White gunk oozed out. He had each kid pose with his or her finger in the still-seeping gum. It looked like a ghostly bloodstain. Then JP elaborately plugged the cut with moss and weeds. I asked Katia.
Little things mean a lot.
In the world of rain forest exploitation, JP's sin was small potatoes. Last August, goldminers shot 16 of them, hacked them to pieces and burned them to get their land. This tribe, the Yanomami, never even had contact with outsiders until the 1970s. Since then, thousands have died of diseases introduced by whites, like the flu. Of course, there's a government agency that's supposed to protect them.