10 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