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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I'm an ethnobotanist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a scientist who works in the rain forest
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to document how people use local plants.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been doing this for a long time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want to tell you,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these people know these forests
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these medicinal treasures
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,better than we do and\Nbetter than we ever will.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But also, these cultures,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these indigenous cultures,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are disappearing much faster
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the forests themselves,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the greatest and\Nmost endangered species
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Amazon rain forest
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the jaguar,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not the harpy eagle,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the isolated and uncontacted tribes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now four years, I injured my foot
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a climbing accident
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I went to the doctor.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She gave me heat,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she gave me cold, Aspirin,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,narcotic painkillers, anti-inflammatories,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cortisone shots.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It didn't work.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Several months later,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in the northeast Amazon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,walked into a village,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the shaman said, "You're limping."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'll never forget\Nthis as long as I live.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He looked me in the face and he said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Take off your shoe
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and give me your machete."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He walked over to a palm tree
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and carved off a fern,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,threw it in the fire,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,applied it to my foot,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,threw it in a pond of water,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and had me drink the tea.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The pain disappeared for seven months.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it came back, I went\Nto see the shaman again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gave me the same treatment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've been cured for three years now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who would you rather be treated by?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now make no mistake, Western medicine
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the most successful system of healing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ever devised,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there's plenty of holes in it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where's the cure for breast cancer?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where's the cure for schizophrenia?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where's the cure for acid reflux?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where's the cure for insomnia?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact is that these people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can sometimes, sometimes, sometimes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cure things we cannot.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here you see a medicine man\Nin the northeast Amazon
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,treating Leishmaniasis,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a really nasty protozoal disease
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that afflicts 12 million\Npeople around the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Western treatment are\Ninjections of antimony.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're painful, they're expensive,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're probably\Nnot good for your heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a heavy metal.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This man cures it with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three plants from the Amazon rain forest.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the magic frog.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My colleague, the late\Ngreat Loren McIntyre,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,discoverer of the source lake of Amazon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Laguna McIntyre in the Peruvian Andes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was lost on the Peru-Brazil border
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about 30 years ago.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was rescued by a group of isolated
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indians called the Matses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They beckoned for him to follow them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the forest, which he did.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There, they took out palm leaf baskets.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There, they took out these\Ngreen monkey frogs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,— These are big suckers,\Nthey're like this —
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they began licking them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It turns out, they're\Nhighly hallucinogenic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,McIntyre wrote about this, and it was read
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the editor of High Times Magazine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, the ethnobotanists have friends
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all sorts of strange cultures.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This guy decided he would go down
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Amazon and give it a whirl,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or give it a lick, and he did,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he wrote,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My blood pressure went through the roof,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lost full control of\Nmy bodily functions,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I passed out in a heap,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I woke up in a hammock six hours later,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,felt like God for two days.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An Italian chemist read this and said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm not really interested\Nin the theological aspects
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the green monkey frog.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's this about the\Nchange in blood presure?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, this is an Italian chemist
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's working on a new treatment\Nfor high blood pressure
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on peptides in the skin
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the green monkey frog,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other scientists are looking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a cure for drug-resistant staph aureus.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How ironic, if these isolated Indians
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their magic frog
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prove to be one of the cures.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's an Ayahuasca shaman
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the northwest Amazon, in\Nthe middle of a yage ceremony.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took him to Los Angeles
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to meet a foundation officer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for support
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for moneys to protect their culture.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This fellow looked at the\Nmedicine man, and he said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You didn't go to medical school, did you"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shaman said, "No, I did not."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "Well, then what can\Nyou know about healing?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shaman looked at him and he said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You know what? If you have an infection,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go to a doctor,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he said, "but many human afflictions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are disease of the heart,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mind, and the spirit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Western medicine can't touch those.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cure them."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But all is not rosy in learning
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from nature about new medicines.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a viper from Brazil,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the venom of which was studied at\Nthe Universidade de São Paulo here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was later developed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into ace inhibitors.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a frontline treatment\Nfor hypertension.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hypertension kills over 10 percent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all deaths on the planet everyday.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a four billion dollar industry
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based on venom from a Brazilian snake,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Brazilians did not get a nickel.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not an acceptable way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of doing business.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rain forest has been called
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the greatest expression of life on Earth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a saying in Suriname
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I dearly love:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The rain forests hold answers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to questions we have yet to ask."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as you all know,\Nit's rapidly disappearing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here in Brazil, in the Amazon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took this picture from a small plane
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flying over the eastern border\Nof the Xingu indigenous reserve
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the state of Mato Grosso\Nto the northwest of here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The top half of the picture,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see where the Indians live.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The line through the middle
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the eastern border of the reserve.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Top half Indians, bottom half white guys.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Top half wonder drugs,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bottom half just a bunch\Nof skinny-ass cows.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Top half carbon sequestered
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the forest where it belongs,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bottom half carbon in the atmosphere
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where it's driving climate change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, the number two cause
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of carbon being released\Ninto the atmosphere
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is forest destruction.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in talking about destruction,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's important to keep in mind
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Amazon is the mightiest
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,landscape of all.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a place of beauty and wonder.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The biggest anteater in the world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lives in the rain forest,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tips the scale at 90 pounds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The goliath bird-eating spider
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the world's largest spider.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's found in the Amazon as well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The harpy eagle wingspan
