Witoto Indians

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It was recently reported that a species of Spathiphyllum is burned and the ash leached with water to yield a powder for coating edible pellets of Virola resin used by the Witoto Indians of the Colombian Amazon (Schultes Raflauf 1990). See Chapter 3, Chemistry of Entheogemc Virola Snufis. ... 

The horror that the rubber boom brought to the Amazon Indians in the early years of this century has lived on, a memory for the oldest people and a terrifying legend for younger Indians. In the area surrounding La Chorrera, the Witoto population had been systematically reduced from forty thousand in 1905 to about five thousand in 1970.1... 

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