Text: THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Anastasia Moloney
The Nukak Maku is Colombia’s last known nomadic tribe. They are one of 34 indigenous groups at risk of extinction in Colombia, forced to flee their lands by warring factions in the country's 51-year conflict.
Away from their ancestral homelands, the clash with the modern world has produced a deeps sense of loss and identity the Nukak find hard to grapple with.
The Nukak first made contact with the outside world in 1988 - one of the last of Colombia's 102 tribes to do so. Disease has killed more than half of them since then, and they now number only about 500, living in settlements surrounding the town of San Jose del Guaviare a humid outpost in the Amazon 400 km (250 miles) southeast of the capital Bogota.
