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Young Xikxuvo Vakwë watches as a boat arrives on the Rio Itui in the Javari Valley. Collisions with outsiders have been catastrophic for the Amazon's isolated peoples—a fate Phillips and Pereira were working to prevent.

Indigenous rights advocate Bruno Pereira (with notebook) conducts research in the Javari Valley, home to the largest concentration of uncontacted tribes in the world.

For 50 years, Hans Island, a tiny chunk of land in the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada, was at the center of an often surreal territorial dispute between Canada and Denmark. Officials from both nations took turns planting flags and bottles of whisky on the Arctic island.