‘Man of the Hole’, last member of Amazon tribe who resisted outside world, dies in Brazil


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The last of his people, a Brazilian indigenous man known only as the “Man of the Hole” has been found dead, decades after the rest of his uncontacted tribe were killed off by ranchers and illegal miners, officials said. Having lived in complete isolation for 26 years, the man – whose real name was never known to the outside world – was found in a hammock in a hut in the Tanaru indigenous territory in Rondonia state on the border with Bolivia on August 23, Brazil’s National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) said in a statement. Since losing everyone he knew, the...