Posted on 08/21/2013 2:43:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Members of an Indian tribe that has long lived in voluntary isolation in Peru’s south-eastern Amazon have attempted to make contact with outsiders in a tense encounter that almost ended in violence.
More than 100 members of Mashco-Piro clan appeared across the Las Piedras river from the remote community of Monte Salvado in the Tambopata region of Madre de Dios state in June.
They asked for bananas, rope and machetes from the local Yine people but were stopped from crossing the river by rangers posted at the settlement who directed them to a banana patch on their side of the river. The incident was caught on a video shot by one of the rangers.
“You can see in the images there was a lot of threatening – the intention of crossing. They practically reached mid-river,” said Klaus Quicque, president of the regional FENAMAD indigenous federation.
The footage shows Mashco-Piro of all ages and sexes, including men with lances, bows and arrows. In one image shot during a moment of tension, a man flexes his bow, ready to shoot.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Bananas must be in short supply,, bummer, probably global varming or urban development.. Or they wanted trade in their smartphones.. Jaaaa
They ran out of bananas, so they had to go to the Chik Fil-A.
The law needs to step in then. The prime directive be damned!
They came out to demand fiber broadband connections. Trying to watch Netflix over dialup is primitive as hell.
If Obama admits them to the U.S. and gives them food stamps, will they vote for him?
Hilary 2016!
One of these days, I may be so desperate, chickmfil-a that is, I’m wendysnkind of guy, the poodles love bananas BTW..
Sounds like effective border security to me ...
It’s not hard to see why so many indigenous peoples had to be exterminated when they were unable to join civilization.
So much for open borders.
All because they live off the grid.
Why does that woman have three arms?
Oh heck, that’s gross looking!!
er... that woman have three arms? or is that a deformed leg?
Of interest...
That was my question.
Either that or she’s got the longest toes I’ve
ever seen!
We don't need no stinkin' bananas!
Sounds like they need a Walmart.
Just blew up the pic and realized her leg is crossed and the foot is in front of her hand.
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