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Colombia.
Near Bogota the Gualubo tribe was proportedly
being hunted and killed by the Colombian army and
white settlers who believe there is o1i1 beneath the
tribe's
lands.
Apparently well over
170,000
acres
have
already been taken leaving the 7,000 Gualiboes with little in the way of subsistence.
Informants report
extremely high rates of tuberculosis,
diseases,
and malnutrition.
veneral
In an effort to control
sporadic outbreaks the Colombian army sponsors
"Indian drives"
considering the tribe's attempts
at mere survival to be actions against the government.
One official
militant.
until
p.
stated,
"The white
settlers are even more
There will not be any peace in this region
the Indians
are dead"
(Akwesasne Notes,
1972,
26).
Venezuela.
There
is
an extensive tract of
land
situated
along the upper Ventuari River of the Amazon Federal
Territory.
Up until February 15,
almost exclusively
1971,
the land was
inhabited by the Yekuana Indians,
also known as the Makiritare.
Despite hostile rela-
tionships with other tribes and “colonialists"
they
have managed to remain unscathed and culturally
cohesive.
But on
that fateful day,
outsiders,
the dispossession of the Makiritare lands.
initiated
The
Makiritare protested claiming that the “inyvasion"
was
illegal.
A statement, which appeared in the
Caracas daily newspaper,
government's position,
~
a
SO11101
El Nacional,
summed up the
“It would be absurd to say