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LaTrobe University professor Alexandra Aikhenvald says contact with white people has not brought much good to Indigenous tribes in history so far. Prof Aikhenvald strongly doubts the tribe has never had contact with white people, but says it is not impossible. “Many of them had contact with white people at different times in the past [but] basically in the 19th Century and then during the rubber boom, many of them just fled,” she said. “Maybe they are descendants of those groups that fled from white supremacy maybe 100 or more years ago. More

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