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• The Homelands Blog

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  May 3, 2010

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• Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero

  Vanishing Homelands

  Saving Jungle Souls

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  Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero

  Vanishing Homelands

  Saving Jungle Souls

  The story of Bolivia’s nomadic Yuqui Indians and the American Evangelical Christians who coaxed them out of the jungle. The first story in the Vanishing Homelands series.

  On Friday, October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus wrote in his journal: “At dawn we saw naked people.”

  It was the day Columbus and his men walked upon a new world for the first time. They planted flags with crosses on a small island in the Bahamas. He gave the natives red hats and glass beads. These Indians, he wrote, “ought to make good and skilled servants… They can easily be made into Christians.”

  Today, just as in the time of Columbus, Christian missionaries bearing gifts and promises of salvation venture into the last of these hidden outposts to try to save the lost souls of the jungle.

  Sandy Tolan and Nancy Postero bring us the story of the Yuqui Indians, 130 forest-dwelling nomads in Bolivia, and the Evangelical Christians who coaxed them out of the jungle.

  Narration is by Edward James Olmos, who hosted a series of 13 half-hour Vanishing Homelands specials.

  Date

  November 4, 1991

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  All Things Considered

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  Themes: Culture, Environment

  Regions: South America

  Media: Audio

  Other Contributors: Sandy Tolan

  Other Tags: Amazon, Bolivia, Evangelical Christianity, missionaries