Nomadic Amazon tribe returns to the jungle in Colombia

(31 Aug 2006)

San Jose del Guaviare - 17 August, 2006
1. Wide of huts where Nukak people were living for months
2. Mid of huts and some Nukak on hammocks
3. Mid of Nukak people on hammocks
4. Pull of Nukak putting some poison on the arrow to hunt animals
5. Mid of Nukak woman giving food to other Nukak
6. Mid of Nukak on the hammock
7. Various of Nukak making hammocks
8. Pull of Nukak woman breastfeeding baby
9. Various of Nukak people washing themselves
10. Various of Nukak children playing in the river
11. Various of Nukak children getting down the palm trees
12. Mid shot of Nukak man looking in the mirror while he sits on the hammock
13 . SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Parit, Nukak
"Thanks to God we are going to move to another place because there are a lot of diseases from the white (referring to white people) that affect such a cold.
REPORTER QUESTION (off camera) When you leave tomorrow what are you going to do there?
ANSWER: Well, we are going to start growing yucca, bananas and some other things"

San Jose del Guaviare - 18 August 2006
14. Mid shot of Nukak people packing up their belongings to leave to another place
15. Mid shot of Nukak woman packing up her belongings with a monkey on her shoulder
16. Wide of Nukak people packing up their belongings
17. Mid shot of Nukak woman dressing her son
18. Mid shot of Nukak woman with her face painted
19. Mid shot of Nukak packing up their belongings
20. Mid shot of Nukak shaving the hair of a Nukak
21. Mid shot of Nukak woman standing up close to the palm trees
23. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Javier Maldonado, Doctor
"They (referring to Nukak people) will never return to the years when they first had the contact with white people. It's very difficult. The contact has been made and breaking that is impossible. We can not think that they are going to go back to be nomads as they used to be 20 years ago. That habit has been fragmenting through the years"
24. Wide of Nukak people getting ready to get on the trucks that will transport them to their temporary new home
25. Various of Nukak people helping each ether get on the truck
26. Mid shot of Nukak people on the truck
27. Mid shot of Nukak people getting on the truck
28. various of trucks transporting Nukak people to their temporary new home
29. Various of Nukak people on the truck while heading to their temporary new home
30. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Mao-be Nukak Sanchez, Nukak
"We are going to ask guerrillas not to bother us and to respect us the way we respect white people because we don't want to have any troubles with them. We don't want to talk to them and we don't want them to talk to us. We just want them to respect our tribe"
31. Various of Nukak carrying their belongings while they head to their new home
32. Close of Nukak woman
33. Mid shot of Nukak getting their belongings off the truck

LEAD IN :

Dozens of nomadic Indians have returned to the Amazonian rain forest in southern Colombia, after the country's four-decade old civil war forced them to flee their ancestral homeland.

But the Nukak Maku tribal members face an uncertain future.

Driving down a pothole-filled dirt road, huddled in six cargo trucks that normally carry earth and rock, the tribe is aware of the dangers they still face upon their return.

STORYLINE :

The tribe, numbering around 200, began its exodus from the jungle three years ago.

In March 2006, the last remaining tribal members decamped to a squalid tenement outside San Jose del Guaviare, a small city 280 kilometres (170 miles) southwest of Bogota, trading in their itinerant lifestyle for a sedentary one.


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