Multimedia Collection
Amazon: The Invisible People
VHS
60 minutes
F2546 .A42 1997
The Amazon is the last place on earth where people who have never been contacted by the modern world live. Ironically, South America's richest oil-fields have been discovered in the depths of the Amazon jungle, in the midst of these last ancient tribes. In Ecuador, an un-contacted tribe called the Tageari are next in the firing line and when contact occurs, their health, their faith, their environment, their love - all the things that define their culture - are changed forever.
Doug Ferguson went to Ecuador in 1986 to work with indigenous people. He has helped tribes secure and demark their ancestral land and saved more than a million hectares of pristine rainforest in reserves and National Parks. As a "barefoot diplomat" he has worked between governments, oil companies, the military and the people of the Amazon. He has been imprisoned and received death threats. This is the story of his work and the invisible people of the Amazon.
Distributed by Amazon Dreaming Productions
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