An Indigenous man who lived alone in the Amazon rainforest for over three decades wasn’t the last member of his people, according to a study being conducted by the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference’s Indigenous Missionary Council.
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SÃO PAULO – An Indigenous man who lived alone in the Amazon rainforest for over three decades – and became a symbol of the bloody massacres behind the story of the so-called isolated Indigenous groups – wasn’t the last member of his people, according to a study being conducted by the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference’s Indigenous Missionary Council (known as CIMI).
The man, who was found dead in a shack in 2022, was known in Brazil as the Indigenous Man of the Hole, given that no information about him could ever be discovered and all that the government’s anthropologists knew was that he would always dig a deep hole inside each new hut he built.
