COVID-19 killed the last man of an indigenous Brazilian tribe

Aruká Juma is dead, reports The New York Times — and with him, the culture knowledge of the indigenous Juma people of the Amazon.

Aruká Juma saw his Amazon tribe dwindle to just a handful of people during his lifetime.

Numbering an estimated 15,000 in the 18th century, they were ravaged over years by disease and successive massacres by rubber tappers, loggers and miners.

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