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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2002

Orlando Villas-Boas, a Brazilian man whose exploration efforts were instrumental in creating the country's first Indian reservation, died on Thursday after a long illness. He was 88.

Villas-Boas and his brothers took part in an expedition to the country's interior. The 17-year journey started in 1943 and Villas-Boas emerged as an advocate for letting tribes run their own affairs and for protecting tribal knowledge.

"Then, the old idea that the Indian was a beast was common currency," Villas-Boas once told The New York Times. "But what we showed to Brazilian society was that we had made contact with communities that were at peace, full of joy."

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Orlando Villas-Boas, Brazilian Explorer, 88, Dies (The New York Times 12/13)
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