{"id":64053,"date":"2024-06-02T04:38:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T04:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/02\/the-internets-final-frontier-remote-amazon-tribes\/"},"modified":"2024-06-02T04:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T04:38:20","slug":"the-internets-final-frontier-remote-amazon-tribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/02\/the-internets-final-frontier-remote-amazon-tribes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet\u2019s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/02\/world\/02brazil-starlink-tribe-promo\/02brazil-starlink-tribe-promo-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Internet\u2019s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes\" title=\"The Internet\u2019s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the speeches dragged on, eyes drifted to screens. Teenagers scrolled Instagram. One man texted his girlfriend. And men crowded around a phone streaming a soccer match while the group\u2019s first female leader spoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just about anywhere, a scene like this would be mundane. But this was happening in a remote Indigenous village in one of the most isolated stretches of the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Marubo people have long lived in communal huts scattered hundreds of miles along the Itu\u00ed River deep in the Amazon rainforest. They speak their own language, take ayahuasca to connect with forest spirits and trap spider monkeys to make soup or keep as pets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They have preserved this way of life for hundreds of years through isolation \u2014 some villages can take a week to reach. But since September, the Marubo have had high-speed internet thanks to Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 2,000-member tribe is one of hundreds across Brazil that are suddenly logging on with Starlink, the satellite-internet service from Space X, Mr. Musk\u2019s private space company. Since its entry into Brazil in 2022, Starlink has swept across the world\u2019s largest rainforest, bringing the web to one of the last offline places on Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The New York Times traveled deep into the Amazon to visit Marubo villages to understand what happens when a tiny, closed civilization suddenly opens to the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen it arrived, everyone was happy,\u201d said Tsainama Marubo, 73, sitting on the dirt floor of her village\u2019s maloca, a 50-foot-tall hut where the Marubo sleep, cook and eat together. The internet brought clear benefits, like video chats with faraway loved ones and calls for help in emergencies. \u201cBut now, things have gotten worse,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She was kneading jenipapo berries to make a black body paint and wearing ropes of jewelry made from snail shells. Lately, the youth had become less interested in making such dyes and jewelry, she said. \u201cYoung people have gotten lazy because of the internet,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re learning the ways of the white people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then she paused and added, \u201cBut please don\u2019t take our internet away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Marubo are struggling with the internet\u2019s fundamental dilemma: It has become essential \u2014 at a cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After only nine months with Starlink, the Marubo are already grappling with the same challenges that have racked American households for years: teenagers glued to phones; group chats full of gossip; addictive social networks; online strangers; violent video games; scams; misinformation; and minors watching pornography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Modern society has dealt with these issues over decades as the internet continued its relentless march. The Marubo and other Indigenous tribes, who have resisted modernity for generations, are now confronting the internet\u2019s potential and peril all at once, while debating what it will mean for their identity and culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That debate has arrived now because of Starlink, which has quickly <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/07\/28\/business\/starlink.html\" title=\"\">dominated the satellite-internet market<\/a> worldwide by providing service once unthinkable in such remote areas. SpaceX has done so by launching 6,000 low-orbiting Starlink satellites \u2014 roughly 60 percent of all active spacecraft \u2014 to deliver speeds faster than many home internet connections to just about anywhere on Earth, including the Sahara, the Mongolian grasslands and tiny Pacific islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Business is soaring. Mr. Musk <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1792690117947314323\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced<\/a> that Starlink had surpassed three million customers across 99 countries. Analysts <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/payloadspace.com\/predicting-spacexs-2024-revenue\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">estimate<\/a> that annual sales are up roughly 80 percent from last year, to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/finance\/2024\/05\/09\/starlink-on-track-to-hit-6-6b-in-revenue-this-year-quilty-report-estimates\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">about $6.6 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Starlink\u2019s