Comments on: ‘Lost’ Amazon Tribe Is A Hoax!

By: ol,waterman

ol,waterman — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:25:41 +0000

“maybe you’d prefer living in your mud hut without a care in the world.”I really doubt that they do not have a care in the world.

By: Flavio

Flavio — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:04:11 +0000

Guys, this is what a terrible translation (or the eager to generate traffic) can do.

Brazil’s FUNAI officials NEVER said that the tribe was unknown, secret or anything else. They were just an uncontacted tribe.

Brazilian government actually said that they new the tribe’s localization, the number of components, etc because they used a remote sensing airplane before that found their position.

Funai only needed a more concrete proof to protect the tribe from contact with us (bad white people that don’t even know how to translate a press release from Portuguese to English).

Best,
Flavio
Brazil

By: Mister Mustard

Mister Mustard — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:19:30 +0000

#10 – JPV

>>it was obviously a hoax.

Well, looks like it turns out that it wasn’t a hoax at all, other than the claim that it was a secret, heretofor-unknown tribe.

The whole rest of the story seems to have been 100% correct.

By: Shin

Shin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:08:41 +0000

It becomes a lab experiment if I dropped you in the middle of the rain forest and said live there. As it is..it’s no more a lab experiment watching your neighbors come and go. If you were living in a double wide and someone appeared and showed you a mansion with servants and unlimited funds, etc., maybe you’d like it better. Hmmm…the choice would be nice wouldn’t it…^_^

By: tjmcgee

tjmcgee — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:20:20 +0000

#9
I agree completely. I read the article in the same way you did. It’s almost as if someone misunderstood the original article and then was disappointed when their mistaken assumptions were challenged. I think what’s truly amazing about this is that people think the photos are faked or that it’s “obviously” a hoax. Why would you think this? That is an authentic photo of native people after all.

By: JPV

JPV — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:39:26 +0000

It was obviously a hoax. The shocking thing is how many people fell for it, including the media… errr, never mind.

By: gmknobl

gmknobl — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:26:39 +0000

It was never a hoax that I heard. When I learned of it weeks ago, it was reported that people knew of their existence and only took to flying low enough to photo them to prove to Peru (or some other country) that these people existed so large corporations wouldn’t be free to come in and get these people killed and ruin their culture. It was said at that time that these tribes have many or may be entirely the result of survivors from first contact experiences with the outside world. Either violence was perpetrated against tribes to get uncontested access to the land and resources on it or disease ravaged tribes from meeting outsiders and the survivors fled inwards, deeper into the forest.

No hoax. Reality.

By: English Vibrato

English Vibrato — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:45:08 +0000

Absolute insanity.

By: chuck

chuck — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:17:27 +0000

It all sounds like someone likes the “Prime Directive” a little too much here.

Ok, on the one hand, the people have a right to be left alone.

On the other hand, they’ve never been given a choice.

If you were living in a mud hut in a jungle and someone appeared and showed you a house, a bed with blankets, etc, maybe you’d like it better. Or maybe you’d prefer living in your mud hut without a care in the world. But the choice would be nice.

Aren’t we just treating these people like rats in a lab experiment ?

By: Mister Mustard

Mister Mustard — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:24:05 +0000

Doesn’t seem like a “hoax” to me. A “hoax” would be photoshopped photos or staged pics taken in a state park somewhere.

There’s an isolated tribe that has never been in contact with outside society. That’s interesting stuff. So a couple of people knew about it. Most of the world didn’t.

I call a hoax on the hoax call.

By: lou

lou — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:18:16 +0000

I knew it was a load of crap.
I like it when the media gets burt on a story like this.
Just like when they all got caught cheerleading the Iraq war.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:16:25 +0000

Too bad a story has to be blown up and sensationalized to get our attention – It’s cool whether someone knew about them before or not. I didn’t know about them.

By: Esteban

Esteban — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:47:04 +0000

I figured it was a hoax when you published the original story.

By: kanthalion

kanthalion — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:31:20 +0000

I dunno, I still think that the pics look suspiciously ‘shopped.

By: Hoamie

Hoamie — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:22:59 +0000

who cares if their existence was already known about- it is still quite special to see a tribe of primitive natives in the wild. like most other endangered species, they are becoming more and more rare to see and will soon disappear altogether.