Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
T H R E E
Hunting Indians
“
Well, we have worked with a lot of Indians before but this is about the Indian-
est yet.” Later he said to us, “And this is about the Indianest I want to get,
too!”
N o r m a N K e e f e
The story of the Areguede'urasade is inseparable from sto-
ries about earlier Totobiegosode contacts. These, in turn, are
invariably about missionaries. The most widely told story
about Totobiegosode contact begins with some version of
the following events.
In late December 1986, the New Tribes Mission pilot
Dean Lattin spotted a column of smoke. On December 26,
he made another flight to the area and located a camp of
forest Totobiegosode with a communal house and eleven
fresh garden patches. On December 27, missionaries took a
group of thirty-four Christian Guidaigosode Ayoreo eighty-
six kilometers to the northwest of the mission Campo Loro,
to the nearest spot reachable by truck. On December 30, the
mission group neared the camp of the forest Totobiegosode,
who had seen the airplane and prepared defenses: a thick
thorn barrier, dug up ground.
When the mission group approached the next morn-
ing at dawn, the leaders of the Totobiegosode, Aasi and
Ducubaide, sent the eight women and the children to hide
near the gardens with one man, Yoteuoi, to protect them.
The other nine men lined up, painted for war. The mis-
sion group yelled that they came in peace and proceeded
to walk into the village. They were led by Jochade, a Toto-
biegose who had been captured in 1979 along with the rest
of Pejeide's band.
