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They finally returned to their ancestral land in 2013. Mandeí’s father – the last Juma man – died of COVID in 2021. “Then we were the only Juma survivors – me, my sister and my other sister. That’s three people.” Now, Mandeí works for FUNAI, monitoring the lands of uncontacted Indigenous people. “I joined the monitoring work so that this wouldn’t happen again, so that people wouldn’t go in and massacre the uncontacted people. It’s to protect them, so they don’t end up like the Juma people.” Dear Jack, almost half of the world’s uncontacted peoples could face what the Juma people have experienced within the next 10 years unless governments and companies act. Please help us ensure this doesn’t happen.
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