Sebastião Salgado

About the author: Sebastião Salgado is considered one of the world's greatest photojournalists. In 1994, he embarked on a six-year project for Rolling Stone magazine, documenting mass displacement of people by war, economic change, and environmental ruin at the end of the twentieth century.

As the rain forest continues to be the target of destruction, not only are trees and animal species threatened, but so are the rain forest's indigenous tribes. The Yanonmami, Macuxi, and Marubo are three Brazilian Indian tribes whose cultures have been threatened to the point of extinction by an invasion of cattle ranchers, gold and diamond miners, and timber merchants. With the invasion of modernism and industry these Indian tribes are losing many of their traditions and customs; many have abandoned...