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is over seven feet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the black cayman.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These monsters can tip the scale
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at over half a ton.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're known to be man-eaters.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The anaconda, the largest snake,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the capybara, the largest rodent.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A specimen from here in Brazil
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tipped the scale at 201 pounds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's visit where these creatures live,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the northeast Amazon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,home to the Akuriyo tribe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uncontacted peoples
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hold a mystical and iconic role
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our imagination.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the people who know nature best.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the people who truly live
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in total harmony with nature.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By our standards, some would\Ndismiss these people as primitive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't know how to make fire,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or they didn't when they\Nwere first contacted,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they know the forest
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far better than we do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Akuriyos have 35 words for honey,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other Indians look up to them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as being the true masters
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the emerald realm.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here you see the face of my friend Ponay.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a teenager rocking out
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Rolling Stones in my\Nhometown of New Orleans,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ponay was a forest normad
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,roaming the jungles of\Nthe northeast Amazon
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a small band,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for game,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for medicinal plants,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looking for a wife
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in other small nomadic bands.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's people like these
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that know things that we don't,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they have lots of lessons
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to teach us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, if you go into most
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the forests of the Amazon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are no indigenous peoples.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what you find:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rock carvings which indigenous peoples,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uncontacted peoples, used to sharpen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the edge of the stone axe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These cultures that once danced,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made love, sang to the gods,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,worshipped the forest,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all that's left is an imprint in stone,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you see here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's move to the western Amazon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is really the epicenter\Nof isolated peoples.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each of these dots represents
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a small, uncontacted tribe,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the big reveal today is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we believe there are 14 or 15 isolated groups
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Columbian Amazon alone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why are these people isolated?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They know we exist, they\Nknow there's an outside world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a form of resistance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have chosen to remain isolated,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think it is their\Nhuman right to remain so.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why are these the tribes\Nthat hide from man?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's why. Obviously some of this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was set off in 1492,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but at the turn of the last century
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the rubber trade.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The demand for natural rubber,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which came from the Amazon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,set off the botanical\Nequivalent of a gold rush.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rubber for bicycle tires,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rubber for automobile tires,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rubber for zeppelins.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a mad race to get that rubber,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the man on the left, Julio Arana,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one of the true thugs of the story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His people, his company,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other companies like them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,killed, massacred, tortured,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,butchered Indians like the Witotos you see
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the right hand side of the slide.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even today, when people\Ncome out of the forest,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the story seldom has a happy ending.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are Nukaks. They\Nwere contacted in the '80s.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within a year, everybody over 40 was dead.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And remember, these\Nare preliterate societies.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The elders are the libraries.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every time a shaman dies,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's as if a library has been burned down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have been forced off their lands.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The drug traffickers have taken over
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Nukak lands,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Nukaks live as beggars
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in public parks in eastern Colombia.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the Nukak lands, I want to take you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the southwest, to the most spectacular
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,landscape in the world:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chiribiquete National Park.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was surrounded by three isolated tribes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thanks to the Colombian government
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Colombian colleagues,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it has now expanded.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's bigger than the state of Maryland.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a treasure trove\Nof botanical diversity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was first explored botanically in 1943
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by my mentor, Richard Schultes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seen here atop the Bell Mountain,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sacred mountains of the Carajás?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And let me show you\Nwhat it looks like today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Flying over Chiribiquete,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,realize that these lost world\Nmountains are still lost.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No scientist has been atop them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, nobody has been\Natop the Bell Mountain
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since Schultes in '43,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we'll end up here\Nwith the Bell Mountain
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to the east of the picture.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me show you what it looks like today.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only is this a treasure\Ntrove of botanical diversity,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only is it home to\Nthree isolated tribes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's the greatest treasure trove
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of pre-Colombian art in the world:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over 200,000 paintings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Dutch scientist Thomas van der Hammen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,described this as the Sistine Chapel
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Amazon rain forest.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But move from Chiribiquete\Ndown to the southeast,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,again in the Colombian Amazon.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember, the Colombian Amazon
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is bigger than New England.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Amazon's a big forest,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Brazil's got a big part of it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not all of it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moving down to these two national parks,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cahuinari and Puré
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Colombian Amazon
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,— that's the Brazilian\Nborder to the right —
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's home to several groups
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of isolated and uncontacted peoples.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the trained eye, you\Ncan look at the roofs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of these maloccas, these longhouses,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see that there's cultural diversity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are, in fact, different tribes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As isolated as these areas are,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let me show you how the outside world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is crowding in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here we see trade and transport\Nincreased in Putamayo.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the diminishment of\Nthe Civil War in Colombia,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the outside world is showing up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the north, we have illegal gold mining,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also from the east, from Brazil.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's increased hunting and fishing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for commercial purposes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see illegal logging\Ncome in from the south,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and drug runners are trying to move
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the park and get into Brazil.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This, in the past, is why you didn't mess
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with isolated Indians,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if it looks like this\Npicture is out of focus
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it was taken\Nin a hurry, here's why.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This looks like — (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This looks like a hangar\Nfrom the Brazilian Amazon.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an art exhibit in Havana, Cuba.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A group called Los Carpinteros.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is their perception\Nof why you shouldn't
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mess with uncontacted Indians.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the world is changing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are Mascoteros\Non the Brazil-Peru border
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who stumbled out of the jungle
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they were essentially chased out
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by drug runners and timber people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in Peru, there's\Na very nasty business.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's called human safaris.