The 'jaguar people' of the Yavarí headwaters, faces tattooed and pierced with palm whiskers, who raided for wives and stayed at war with Peru into the jet age.
Endured army invasions and napalm bombing in the 1960s before missionaries made first contact in 1969; ~3,500 today hold a vast titled territory along the Yaquerana and Gálvez astride the Peru–Brazil line.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Matsés (Mayoruna) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1654 · 1969.
An accessible survey of the pre- and post-contact Americas that conveys the pre-conquest complexity and colonial devastation of Amazonian and Brazilian indigenous peoples.
Broad history of the Amazon and its peoples.