“Because of contact I lost my whole family. I’m the only survivor.”

When Atxu was a child, he lived uncontacted in the Brazilian Amazon with his family. But then he was forcibly contacted, and adopted by a non-Indigenous family. He never saw his family or people again.

It wasn’t easy for him to adapt to life outside the forest, and he stresses how important it is to respect uncontacted peoples’ decision to reject contact.

Learn more about uncontacted peoples around the world, and how you can support them in their fight: uncontactedpeoples.org