Earlier than contact – Survival Worldwide

The fixed incursions of outsiders meant Parojnai and his household continually needed to transfer camp. Every sudden transfer meant the lack of the crops they’d planted, and infrequently their treasured possessions reminiscent of cooking pots and instruments.

Parojnai: ‘We heard the noise of the bulldozer. We needed to run away instantly, however fortunately we had been in a position to take all our issues.

‘We spent the night time up within the forest, however we needed to stand up earlier than daybreak as a result of we had been afraid, and as we had been getting up we heard the noise of the bulldozer once more.

‘It began to come back nearer to us. My spouse needed to go away the fruit of the najnuñane (carob tree) which she had already picked. We needed to go away another issues as properly to run quicker due to the bulldozer.

‘We ran from one place to a different. It regarded just like the bulldozer was following us. I needed to go away my instruments, my bow, my rope to run quicker. Eventually, the bulldozer left in one other path. Once I realised that the bulldozer had gone in one other path, I discovered a trunk with a beehive in it, and I took the honey.

‘We thought that the bulldozer might see us. We had planted many crops within the backyard [melon, beans, pumpkin and corn] as a result of it was summer season. We thought that the bulldozer had seen our backyard and got here to eat the fruit – and to eat us too. The bulldozer opened a path up proper beside our backyard, that’s why we had been so frightened of it.

‘We have now all the time seen airplanes, however we didn’t know that it was one thing helpful of the cojñone [white people, literally strange people]. We additionally noticed lengthy clouds behind the airplane which frightened us, as a result of we thought that one thing may fall on us. After we noticed these large planes with this white smoke behind, we thought they had been stars.’