Uncontacted Tribes Found & Photographed

wwfairfield

Check out how freaked these mexicans are....
can you imagine??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7426869.stm

wwfairfield

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7426794.stm

Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil

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.
The photos were taken during several flights over one of the most remote parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil's Acre region.

They show tribe members outside thatched huts, surrounded by the dense jungle, pointing bows and arrows up at the camera.

"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".

Disease is also a risk, as members of tribal groups that have been contacted in the past have died of illnesses that they have no defence against, ranging from chicken pox to the common cold.

jeffbr

wwfairfield wrote:

Check out how freaked these mexicans are....

I'm pretty sure no Mexican people are living with the indigenous people of this tribe in Brazil.


The pictures are amazing, though. Hopefully they'll be left alone to keep doing what they're doing.

NYbenben

can you imagine what hey must think about a helicopter flying overhead? UNCONTACTED by modern civilization... HOLY CRAP!!

wwfairfield

more info on them crazy mexicans

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7427417.stm#cotton

wwfairfield

NYbenben wrote:

can you imagine what hey must think about a helicopter flying overhead? UNCONTACTED by modern civilization... HOLY CRAP!!

seriously
it is like when the dudes who mow my lawn see my ipod or my laptop

unsung

I doubt anyone will make contact with them unless they want to risk the chance of being eaten.

wwfairfield

unsung wrote:

I doubt anyone will make contact with them unless they want to risk the chance of being eaten.

just because they are mexican doesn't mean they eat people

i harken back to prince ahkeem when he is ask if that is "ultra-perm" in his hair


and might i remind you jeff dahmer ate people and he was white and american before he was sodomized to death with a broken mop handle

so there

ledvedderman

Why don't you quit calling them Mexicans?

Clarice

jeffbr wrote:

The pictures are amazing, though. Hopefully they'll be left alone to keep doing what they're doing.

Exactly what the director of Funai said: we dont know nothing about them and the idea is keeping dont know.

Actually the brazilian government knows the challenge is great to guarantee those indigenous stay safe. Specially after the midia talked a lot about this. Amazonia is a land covet and Funai calculated a close of 40 tribes uncontacted in all the region. 20 is already knowed but still uncontacted.

josevolution

wwfairfield wrote:

Check out how freaked these mexicans are....
can you imagine??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7426869.stm

hey genius look at the map of the world MEXICO is a bit farther up north from BRAZIL & PERU ,you hick ...

69charger

ledvedderman wrote:

Why don't you quit calling them Mexicans?

Don't listen to this guy. It's funny!

Commy

These people are probably more spiritually advanced than most of the people in the US.

josevolution

Commy wrote:

These people are probably more spiritually advanced than most of the people in the US.

agreed they are one with the living world

Clarice

http://www.imagensdobrasil.art.br/

It´s a link of the website of my friend Renato Soares, one photographer who has a great job with a lot of tribes in Amazonia (please, they arent crazy and no mexicans)..It´s very beatiful. He traveled with Orlando Vilas Boas, one incredible man who dedicated his life to make a serious study about this environment and the indigineous.

tybird

josevolution wrote:

agreed they are one with the living world

There is no such thing as the noble savage.

Commy

tybird wrote:

There is no such thing as the noble savage.

why do you consider these people to be "savage"? just curious...

josevolution

tybird wrote:

There is no such thing as the noble savage.

you are the savage you hick where ever you come from ...

jeffbr

I'm certain Tybird is not being derogatory. For a quick overview of the concept of noble savage try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage

BetterThanYou

i didn't read the whole thread, so i don't know if this has been said, but this made me chuckle: "Funai says it does not make contact with the tribes..."
yeah, except for multiple fly-by's.

DriftingByTheStorm

First Thought That Popped In My Head Upon Seeing These Images: Who was the fucking idiot who went on this shoot and forgot the high powered telephoto lens? Man the pictures really suck donkey. And yeah, i got that they were aiming highly sophisticated terrorist weapons at the helicopter.

Commy wrote:

why do you consider these people to be "savage"? just curious...

See JeffBr's comment.
He isn't being an ass,
he's making an intelligent (though, perhaps controversial) observation.

He's saying the assumption that there was some "golden age" of tribal harmony with self, eachother, and nature is largely an erroneous one.

Man has always had some form of adversarial or antagonistic relationships, within the tribe, and with other tribes, and with the larger forces of nature. Further, the notion that the primitive man was some how at peace or one with himself and in a state of relative bliss is an unproven and likely naive notion.

I think that is all he was really getting at.

Before reacting to words,
we should all try to understand the words as they are written.

That is something i struggle with in this place all the time.
Reactionary responses that fail to even account for the sentiment the original poster was actually expressing are rampant around this place. Read, research, then respond.