One of South America’s few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru. The Brazilian government says it took the images to prove the tribe exists and help protect its land. The pictures, taken from an aeroplane, show red-painted tribe members brandishing bows and arrows. More than half the world’s 100 uncontacted tribes live in Brazil or Peru, Survival International says. Stephen Corry, the director of the group – which supports tribal people around the world – said such tribes would “soon be made extinct” if their land was not protected.
Survival International says that although this particular group is increasing in number, others in the area are at risk from illegal logging. The photos were taken during several flights over one of the most remote parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil’s Acre region. They show tribe members outside thatched huts, surrounded by the dense jungle, pointing bows and arrows up at the camera. “We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,” the group quoted Jose Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior, an official in the Brazilian government’s Indian affairs department, as saying. “This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence.” He described the threats to such tribes and their land as “a monumental crime against the natural world” and “further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the ‘civilised’ ones, treat the world”.
Here’s a link to another great photo of tribal members attempting to shoot down the plane.
Whoops! Our bad!! It’s not uncontacted Amazonians – it’s one of our offshore support centers. I recognize Tommy, Vicki, Jimmy, Betty, Bob, Sandy and a few others.
Why do I think this is a steamy load of BS.
Been awile since the media got burn on one of these fake news bits.
“that latin america would be a successful society had the Euopeans not interfered ”
Except for the human sacerfice and slavery.
As for japan they had some interesting societal habits till we got their minds right. Corse some people still go over there every year to apoligise for bringing them into the 20th century.
>>I’d love to learn about the crazy religion
>>they practice.
Now there’s some cultural sensitivity for ya!!
JulieB, no matter WHAT religion they practice, you would lampoon it as crazy. Unless it was worshipping at the altar of quad-core processors, or subatomic physics, or any other of a million things that “civilized” folks like to think they understand, but actually take on faith from their High Priests.
And as to your derogatory comments about them shooting bows and arrows at aircraft, pffft. What else would you expect them to do? Pray? You’d lampoon them even more for that. What if shape-shifting, time-traveling aliens from outer space with technology we couldn’t understand attacked earth and we shot at them with our state of the art weapons? Would you laugh at us too for our naivete? Or would you recommend that we pray? Or just lie down and die?
I HIGHLY THINK DAT MODERNIZATION OF THIS TRIBE IS GOING TO BE HIGHLY STUPID. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN MEDICINE. THEY CAN TAKE GOOD CARE OF THEMSELVES USING WHAT THEY HAVE IN THE AMAZON. DO NOT TOUCH THEM. I KNOW THEY’RE GONNA TRY TO SEND SOME IDIOT PRIEST OR MISSIONARY THERE THINKIN THAT THEY CAN TEACH THE WORLD THEIR RELIGION. I HOPE THEY GET KILLED IF SO. FOR INTERFERING WITH ONE OF THE FEW CULTURES IN THE WORLD THAT HAVE NOT BEEN TOUCHED. LEAVE THEM ALONE WITH THEIR WAYS. RESPECT WHO THEY ARE AND DON’T TRY TO UNDERSTAND THEIR WAYS OR HAVE THEM UNDERSTAND OUR.
I AGREE WITH WHAT Mister Mustard HAS SAID. BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE IGNORANT TO SUCH THINGS. TO THEM BEING “INDIAN” OR BETTER YET NATIVE IS PART OF A PRIMITIVE WORLD. WHEN IN REALITY THEY PROBABLY HAVE MORE CULTURE AND ARE MORE HONEST THAN WE ARE. THEY ARE AN UNTOUCHED TRIBE AND SHOULD NOT BE BOTHERED. THEY ARENT MANY OF THE SUCH IN BRAZIL AND THIS ONE WERE RECENTLY DISCOVERED. LEAVE THEM ALONE.
#40 – Leepe
Can you repeat that… I didn’t hear you…
This could so easily be a hoax. I’m with Lou on this one.
Oh my God! Let’s get American-style democracy imposed on these people stat!
They may have been know since 1910. What you see in the pictures makes it clear they don’t have much if any knowledge about the outside world. There are a few such scattered groups that have been deliberately left alone because contact with outsiders brings diseases to which they have no resistance.
If left alone on their own lands they will survive. Let the loggers move in and in a few years all that will be left is a few sites for some dude to study before they get bulldozed.