Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil

BBC News ^ | 5/30/08 | BBC

[abishai]

So I would advise all my self-assured, self-righteous evangelical brothers...

Project much?

[GulfBreeze]

Anger issues anyone?

[Natchez Hawk]

Ha! You got me there. Sorry, had a flashback to my roommate first year of college.

[DannyTN]

Yesterday they were red.

Today they are spotted.

[teddyballgame]

Look closely, one has a “Family Guy” t-shirt and another’s wearing an iPod.

[RightWhale]

This primitive tribe is getting tired of being ‘spotted.’

[Natchez Hawk]

For the best. It would be fun to hunt and fish all day. But without beer...

[Lucretia Borgia]

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.

[maine-iac7]

Well now, seems that since they are so dedicated to prove that there's a hitherto unknown population of natives - they'd film more than 3-4 straw dwellings in a tiny clearing with a handful of people.

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.

[rottndog]

Survival International says that although this particular group is increasing in number, others in the area are at risk from illegal logging.

If Survival International truly wanted to help...they would support increased logging in the US to drive down the price of timber.

[waverna]

What must they have thought of the ‘aeroplane’ taking their picture?

[popdonnelly]

“Looks like they found DU’s headquarters.”

Nah, this tribe still has enough sense to defend itself.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

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

[pissant]

And we are doing them a favor by no contact with modernity? What kind of horsepoop is that.

[hockea]

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?

[uglybiker]

PING

[mjp]

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.

[zeebee]

Right.

They will be extinct by the nature of their inbreeding, as have probably millions of other tribes like them in the past.

[fish hawk]

The guy with the spear is Tom Berenger and this is a scene from “At Play In The Fields Of The Lord”. Good movie, by the way.

[zeebee]