Uprooted: Amazonian Siekopai people battle for return to ancestral land
With the Siekopai teetering on the brink of cultural extinction, their leaders say it is a matter of survival to reclaim their ancestral land -- still largely untouched in the remote heart of the Amazon.
PREMIUM Special Reports
A Siekopai indigenous woman with a traditional paint design on her face holds a child during the second binational meeting of the Siekopai Nation community in the Amazon region in Lagartococha, Peru.
By NewVision Reporter
Journalists @NewVision
They call themselves "the multicoloured people," or Siekopai, after the eye-catching traditional body paint and adornments they used to wear in their ancestral home in the heart of the Amazon