Incredible pictures of one of Earth's last uncontacted tribes firing bows and arrows

Daily Mail ^ | 5/29/08 | Michael Hanlon

[Cinnamon Girl]

Hey Michael Hanlon, how do you think these folks are going to feel when they find out their children didn’t have to die from a staff infection?

[Centurion2000]

Liberals want this for our grandchildren. Primitive, early death, low living standards while they cherry pick for cabana boys and concubines.

Liberalism = industrial feudalism.

[43north]

OK then, send them whiskey, Winchesters, and fresh horses!

[txhurl]

Wonder what’s tipping those arrows.

[JRandomFreeper]

Why is it assumed that people who live primitively, suffer from all diseases in the rain forest and believe they can take down airplanes with arrows are somehow happier living that way?

Because of the OTHER tribe.... You know, tweed suits with patched elbows, single malt scotch over ice, fights to the death over funding and their own strange and diverse behaviors in the face of real life.... You know... the anthropologists. No more feral humans, no more need for anthropologists.

/johnny

[kms61]

well, historically, contact between ‘primitive’ cultures and ‘cvilization’ usually ends up with the tribe’s being decimated, it not wiped out entirely. So, happier? Maybe not. Better off? Probably.

[RightWhale]

Uncontacted in this generation in the wilds. They can be contacted when they are shopping in town. 60s hippie commune.

[Deaf Smith]

Straight from Independence Day..."Do not shoot at the spaceships."

"They're using our own smoke signals against us."

[count-your-change]

Where is another Margaret Meade to live amongst the natives to see how they “really” live?

[weeder]

I see a plethora of Obama absentee ballots here.

[CougarGA7]

Looks like a screen capture from a video game to me.

[Crawdad]

Skin painted bright red, heads partially shaved,

Rolllll, Tiiiiide, Rollll!

[Bahbah]

The uncontacted tribes...all have one thing in common - they want to be left alone. And for good reason. The history of contact, between indigenous tribes and the outside world, has always been an unhappy one.

So does he think that they know all about that bad history and that is why they act as they do? Ridiculous.

[ElkGroveDan]

... if the UN has their way they’ll be sending condoms and free abortions.

[BushMeister]

Exactly! They look like followers of Rakanishu from Diablo II!

[feedback doctor]

. . . all have one thing in common - they want to be left alone.

And for good reason. The history of contact, between indigenous tribes and the outside world, has always been an unhappy one.

These have to be the stupidest things ever written. The writer goes to great lengths to say these people have been un-contacted by the outside world. Yet he then says that the reason they want to be left alone is because of the history of contact between tribes like them and the rest of the outside world has always been bad. Well, how do they know the history of contact between tribes like them and the outside world?

[reagan_fanatic]

Just for fun, they should have thrown down a couple of tasers and filmed the ensuing hilarity.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Rolllll, Tiiiiide, Rollll!

THAT was good for a belly-laugh!

[DannyTN]

"Why is it assumed that people who live primitively, suffer from all diseases in the rain forest and believe they can take down airplanes with arrows are somehow happier living that way?"

Don't you know? Because all cultures are equal. All religions are equal. All attitudes are equal. All sexual preferences are equal. All governments are equal.

If these people want to paint themselves red and shoot arrows at airplanes, you should let them be. If they want to strap on suicide vests and blow up Israeli children, don't you dare make cartoons of their religious leaders. If they want to be sold into child labor as prostitutes to UN officials in Africa, then what business is it of yours. Who made you, your brother's keeper?

/choking on PC..help...aaggahhaggh