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Amazon - Is not having children a form of resistance?
I used to work in the Amazon off and on - as an indigenous rights activist.Used to visit some very remote tribes - taking parasitologist and dentists into the jungle to address the medical problems of the communities.Anyway, one tribe had only been contacted very recently - during i believe in the 60s ... (i was there late 80s early 90s). Well as you can imagine the point of contact between their culture and western culture was devastating the point that the tribe believed it was apocalyptic - such horrors they faced - at the hands of white culture or western culture the women of that tribe decided that the events of the future were too doomed to bring children…
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