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“The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.”

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Tom Cole is an experienced American politician, born on April 28, 1949. He has been a long-serving U.S. Representative for Oklahoma, focusing on issues such as education, military, and Native American affairs during his political career. more

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