New "Uncontacted" Tribe Found in Amazon

"Photographed during an aerial survey deep in the Amazon Basin, two large, newly built huts help confirm the existence of a previously unknown "uncontacted" tribe, Brazilian authorities announced last week...."

It makes me sad. I hope everyone lets them be and doesn't think they need our "help".



http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...orest/?source=link_fb20110705uncontactedtribe

 

I completely agree! Leave them alone and let them live as they have been...they've been doing things their way and need no interruption.

 

Some anthropologist or other will want to know where they are on the evolutionary scale.

 

Fascinating.

 

On several occasions I have flown over South America and the Amazon Jungles. It always brings me to tears because of it's magnitude and beauty. A few years ago I was on an empty plane flying out of Iquitos Peru. I went from window to window looking out at the green sea of jungle below me. We flew for two hours without a break in the forest. I wondered about how many people were below me looking up and wondering what we were. That jungle is the most sacred place I know of on this Earth. I know that Mountain Peoples in other parts of the world may be as remote but for me that jungle and it's mysterys is incredible. To those folks down there on that jungle floor I wish them the best. And please if there really is a just God keep the fucking missionaries out of there! They do more harm than the anthropologists!

 

I think this is a happy occasion, not a sad one.

 

I find it super interesting, but I agree with you guys as well. They are better off they way they are. I've always wondered what it would be like to be born and raised without all of this technology, and other bullshit of today. Life must be so much more simpler and easy going.

 

Easy going?


I dont think so

 

Ill bet their ayawaska brew is kick ass...

 

I read about this about a month ago.. there are numerous tribes counted for.. think its 9 that have never had contact with another human being.. they are completely left alone and they do a fly over rarely to check up on them and see if they still exist.. the reason they do not bother them is because of bacteria and disease we may give them accidently.. decreasing their chance of survival.. many times the planes are shot at with arrows or spears... makes you wonder what these people think it is.. and if they worship it later.. or fear for it and tell tales of its existence

 

They have children. They live in the jungle. They have figured it out. Good for them. We should just leave them alone. They look scared as it is having to look at a big flying machine. They don't know what that thing is. For that matter they don't know what a camera is or what 'aid' is. They wouldn't know what to do with packaged food, or contained fluids. They look skinny and naked which, unknown to them...practically begs for aid. But if you asked them I'm sure they would say they know what their doing. We shouldn't curse them with our modern technology.

 

I don't understand all this "leave um alone" sentiment. It's not their fault that by circumstance they have been totally secluded from society. Maybe it's me, but i just feel that as human beings they are entitled to the knowledge and benefits of their species. I think it's kind of fucked up that where just gunna seclude them in these jungles and act like it's THERE decision. For Christ sakes they have no idea that a decision even exists!

 

It's like walking by a homeless man who was born into poverty and assuming thats how he wanted to live..

 

I just hope they never find Bigfoot and the Sasquatch tribes .. But I did hear they may hide in the Himalayan mountains and join the Yetis..

 

I've spent a lot of time in the Amazon Basin over the years and have somewhat mixed feelings about what you say. For those people who are completely uncontacted I feel strongly that they should be left alone. Here's my logic.

They as a people have survived without us for 1000's of years. Think about that for a second. Without any of the crap we adorn our lives with they get by just fine. They punch no time clock, watch for no sales, pay no taxes, don't worry about whether their electronic toys are up to date. Their insurance policies aren't a concern. Their kids don't join gangs or have fashion issues.

If the whole western world’s infrastructure crashes, if our economies tank, if our stores fold up and the highways decay, these folks won't be bothered. They provide their own food and shelter. Clothing isn't a problem cause one nekkid butt is pretty much like another.

What exactly do we have that will truly improve the quality of their lives, an Ipod perhaps. Do they need to hear the nightly news that the Middle East is filled with rabid fundamentalists...and so is the west. Should we have them be concerned about the Nuclear power over Fossil fuel?

We can go in with the best of intention and within two generation we will have wiped out a society that has survived without us for millennium. In exchange we will offer them some Nikes to run around in and maybe some Stihl chainsaws to cut down the forest...they have no money to buy this stuff so Prozac will soon be in order too.

I have been part of Medical teams going in to offer treatment to people living in these areas BUT only people who have already had some outside contact. The first thing they get from us is exposure to diseases for which they have no natural immunity. They start dying, we cannot get enough medication in to treat them. They become fearful and flee deeper and take their newly contacted diseases to other people. Soon we could wipe them all out.

We cannot unlearn our modern ways. We can't live naked off the Earth and feed ourselves, protect our kids. We can never understand and appreciate the Earth as these folks do. We could expose them to our way of life...and then what? Leave them there to wonder what all they are missing. We sure as hell can't bring them to our countries. Try getting them a Visa and Passport! Try telling a kid who has never had to put on clothing about wintertime!

My regrets are that I cannot learn from them without exposing them to an experience that will destroy them. My God what they could teach us! Their medicines, their spiritual beliefs, their ability to read their world and thrive in it.

NO! Leave them alone. It gives me comfort to know they are there living in harmony with their environment. I envy them, I have nothing to offer them.

 

I think that we should bring them twinkies and mopeds and arrange for the cast of "Jersey Shore" to meet them, after which they could have their own tv reality show, "real head hunters of the amazon jungle"

 

You have as much to offer them as they do you. :2thumbsup:

 

Sounds wild

 

Until you are there and experience their world you cannot begin to understand the complexities of the cultural damage we would do with the best of intentions. You are young, aim your education to learn more about cultures that have nothing in common with ours. Within 100 years after the Spanish arrived in South America 90% of the Native people were dead! Unintentional Genicide through the spread of disease in part. Worse was the avariceof the Spanish who raped the people and their culture. Please do some basic reading about that regrettable period of time. Its shocking and shameful. If you are willing to read you will change your opinion about what we have to offer.

I adopted my two youngest sons from Peru. They were 11 and 14 when they got here. They were aware of western culture. They had seen some TV, read books and newspapers. They had not lived as a tribe rather had simply lived in a small jungle village. The oldest boy embraced the education the west has to offer. The youngest lives and interacts here like any other of his American peers except he misses the jungle deeply. He misses his freedom, misses the adventure, the wildness of his environment. He is caught now between worlds, He can never go back and be the same person he was. Neither can he resolve being in theis complex world of silly laws and restrictions.

It's a far more complex thing than it seems on the surface. If you are an adventurous soul plan to take yourself down there and experience another world. You will be a far richer person for the experience if you do.

Get your passport and shots, buy a snakebite kit and make out your will...then take a walk on the wild side. You'll be surprised.

 

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