““He might wish the Indians to transcend their narrow tribal interests, to see themselves not just as Matis or Marubo, Kanamari or Tsohom Djapá, but first and foremost as índios in a common struggle. But as much as he wanted that, it was still his wish, not necessarily theirs, an abstraction that, no matter how salient and beneficial to their own interests, bore the indelible mark of a white man’s mind.””
