The Unconquered: Brazil’s People of the Arrow

In 2002, National Geographic sent journalist Scott Wallace into the deepest recesses of Brazil’s Amazon to track an uncontacted indigenous tribe—the People of the Arrow. Hear his gripping first-person account of adventure and survival as described in his new book: The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes.

November 3 2011
7:30 pm
National Geographic Museum

1600 M Street, NW

Washington, D.C., US

20036

202 857 7700
Washington, D.C.
NG Member: $18; General Public: $20

Find out more here.

From The New York Times

Brazilian Amazon Groups Invade Site of Dam Project
By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
Published: October 27, 2011

BUENOS AIRES — Waving bows and arrows and dressed in war paint, hundreds of members of indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon invaded the construction site of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on Thursday.

Find the whole story here.

If you want to see a whole lot of Indians at once

The White House has announced the third annual Tribal Leaders conference, to be held at the Department of the Interior on December 2. That's that building one block down from us on E St. So if you hang out that day, you're going to see a whole lot of fancy clothes.

We Want to Scare You

It's not relevant to our course topic--

but it's awesome and it's free.

Alaskan Indigenous Whale Hunting

BARROW, Alaska — The ancient whale hunt here is not so ancient anymore.
“Ah, the traditional loader,” one man mumbled irreverently. “Ah, the traditional forklift.”

Excellent article in today's New York Times on indigenous whale hunting in the age of industrial technology, international controls, and global warming:

With Powerboat and Forklift, a Sacred Tradition Endures

Watch More TV

Nolana Yip passed this link on to me. It could be very informative, it could be kind of cliched (I'm a little worried about the part where Diane learns a traditional dance):

Diane Sawyer's Report on Today's Plains Indians on 20/20, Friday Oct 12 10 pm

Heart of Darkness

You can find a complete pdf text of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in our pbworks site Electronic Reserves folder here. I chose this edition because it has some helpful annotations. Practically any of many paperback editions will serve well, too; and if you'd like to hear Heart of Darkness read to you--sometimes very dramatically--check the link here.

We will discuss Heart of Darkness on October 19 and 26. I'll provide some historical context. An essay in response is due November 2.