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All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.

I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.