Tupian rivermen of the Marañón–Huallaga–Ucayali confluence, the dreaded 'pirates of the rivers' whose long canoes raided neighbours across the upper Amazon.
Smallpox and the 1670 Jesuit mission of Santiago de la Laguna gutted them — from 7,000 to 800 by 1700 — yet they outlasted nearly every rival, and ~20,000 Kukama remain around Nauta and Lagunas.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Cocama-Cocamilla — the shape you scrub through changes in 1557 · 1670.
Kinship and history along the Ucayali–Marañón, the river world of the Cocama-Cocamilla (broad regional context).
An accessible account of the pre-Columbian Americas and the conquest that gutted Amazonian and coastal Brazilian river peoples like the Cocama, Potiguara and Tamoio.