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Photo: Person and dog around a dying fire in a Yanomami village
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Photograph by Robert Caputo
A dying fire fends off the dawn chill in a Yanomami village near Venezuela’s border with Brazil. Harder to repel are sporadic assaults by Brazilian gold miners, who in the summer of 1993 killed at least 16 Yanomami. Many more die each year from malaria and other diseases brought by outsiders.

—From "The Orinoco: Into the Heart of Venezuela," April 1998, National Geographic magazine
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