Posted on 06/25/2011 1:10:11 PM PDT by Candor7
The Brazilian government has confirmed the existence of about 200 unidentified tribal people in the Amazon rainforest.
Satellite pictures in January revealed this community was living near the border with Peru. A flight expedition over the area in April confirmed that they are about 200 in numbers.
Along with Survival International (Funai), an organization working for tribal people's rights worldwide, Brazilian authorities found that these people are living in three clearings in the Javari Valley in the western Amazon.
According to Fabricio Amorim, who led Funai’s overflight expedition, illegal fishing, hunting, logging, mining, cattle ranching, missionary actions, drug trafficking and oil exploration on the Peru-Brazil border area are the main threats to the well-being of this community and their dwellings.
Brazil follows a policy not to contact these people, instead monitor their land so that they can live without any risk.
The community and its four straw-roofed huts were spotted in the Javari Valley, which is believed to be hiding around 2000 uncontacted tribes in the world.
Survival International has released the first, clear pictures of this ancient Amazonian tribe, who grow crops, peanuts, bananas, corns and more.
Have a look ( photos of white huts only at link)
I saw the satellite pics of their mud-huts. I wonder if they are equipped with wi-fi.
Ping to the Noble Savage.
Wi Fi, of course! Google has already been there!
Right. Teach them to blame the rich (millionaires and billionaires) on their plight.
How is a community of 200 genetically viable? There must be some intermingling with somebody.
Teach them to blame the rich for their plight.
Bush's fault!
If the environmentalists have their way, a remnant of us will be existing this way
I know somebody who subscribes to that notion. I don't waste my time, but she's always talking about how great the Indians were, in tune with the 'Earth Mother' and the rest of that nonsense. Like the Aztecs who nobly tore out a beating heart as a way to pay homage to their sun-god.
As far as war, her attitude is is that Indians were peaceful until white man showed up. It's a lost cause.
It isn't, which explains House Democrats.
Probably the only free people left on Earth.
You sure that’s not Afghanistan?
I should have used a sarc tag! I agree with you.
First they need voter registration cards and a Czar to help them fill them out. Then they will be taught that they are "victims." Poor things, how could they know the truth when they didn't even know that their oppressors exist?
National Geographics used to show real photos if the natives! :)
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