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How Indigenous tribes live in harmony with nature in the Amazon, where small communities are surrounded by vast stretches of dense rainforest and depend on the land and rivers for food, materials, medicine, and shelter. For generations, Indigenous peoples have developed an intimate understanding of the forest and its... show more

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