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Amazement. Photograph of an Ashaninka (Campa) Indian watching in
amazement as a missionary plane from SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) lands
at the earthen airstrip in the village of Quempiri, Peru in the year 1966.
The Jungle Aviation and Radio Service (JAARS) was founded by American
missionaries in Peru during the 1940s. JAARS was very active during the
1960s flying Christian missionaries and linguists from SIL into isolated
indigenous villages located in the Amazon Rainforest. Incredibly, the
first outsiders that many previously uncontacted tribes such as the Ashaninkas met
were not Peruvians or Brazilians, but rather Americans. American explorer
Chuck Clark worked as a photographer for SIL in the 1960s and was one of the first
people to meet these native Amazonians who until that time lived in voluntary
isolation from Western society.
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