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Culture shock for Amazon chief's son who left rainforest for New York
17 March 2013 Last updated at 20:26 ET Help
Nilson Tuwe Huni Kui lives a long way from New York City. In fact, the 29-year-old lives a long way from anywhere.
His village in the Amazon rainforest has a population of only 600 people and it takes five days of travelling by boat to reach the nearest town.
Yet the son of the traditional chief of the Huni Kiu Kaxinawa tribes in Brazil has swapped the rainforest for the concrete jungle, and now calls the Big Apple home.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21806193