Avoiding contact has proven to be difficult.
is protected. If they choose to maintain relations with those outside their territory, we want to ensure they're not affected by contagious illnesses," said Nancy Portugal, director of Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact within Peru's Ministry of Culture, the state agency which advocates for tribes in Peru.
The Camisea gas concession, Peru's largest hydrocarbon project, overlaps Nahua territory in the Kugapakori, Nahua, Nanti Territorial Reserve. Nahua men work as seasonal laborers for the gas company.While most Nahua welcome the ability to earn a wage, contact with national society has exposed them to a host of illnesses like diabetes, gastritis, and malnutrition. The Nahua also suffer from severe mercury poisoning from an unconfirmed source.
Sepahua is a remote logging town in Peru's Amazon. The Nahua make regular trips to town from their remote village of Santa Rosa of Serjali.Father Ignacio Iraizoz, who leads the Dominican mission in this remote hamlet -- and advocates for the contact of isolated tribes into national society -- minimized biological threats to isolated and initial contact tribes like the Nahua.
"[I]t's a nefarious influence. It's ethnocidal. It's hostile to their culture," said Moore."A lot of Nahua died because they were brought into the Dominican Mission with inadequate health attention." The letter, published by AIDESEP, demands the government address the"constant and growing" threat of COVID-19 in indigenous communities and warns of"high risk of ethnocide" without state action.
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