Xingu Indians pay highest homage to pioneering Indian defenders AP Online | August 30, 1998| | . This material is published under license from the Associated Press. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Associated Press. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

MICHAEL ASTOR Associated Press Writer
AP Online
08-30-1998
ALTO XINGU, Brazil (AP) _ It was a bittersweet moment for Orlando Villas Boas when he stepped off the small, propeller plane and onto the reservation where he lived among the Xingu Indians for three decades.

Indians, naked except for belts of brightly colored cotton and red body paint, rushed to greet him at the landing strip on the edge of the village, a ring of grass-thatched longhouses around a sandy circle carved out of the jungle.

Villas Boas hadn't been back in 14 years and there was a lot of hugging and catching up to ...

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