Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia

Mongabay
By Jeremy HanceJun 24, 2015, 1:50 pm399 pts
In one of the great tragedies of our age, indigenous traditions, stories, cultures and knowledge are winking out across the world. Whole languages and mythologies are vanishing, and in some cases even entire indigenous groups are falling into extinction. This is what makes the news that a tribe in the Amazon…

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