A month with long-time friend and collaborator, tribal leader Tashka Yawanawa, in his peoples’ 225,000 hectare (almost 500,000 acres) Indigenous Reserve in the remote Western Amazon on the Rio Gregorio. Just weeks later, an historically unique swell of floods devastated most of the 16 aldeia (villages). This tribe, now well-recovering from near extinction 50 years ago,  is at the headwaters of the wave of effects of global climate change. What does it mean when a people in the heart of the rainforest take a frontline position and metabolize the impacts of massive environmental shifts? What can they teach us about how to effectively manage the transitions to come?