Posted on 05/30/2008 6:59:01 AM PDT by zeebee
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.
'Monumental crime'
Survival International says that although this particular group is increasing in number, others in the area are at risk from illegal logging.
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"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".
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Project much?
Anger issues anyone?
Ha! You got me there. Sorry, had a flashback to my roommate first year of college.
Yesterday they were red.
Today they are spotted.
Look closely, one has a “Family Guy” t-shirt and another’s wearing an iPod.
This primitive tribe is getting tired of being ‘spotted.’
For the best. It would be fun to hunt and fish all day. But without beer...
One of South America’s few remaining uncontacted tribes....
...but on subsequent investigation, they were discovered to be merely the descendants of a band of American hippies who moved to Peru to found a commune in 1969.
Like I mentioned, we've seen this ruse before...
To definitively prove this is, indeed, a tribe newly discovered, it would - under any scientific measure I can think of - require much more documentation.
A tribe who has managed to survive for millennia, isolated in the jungles of Peru - or anywhere - would require a much bigger poplulation and many more dwellings.
What must they have thought of the ‘aeroplane’ taking their picture?
“Looks like they found DU’s headquarters.”
Nah, this tribe still has enough sense to defend itself.
It is staged...again.....as a ploy to put money in the hands of the envirowhackos who would save these people from the evil loggers
And we are doing them a favor by no contact with modernity? What kind of horsepoop is that.
Is it just my failing eyesight or does the person in the lower right of the photo appear to be ready to shoot a bow at the aircraft?
PING
Gee, even these people are smart enough to have an instinct for self preservation against an apparent threat. They are smarter than dumocraps by far.
Right.
They will be extinct by the nature of their inbreeding, as have probably millions of other tribes like them in the past.
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