Brazil

暂无简介This documentary chronicles the largest gold rush on Indian lands in Brazilian history. Filmed clandestinely at the height of an invasion of 50,000 miners onto the lands of 9,000 Yanomami Indians, \"Contact\" documents in exacting detail the devastation reaped by this uncontrolled invasion of \"wild cat\" gold prospectors into Yanomami Terrioty during which 20% of the tribe's population, or 1,500 Indians, died from a malaria epidemic and armed conflict between Indians and miners.