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Article

18 Oct 2009

Author:
James Temple, San Francisco Chronicle

Tribe teams with Google to make stand in Amazon

The chief of an endangered Amazon tribe will unveil today the product of an unusual partnership with Google Inc... Almir Surui…plans to showcase Google Earth images...that throw into sharp relief the rapid encroachment of illegal mining and logging onto his people's…reserve...includ[ing] layers of videos, pictures, text and historical markers gathered by tribe members…Eleven chiefs...have been shot and killed this decade, deaths members attribute to loggers and miners ..."[Almir]seemed to have a very clear sense of the appropriate use of technology for indigenous people to help them bridge that gap from their traditional ways to engaging with the modern world," said Rebecca Moore, manager of Google Earth Outreach. "We thought it would make sense for us to help."