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  • "For indigenous people throughout the tropical world, white sails on the ocean's horizon have often presaged death. For the Indians in the Amazon's green 'ocean' in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, death was heralded by the arrival of steam launches or gunboats bearing armed men hungry for rubber. Technology had moved on from the time of the conquistadors, and killing and slave-driving had become more efficient. Reclusive tribesmen living today in remote corners of the Peruvian selvas inherited the memory of a catastrophe proportional to the genocides of the Final Solution and the Armenian massacres."[1]
  • ”Taking a general view of the Indians in the Putumayo, I find that the Huitotos, Ocainas, and Ricigoros are the most docile and peace-loving, in that way more easily conquered ; while the Boras, Andoques and other races are of a higher type, brave, intelligent, and consequently, in the attempts made by whites to conquer them, they have suffered most and are now almost exterminated.” - Joseph Woodroffe’s book pages 158-159


  • "All these tribes, fifteen years ago, amounted to over twenty thousand persons; to-day they do not reach ten thousand. Desolation invaded these selvas together with the Aranas, worse even than the cholera morbus and the bubonic, terrible and awful plagues that from time to time leave Asia to traverse other parts of the globe, sowing panic, pain, death, and mourning." - Benjamin Saldana Rocca.[2]

"They were ordered by the manager, Senor Sanchez, and by Gleeman and Cordoba, who used to lead them on these expeditions, that if they could not catch the Indians they were to fire on them. Asked why this was done, he said it was to frighten the Indians and make them come in, because if they were killed for running away they would be less likely to run." [3]"

See rebellion of Teodomrio Gutiérrez Cuevas in Puno, Peru. Conflicts between the government of Peru and the indigenous people of Peru were more prevalent between 1914-1918 than this editor had previously thought. Also refer to rebellion of Atenas 1916, rebellion against Casa Fitzcarrald around 1915 and other caucheros around that time. Pacaya River also saw an indigenous uprising. [a]

  • find information on Teniente Aurelio E. O’Donovan, responsible for a case of human trafficking in 1912.
  • Citation for the 1908 attacks against Colombian estates to be motivated by the seizure of indigenous escape routes away from Arana's estates. See note that only appears in editor.Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).


Gaspar de Pinell referred to Casa Arana y Hernandez (presumably Cecilio Hernandez) as the sole rulers of the Igarparana and Caraprana rivers.[4]

According to Historia de la ultima hija del exodo Bora, there was a rebellion at Santa Catalina against Carlos Seminario, a manager that the natives regarded as cruel. page 5. Seminario had an indigenous concubine that was Ocaina, and he had a child with her. He fled Santa Catalina, leaving his concubine and child behind, only taking a few subordinates with him as guides and bodyguards. Seminario's concubine and child were killed by the rebels and the storeroom of Santa Catalina was looted. The native nations that apparently participated in this rebellion were "Pijuayo, Cardinal, Macaw, Nonuya, Huanchaco and the Witotos" while the Aguaje nation refused to participate. The account states that Seminario returned with the Peruvian military, a new Maloca was constructed, and a dance was held there. Seminario had the natives imprisoned when they were distracted at the dance, and the Peruvian military executed all of the natives in attendance, with the exception of the orators father. page 7-8 of the document.[b] The foreman [still Seminario?] took the remaining natives at Santa Catalina to Providencia, on the Igarparana River. A group of the Aguaje nation was transported via S.S. Liberal from Providencia to Remanso. Years later, they were transported again from Remanso to the mouth of the Algodon River, by orders of Carlos and Miguel Loayza and well as J.C. Arana. From there, a large group travelled along a road that connected to the Peruvian military garrison at Pijuayal, in Peruvian territory. This group reached the Yahuasyacu river after days of walking. The land was already occupied by Huitotos, who had migrated from the Putumayo as well. [c]

^^ COMPARE WITH PAGES 252-254 OF DEPUES DEL CAUCHO!

  1. ^ Tully 2011, p. 85.
  2. ^ Hardenburg 1912, p. 218.
  3. ^ Slavery in Peru 1913, p. 333-334.
  4. ^ de Pinell 1924, p. 78.


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