Matis and Korubo, Contact, and Isolated Indigenous Peoples: Native Narratives and Ethnography in the Brazilian Amazon
This article is about isolation, contact, and relations between two Amazonian indigenous peoples: the Matis and the Korubo.Both groups, of the Panoan linguistic family, live in Screens the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.The Matis were contacted by the Funai (the Brazilian agency for indigenous affairs) in 1976, and