rise has given Mr. Musk control of a technology that has become critical infrastructure in many parts of the globe. It is being used by troops in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/07\/28\/business\/starlink.html\" title=\"\">Ukraine<\/a>, paramilitary forces in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/telecom\/starlink-musk-ukraine-russia-sudan-satellite-communications-technology-f4fc79d9\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sudan<\/a>, Houthi rebels in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2024-03-25\/elon-musk-s-spacex-sees-starlink-black-market-trade-grow-worldwide\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Yemen<\/a>, a hospital in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/israel-approves-starlink-services-gaza-field-hospital-statement-2024-02-14\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Gaza<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnbrasil.com.br\/internacional\/elon-musk-lamenta-enchentes-no-rs-e-anuncia-doacao-da-starlink-para-socorristas\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">emergency responders<\/a> across the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But perhaps Starlink\u2019s most transformative effect is in areas once largely out of the internet\u2019s reach, like the Amazon. There are now 66,000 active contracts in the Brazilian Amazon, touching 93 percent of the region\u2019s legal municipalities. That has opened new job and education opportunities for those who live in the forest. It has also given illegal loggers and miners in the Amazon <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/noticias.uol.com.br\/cotidiano\/ultimas-noticias\/2024\/04\/12\/ibama-apreende-antenas-starlink-internet-elon-musk-garimpo-ilegal-amazonia.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a new tool<\/a> to communicate and evade authorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One Marubo leader, Enoque Marubo (all Marubo use the same surname), 40, said he immediately saw Starlink\u2019s potential. After spending years outside the forest, he said he believed the internet could give his people new autonomy. With it, they could communicate better, inform themselves and tell their own stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, he and a Brazilian activist recorded a 50-second video seeking help getting Starlink from potential benefactors. He wore his traditional Marubo headdress and sat in the maloca. A toddler wearing a necklace of animal teeth sat nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They sent it off. Days later, they heard back from a woman in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-30799851\">The Tribe<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Javari Valley Indigenous Territory is one of the most isolated places on Earth, a dense stretch of rainforest the size of Portugal with no roads and a maze of waterways. Nineteen of the 26 tribes in the Javari Valley live in full isolation, the highest concentration in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Marubo were once uncontacted, too, roaming the forest for hundreds of years, until rubber tappers arrived near the end of the 19th century. That led to decades of violence and disease \u2014 and the arrival of new customs and technology. The Marubo began wearing clothes. Some learned Portuguese. They swapped bows for firearms to hunt wild boar, and machetes for chain saws to clear plots for cassava.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One family in particular pushed this change. In the 1960s, Sebasti\u00e3o Marubo was one of the first Marubo to live outside the forest. When he returned, he brought another new technology: the boat motor. It cut trips from weeks to days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His son Enoque emerged as a leader of the next generation, eager to pull his tribe into the future. Enoque has split his life between the forest and the city, working at one point as a graphic designer for Coca-Cola. So when Marubo leaders became interested in getting internet connections, they went to him to ask how.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Enoque got his answer when Mr. Musk came to Brazil. In 2022, the SpaceX owner and Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil\u2019s president at the time, announced Starlink\u2019s arrival in front of a screen that said, \u201cConnecting the Amazon.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Enoque and Flora Dutra, a Brazilian activist who works with Indigenous tribes, sent letters to more than 100 members of Congress asking for Starlink. None responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then early last year, Ms. Dutra saw an American woman speak at a space conference. Ms. Dutra checked the woman\u2019s Facebook page and saw her posing outside SpaceX\u2019s headquarters. \u201cI knew she was the one,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-16ad6fc6\">The Benefactor<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Allyson Reneau\u2019s LinkedIn page describes her as a space consultant, keynote speaker, author, pilot, equestrian, humanitarian, chief executive, board director and mother of 11 biological children. In person, she says she makes most of her money coaching gymnastics and renting houses near Norman, Okla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her story is ripe for the \u201cToday Show\u201d \u2014 and, indeed, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/mom-of-11-heads-off-to-harvard-44558915716\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">she has told it there<\/a>. She enrolled in college at 47, got a master\u2019s degree from Harvard Extension School at 55 and then became a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/allysonreneau.