Journalist and author Scott Wallace has dedicated years to documenting the so-called "unconquered" tribes of South America. This hour, we sit down with Wallace who, in addition to traveling and writing, is a professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut.

We walk along the path that guided Wallace into the thick of the Amazon, and learn about the issues threatening the forest's most isolated people today. 

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GUEST:
Scott Wallace - Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Connecticut; he’s also a contributor to National Geographic and author of The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes (@wallacescott)

READING LIST:

National Geographic: Isolated Nomads Are Under Siege in the Amazon Jungle - "The government agency responsible for indigenous affairs is Fundação Nacional do Índio, or FUNAI. The agency’s Department of Isolated and Recently Contacted Indians has placed Arariboia at the top of a list of Amazonian flash points, where tribes are at greatest risk of imminent contact. But severe cuts to FUNAI’s budget have made it all the more challenging to safeguard isolated tribes such as the Awá from the inexorable pressures of a resource-hungry global economy."

Journalist and author&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.08px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0.4px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" href="https://scottwallace.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Wallace</a>&nbsp;has dedicated years to documenting the so-called "unconquered" tribes of South America. This hour, we sit down with Wallace who, in addition to traveling and writing, is a professor of journalism at the University of Connecticut.
We walk along the path that guided Wallace into the thick of the Amazon, and learn about the issues threatening the forest's most isolated people today.&nbsp;
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: #3d3d3d; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: 0.08px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0.4px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Join the conversation on&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;" href="http://facebook.com/wherewelive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;" href="http://twitter.com/wherewelive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>.
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<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.1rem; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: outside; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.08px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0.4px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5;">Scott Wallace&nbsp;- Associate Professor of Journalism at the&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;" href="https://uconn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Connecticut</a>; he&rsquo;s also a contributor to&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;" href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/contributors/w/scott-wallace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Geographic&nbsp;</a>and author of&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;" href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/185137/the-unconquered-by-scott-wallace/9780307462978/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes</a>&nbsp;(<a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;" href="https://twitter.com/wallacescott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@wallacescott</a>)</li>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: #3d3d3d; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: 0.08px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0.4px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">READING LIST:
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 1.75em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: #3d3d3d; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: 0.08px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0.4px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">National Geographic:&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;" href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/10/isolated-brazil-peru-amazon-tribes-remote-protected/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Isolated Nomads Are Under Siege in the Amazon Jungle</a>&nbsp;- "The government agency responsible for indigenous affairs is Funda&ccedil;&atilde;o Nacional do &Iacute;ndio, or FUNAI. The agency&rsquo;s Department of Isolated and Recently Contacted Indians has placed Arariboia at the top of a list of Amazonian flash points, where tribes are at greatest risk of imminent contact. But severe cuts to FUNAI&rsquo;s budget have made it all the more challenging to safeguard isolated tribes such as the Aw&aacute; from the inexorable pressures of a resource-hungry global economy."

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Produced by Connecticut Public, '<a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/about">Where We Live'</a> puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

Where We Live is a call-in talk show about who we are in Connecticut and our place in the world.

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Produced by Connecticut Public, '<a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/about">Where We Live'</a> puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

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