Tolai people
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Oct 4, 2026
JOE CLAYTON (PART 2): Witch doctors, illegal miners and run ins with natives
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4:31Joe ClaytonGUEST
And so when we started the mine, they were all the supervisors.
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4:35Joe ClaytonGUEST
Most of them were tallies, right? And it took me about 18 months of just talking to people and you hear all these things and you get in conversations with people.
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4:43Joe ClaytonGUEST
And what had happened was the ancestors of the Lahirians lived on the high ground behind Rabel, behind the Tolais.
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4:55Joe ClaytonGUEST
And so they didn't have much exposure to meat.
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4:59Joe ClaytonGUEST
So they were only little guys, you know, living off crops and what have you.
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5:02Joe ClaytonGUEST
And the Tolais would raid them and eat them.
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5:04Joe ClaytonGUEST
And this was 1996, 98, 97, 98, right? And there was still cannibalism in New Guinea in the 70s.
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5:16Jessica RouseHOST
Yeah.