Gladwyn d’Souza<p>The population is thought to have plummeted during the 19th and 20th centuries as members retreated deeper into the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/rainforest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rainforest</span></a> to escape the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/rubberboom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rubberboom</span></a> and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/enslavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>enslavers</span></a> who drove it.</p><p>By 1959, when <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/missionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>missionaries</span></a> convinced the Iskonawa to settle in a village where they could be <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/evangelized" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evangelized</span></a>, there were around 100 left.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BoardingSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BoardingSchools</span></a> <br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ReligousDogma" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReligousDogma</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Monocultures" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Monocultures</span></a></p>