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">traveling motivational speaker<\/a>. Her social media shows her with children in Rwanda, on television in Pakistan and at conferences in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The attention she has attracted has not always been well received. In 2021, she was interviewed on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/videos\/world\/2021\/08\/20\/oklahoma-mom-rescues-afghan-girls-robotic-team-keilar-intv-newday-vpx.cnn\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6269122263001\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> for \u201crescuing\u201d an all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan during the Taliban takeover. But days later, lawyers for the robotics team told Ms. Reneau to stop taking credit for a rescue she had little to do with.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Reneau said she did not try to help people for fame. \u201cOtherwise, I\u2019d be telling you about all the projects I do all over the world,\u201d she said in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s the look on the face, it\u2019s the hope in the eyes. That\u2019s the trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She said she had that perspective when she received a video from a stranger last year asking to help connect a remote Amazon tribe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She had never been to Brazil but thought the return on investment was high. Enoque was asking for 20 Starlink antennas, which would cost roughly $15,000, to transform life for his tribe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDo you remember Charlie Wilson?\u201d Ms. Reneau asked me. She was referring to the Texas congressman who secured Stinger missiles that helped the Afghan mujahedeen defeat the Soviets in the 1980s \u2014 but that critics say also unintentionally gave rise to the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Wilson changed that war with one weapon, she said. \u201cI could see that this was similar,\u201d she said. \u201cOne tool would change everything in their life. Health care, education, communication, protection of the forest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Reneau said she bought the antennas with her own money and donations from her children. Then she booked a flight to go help deliver them.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4fd5cc65\">The Connection<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The internet arrived on the backs of men. They trudged miles through the forest, barefoot or in flip-flops, carrying two antennas each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just behind were Enoque, Ms. Dutra, Ms. Reneau and a cameraman documenting her journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the villages, they nailed the antennas to the tops of poles and plugged them into solar panels. The antennas then began connecting Starlink satellites to villagers\u2019 phones. (Some Marubo already had phones, often bought with government welfare checks, to take photographs and communicate when in a city.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The internet was an immediate sensation. \u201cIt changed the routine so much that it was detrimental,\u201d Enoque admitted. \u201cIn the village, if you don\u2019t hunt, fish and plant, you don\u2019t eat.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Leaders realized they needed limits. The internet would be switched on for only two hours in the morning, five hours in the evening, and all day Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During those windows, many Marubo are crouched over or reclined in hammocks on their phones. They spend lots of time on WhatsApp. There, leaders coordinate between villages and alert the authorities to health issues and environmental destruction. Marubo teachers share lessons with students in different villages. And everyone is in much closer contact with faraway family and friends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To Enoque, the biggest benefit has been in emergencies. A venomous snake bite can require swift rescue by helicopter. Before the internet, the Marubo used amateur radio, relaying a message between several villages to reach the authorities. The internet made such calls instantaneous. \u201cIt\u2019s already saved lives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3d4e79d2\">The Debate<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In April, seven months after Starlink\u2019s arrival, more than 200 Marubo gathered in a village for meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Enoque brought a projector to show a video about bringing Starlink to the villages. As proceedings began, some leaders in the back of the audience spoke up. The internet should be turned off for the meetings, they said. \u201cI don\u2019t want people posting in the groups, taking my words out of context,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the meetings, teenagers swiped through Kwai, a Chinese-owned social network. Young boys watched videos of the Brazilian soccer star Neymar Jr. And two 15-year-old girls said they chatted with strangers on Instagram. One said she now dreamed of traveling the world, while the other wants to be a dentist in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This new window to the outside world had left many in the tribe feeling torn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSome young people maintain our traditions,\u201d said TamaSay Marubo, 42, the tribe\u2019s first woman leader. \u201cOthers just want to spend the whole afternoon on their phones.