The Panare - Scenes from the Frontier
There are 2,000 Panare Indians living in Venezuela. Both they and their way of life have remained intact when all over South America other groups of Indians have been wiped out or, at best, changed for ever by their contact with European settlers.
The Panare are hunters and have co-existed peacefully with the Spanish-speaking cattle herders who share their territory. Now things are changing.
Unless the Panare are protected by legal title to their traditional hunting and fishing grounds, one more group of the continent's original inhabitants will fall victim to the process of ' national development
Narrator WILLIAM BOYDE
Anthropologist PAUL HENLEY Series producers
CHRIS CURLING and MELISSA L.DAVIES BBC Bristol