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Armed groups, plantations and anti-personnel mines are removing the indigenous Nukak tribes, one of the oldest in the Colombian Amazon, from the land of their ancestors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“Our children are losing culture, they now prefer store-bought sweets,” says a community member returning to displaced refugees.<\/p>\n
The invaders of their lands were first the colonizers and then the armed groups, which forced the Nukaks 33 years ago to flee the jungle to the small towns.<\/p>\n
44-year-old Mauricio still communicates in the language of the Nunak community with his daughter Jina, 22,<\/p>\n
He goes out hunting with arrows in the barrel, with which he kills monkeys and squirrels.<\/p>\n
As he blows hard on the metal tube, his arrow hits the hairy monkey which falls asleep from the poison.<\/p>\n
Other community members hunt monkeys by imitating their sounds.<\/p>\n
“We came to look for food,” his daughter Jina told AFP during the six-hour hunt.<\/p>\n
In the group are six men wearing jeans and t-shirts, followed by three women looking for long-tailed turtles on the ground.<\/p>\n
They try to maintain their customs but have already succumbed to the violence and deforestation that has paved the way for drug producers and plantation farmers.<\/p>\n
“They moved us, expelled us,” complains 28-year-old godfather Over Katua, who has not known life in the jungle, except for his parents’ stories. \/ Agence France Presse \/<\/p>\n
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