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Clash of Cultures as Amazon Cowboys Close In on Indigenous Lands

Agence France-Presse

   MONTE NEGRO, BRAZIL - As evening falls over their Amazon home, the
   hunter gatherers of the Uru-eu-wau-wau people extract bamboo arrows
   from the flank of a wild pig and begin roasting it.

   A few miles -- and a world -- away on the opposite side of the
   rainforest's delicate existential divide, cowboys on horseback round up
   cattle at the outer reaches of a vast ranch.

   "We have no problem with them," said Awapy Uru-eu-wau-wau, the young
   chief of the 19-person forest community in central Rondonia state.

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