“sitting in hospital waiting rooms with Indians he’d brought in from the bush, encountering the blatant racism that so often attended such experiences—the refusal to treat, the willful neglect. He’d once pulled his gun on hospital security guards when they… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“In another time and place, the Texeiras would have been hailed as model citizens, environmental stewards, exactly the kind of decent, hardworking settlers an Ohio-born nun named Dorothy Stang was organizing farther east in the state of Pará to resist… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“Like the rest of her people, back then she’d thought that the whites were but a handful, and she proposed wiping them out once… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“One official in the state oil company likened the tribes to the Loch Ness monster, a mere figment of the imagination concocted by environmentalists… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“an even more withering drought returned in 2010. Billions more trees perished, releasing their stored carbon. For the first time, the Amazon had become… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“The government exists for one purpose—to take everything away from you.” — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“The monstrosity was topped by a gray, weather-beaten shack, the living quarters, whose upper story was peppered full of bullet holes and buckshot, eloquent… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“The plane reportedly made a first pass over the village, dumping packets of sugar to lure a crowd to the central plaza. Then it… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“counting their 4 percent share as they drilled away at the riverbank and leached out the gold into dull yellow cakes” — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“His intentions were pure, at least he thought so; he wanted to get the Indians to medical care quickly. But the more he thought… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“Which smells more—one piece of shit or two? Take deforestation. You cut down the forests, and you destroy the flora, the fauna, the rivers.… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“the original Americans were undoubtedly better off before our European forebears arrived at their shores. And if there were still some final holdouts, like… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“You know, Indians don’t attack whites just because they like to or because it’s their nature,” Possuelo said, imparting a quick civics lesson. “They… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“When the waitress came to take our order, I ordered an ice-cold Coke. Guzzling it down in no time flat, I was left with… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
