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Stop The Deforestation
"This land is where we know where to find all that it provides for us--food
from hunting and fishing, and farms, building and tool materials,
medicines. This land keeps us together within its mountains; we come to
understand that we are not just a few people or separate villages, but one
people belonging to a homeland" (Colins 32). The "homeland" is the Upper
Mazaruni District of Guyana, a region in the Amazon rain forest where the
Akawaio Indians make their home (32). The vast rain forest, often
regarded as just a mass of trees and exotic species, is to many indigenous
people a home. This home is being
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