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Last Known Survivor Of Amazon Tribe, Who Evaded Contact, Dies

Grab of a file video taken in March 2011 by Brazil's National Indian FoundationBrasilia: For more than 20 years he lived alone in the Brazilian Amazon eating nuts, fruit and game -- a symbol of the struggle of indigenous people who exist in isolation in the rainforest.Now this man whose very name was unknown is dead, and his passing has made headlines around the world.His life was marked by massacres that left him as the lone survivor of a small tribe attacked by gunmen apparently hired by ranchers seeking to exploit the pristine Amazon.He was found dead lying in a hammock on August 23 in Tanaru Indigenous Territory. Authorities found no signs of violence and believe he died of natural causes.The man was covered in the bright feathers of a bird called the guacamaya, a kind of macaw, loc...