Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about

somebody who the media has described as the man of the whole. That's the term that they've latched on to in this coverage.

Another nickname that he'd been given

was the loneliest man in the world world and I think that's probably more appropriate.

He lived in the Amazon for a quarter of a century by himself.

He was the last remaining member of his community,

part of an indigenous group that had run into some issues with cattle ranchers who wanted their land.

This led to attacks in the 1970s, and it culminated in I want to say 95 when he was the only one left, the last of his group. He died. Now they're

saying that he had made preparations.

There were colored feathers around him,

as if it was some right. But there's very little known about his community and their

customs and traditions because when they did have contact it didn't go well.

I want to read this.

No outsider knew this man's name. this.

No outsider knew this man's name or even very much about his tribe.

And with his death, the genocide of his people is complete.

For this was indeed a genocide, the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers, hungry

for land and wealth.

He symbolized both the appalling violence and cruelty inflicted on indigenous peoples worldwide in the name of colonization and profit, but also their resistance.

We can only imagine what horrors he had witnessed in his life and the

loneliness of his existence after the rest of his tribe were killed. But he determinedly resisted all attempts at contact and

made it clear that he just wanted to be left alone. That is Theona Watson. She's Survival International's

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