For decades, filmmaker Vincent Carelli kept returning to his friend, the late "Captain" Krohokrenhum, the leader of the Gavião indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon. As a white outsider, it took Carelli time to gain Krohokrenhum's ...See moreFor decades, filmmaker Vincent Carelli kept returning to his friend, the late "Captain" Krohokrenhum, the leader of the Gavião indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon. As a white outsider, it took Carelli time to gain Krohokrenhum's trust. Their long-term relationship resulted in this multifaceted and layered portrait of Krohokrenhum's life and suffering under the kupen-the Gavião word for the white settlers-from the deadly diseases the settlers brought with them to the battles that flared with neighboring peoples under pressure from their rapidly shrinking territory. Written by
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