You may remember that I took a trip to the Amazon rain forest last year where I got to spend the night with an Achuar family. It was an amazing experience and I learned a lot about what native peoples are up against in their daily challenges to protect their way of life. It was also a very primative place, where people live off the land and survival is not assured. They had no electricity, no running water and no bathrooms.
So, what happens when you take a group of these folks out of the rain forest and into the big city to watch (in many cases) their first movie? And what if that movie is Avatar, a 3-D extravaganza about saving a native people's way of life? You get some interesting reactions. Check out the full story on NPR.
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