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Richard Reese 144 Mengatohue the shaman was there. He was Moi’s (spiritual, not genetic) grandfather. Everyone called him grandfather. He had zero teeth. Joe Kane s…more144 Mengatohue the shaman was there. He was Moi’s (spiritual, not genetic) grandfather. Everyone called him grandfather. He had zero teeth. Joe Kane spent a lot of time with him. 145 He could enter an ayahuasca trance and become a jaguar. Missionaries called him an agent of the Devil.

191 Joe Kane met Randy Borman, a 38-year old American, who had married into the Cofan tribe. 192 He is the leader of what remains of the Cofan nation. 193 Borman was born in the Oriente, from American parents, who were missionaries. During his boyhood, the Cofans still enjoyed health and abundance. Then, Texaco arrived. Borman defended the missionaries, but admitted mistakes. 194 In 1972, he returned home, to discover a thriving nightmare. Missionaries won them rights to 9,000 acres, and Texaco built a road right across it. Maybe 600 Cofans survive, scattered, in abject poverty — ethnocide.
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