The Korubo or Korubu, also known as the Dslala, are a largely uncontacted, Panoan-speaking indigenous people of Brazil living in the lower Vale do Javari in the western Amazon Basin.
Much of what the outside world knows of this group is based on the research of Brazilian explorer Sydney Possuelo, who first contacted the tribe in October 1996, and journalist Paul Raffaele.
The Flecheiros live in the far west of Brazil, in the Vale do Javari Indigenous Territory, an area covering 83,000 square kilometres (32,000 sq mi).
Contact with uncontacted peoples is prohibited by the government of Brazil, even with respect to other indigenous groups living traditional lifeways, but state capacity is low in these areas and monitoring or enforcement is difficult.
Logging and other economic activity along the Itui river in the 1960s precipitated a series of violent clashes with the Korubo which caused Brazil's FUNAI to initiate contact in the early 1970s.
Contact was difficult to establish and the agency lost seven civil servants in attempts to establish a peaceful relation with them, including FUNAI member (and close friend of Syndey Possuelo) Raimundo (Sobral) Batista Magalhães, on August 22, 1997 by Korubo warrior Ta'avan.[1].
[2] Population figures of the main tribe are unknown but estimated from aerial reconnaissance of houses to be a few hundred individuals.