When smoke penetrated the Yanomami Indian reservation in Braziltwo months ago, the shamans of the Yanomami, the largest recentlydiscovered indigenous people in the Americas, recognized it as theancient sign of Armageddon.
The choking clouds were quite logical: The "white men" were atit again, they believed, and this time, the Earth had simply hadenough.
"The ground has been disturbed, and when that happens, thelegend says a great smoke comes and hell is close," said DaviKopenawa Yanomami, a celebrated protector of his tribe, referring tofires in the northern Amazon started by the slash-and-burnagriculture of encroaching Brazilian settlers. The burnings, most …
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