Mamai Lucille Williams, a quiet symbol of dignity amid destruction, has died, aged about 93
via news.mongabay.com
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When the miners came, Mamai Lucille Williams was well into her eighties. Her house in Karisparu, a Patamona village high in Guyana’s North Pakaraimas, stood on the same patch of ground where she had lived since childhood. Around it grew cassava, bananas, and fruit trees she had planted herself, each one a small act of […]