Paul Rosolie

And I went, yeah.

He goes, I need to talk to you like a friend.

I was like, yeah, shoot, shoot, go.

And he goes, you'd be an idiot to leave right now.

He goes, they're coming.

And so he convinced us to stay.

We pull our tents off the boat.

Stefan and Mohsen go off with their cameras.

They start shooting, you know, people.

These are monkey eaters and fishermen, the community that we're in.

And everything's quiet, and I opened my laptop, and I was working, just writing, writing my book.

And then it happened.

Then you start hearing people screaming, Moshko, Moshko!

And people are screaming, and women are lifting children and running into the huts, and the dogs and chickens are going nuts.

Extremely violent.

These tribes have remained alive because of their violence.

Almost like the Spartans or the Comanches, they seem to have adopted violence as a first response to contact.

Yeah.

You had colonial missionaries in the 1600s, 1700s.

Then you had the rubber barons, the late 1800s into the 1900s, just periods of extraction and domination and cruelty.