The population is thought to have plummeted during the 19th and 20th centuries as members retreated deeper into the #rainforest to escape the #rubberboom and the #enslavers who drove it.
By 1959, when #American #missionaries convinced the Iskonawa to settle in a village where they could be #evangelized, there were around 100 left.
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