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">K\u00e2ipa Marubo, a father of three, said he was happy that the internet was helping educate his children. But he also was concerned about the first-person-shooter video games his two sons play. \u201cI\u2019m worried that they\u2019re suddenly going to want to mimic them,\u201d he said. He tried to delete the games, but believed his sons had other hidden apps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Alfredo Marubo, leader of a Marubo association of villages, has emerged as the tribe\u2019s most vocal critic of the internet. The Marubo pass down their history and culture orally, and he worries that knowledge will be lost. \u201cEveryone is so connected that sometimes they don\u2019t even talk to their own family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He is most unsettled by the pornography. He said young men were sharing explicit videos in group chats, a stunning development for a culture that frowns on kissing in public. \u201cWe\u2019re worried young people are going to want to try it,\u201d he said of the graphic sex depicted in the videos. He said some leaders had told him they had already observed more aggressive sexual behavior from young men.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Alfredo and Enoque, as the heads of dueling Marubo associations, were already political rivals, but their disagreement over the internet has created a bitter dispute. After Ms. Dutra and Ms. Reneau delivered the antennas, Alfredo reported them for lacking proper permission from federal authorities to enter protected Indigenous territory. In turn, Ms. Dutra criticized Alfredo in interviews and Enoque said he was not welcome at the tribal meetings.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-38fad700\">The Future<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Dutra now has a goal to bring Starlink to hundreds more Indigenous groups across the Amazon, including Brazil\u2019s largest remote tribe, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/25\/world\/americas\/brazil-amazon-indigenous-tribe.html\" title=\"\">the Yanomami<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some Brazilian government officials and nongovernmental agencies said they worried that the internet was being rolled out to tribes too quickly, often without training on the dangers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Dutra said Indigenous groups wanted and deserved connections. The criticism, she said, was part of a long tradition of outsiders telling the Indigenous how to live. \u201cThis is called ethnocentrism \u2014 the white man thinking they know what\u2019s best,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Enoque and Ms. Dutra said they planned to provide internet training. No Marubo interviewed said they had yet received it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In April, Ms. Reneau traveled back to the forest. At Enoque\u2019s request, she bought four more antennas. Two were headed to the Korubo, a tribe of less than 150 people that was first contacted in 1996 and still has some members in full isolation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sitting on a log, eating dried beef and boiled cassava served on the maloca\u2019s dirt floor, Ms. Reneau said she recognized the internet was \u201ca double-edged sword.\u201d So when she posts on Facebook about bringing the Marubo internet, she said, she always stresses that a leader requested it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t want people to think I\u2019m bringing this in to force it on them,\u201d she said. She added that she hoped they could \u201cpreserve the purity of this incredible culture because once it\u2019s gone, it\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Later at that same meal, Enoque\u2019s father, Sebasti\u00e3o, said the tribe\u2019s journey with the internet had been foretold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Decades ago, the most respected Marubo shaman had visions of a hand-held device that could connect with the entire world. \u201cIt would be for the good of the people,\u201d he said. \u201cBut in the end, it wouldn\u2019t be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn the end,\u201d he added, \u201cthere would be war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His son sat on the log across from him, listening. \u201cI think the internet will bring us much more benefit than harm,\u201d Enoque said, \u201cat least for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Regardless, he added, going back was no longer an option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe leaders have been clear,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can\u2019t live without the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Fl\u00e1via Milhorance<!-- --> and <!-- -->Lis Moriconi<!-- --> contributed reporting from Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/02\/world\/americas\/starlink-internet-elon-musk-brazil-amazon.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the speeches dragged on, eyes drifted to screens. Teenagers scrolled Instagram. One man texted his girlfriend. And men crowded around a phone streaming a soccer match while the group\u2019s first female leader spoke. Just about anywhere, a scene like this would be mundane. 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