Aruká Juma is dead, reports The New York Times — and with him, the culture knowledge of the indigenous Juma people of the Amazon.
— Read the restAruká Juma saw his Amazon tribe dwindle to just a handful of people during his lifetime.
Numbering an estimated 15,000 in the 18th century, they were ravaged over years by disease and successive massacres by rubber tappers, loggers and miners.
