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...