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Kumaré Txicão

"My First Contact"My First Contact
(2005, 56 min.) BRAZIL
Director: Mari Corrêa and Kumaré Txicão (Ikpeng)
Produced by: Video nas Aldeias/Video in the Villages
In Ikpeng and Portuguese with English subtitles.

Thirty-eight years after their first contact, Ikpeng people reminisce with a mixture of sadness, humor and nostalgia about a time when ''white men" were unknown They discuss the changes that have come in the wake of this irreversible moment in their history.

Image credit: Kumaré Txicão - courtesy of the Video in the Villages website; My First Contact - courtesy of Video Nas Aldeias

Mari Corrêa

Kumaré Txicão

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