Posted on 03/02/2026 11:53:45 AM PST by nickcarraway
With only three women left, the Akuntsu were decimated by a government-backed land grab in the Amazon. Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the Amazon rainforest. As they advanced in age without a child to carry on the line, many expected the Akuntsu to vanish when the women died.
That changed in December, when Babawru – the youngest of the three, in her 40s – gave birth to a boy. Akyp's arrival brought hope not just for the Akuntsu line but also for efforts to protect the equally fragile rainforest.
“This child is not only a symbol of the resistance of the Akuntsu people, but also a source of hope for Indigenous peoples,” says Joenia Wapichana, president of Brazil's Indigenous protection agency, known as Funai. “He represents how recognition, protection and the management of this land are extremely necessary.”
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Bill is supposedly sterile.
Chelsea looks a bit like Webb Hubbell.
Second sentence said the three women were the only surviving members of the tribe.
Laz? Have you visited Brazil lately?
...............Bill Clinton.”
But of course. LMAO
That changed in December, when Babawru – the youngest of the three, in her 40s – gave birth to a boy. Akyp's arrival brought hope not just for the Akuntsu line but also for efforts to protect the equally fragile rainforest.
So he'll be the only one alive when his grandma, aunt and mother dies? I hope they'll find more of them in the Amazon rainforest...
Depends but usually not. If it was the tribe would quickly suffer from massive inbreeding and would result in death in about four generations.
Generally the baby is considered a member of what ever tribe their parents live with.
Cabeza de Vaca, after he was shipwrecked on the coast of Texas (near present-day Galveston), got to know some of the local Indian tribes while being held as a slave for several years. One or two of the tribes killed all their baby girls because if they grew up they would marry men from other tribes and produce sons who would later fight against the tribe the daughters were born into. Those tribes later became extinct.
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