[gniewkoit]

Amazing..reminds me of that movie back in the 80's ..."The Gods Must Be Crazy"


New photos obtained by Survival International show uncontacted Indians in never-seen-before detail. The Indians are living in Brazil, near the Peruvian border, and are featured in the ‘Jungles’ episode of BBC1’s ‘Human Planet’ (Thurs 3 Feb, 8pm, UK only).

The pictures were taken by Brazil’s Indian Affairs Department, which has authorized Survival to use them as part of its campaign to protect their territory. They reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens.

The tribe’s survival is in serious jeopardy as an influx of illegal loggers invades the Peru side of the border. Brazilian authorities believe the influx of loggers is pushing isolated Indians from Peru into Brazil, and the two groups are likely to come into conflict.

Astonishing new photos of uncontacted tribe

[22CreessGah]

Judging by the fact that they are looking up at the passing helicopter in the photos, I think they may be on to us.

[jaydicassdhy]

Didn't this come out years ago?

[AccusaJalsBub]

Aren't these the folks they discovered by airplane or something? Some anthropologist thought he saw something in an aerial photo, then went back to research? I think I saw a preview for the movie on demand.

[milfovoxapl]

Didn't this come out years ago?

Yeah those pics are old news. Still interesting but old news.

[DoroKickcrofe]

there are "uncontacted" tribes in India too, especially in some of the Andaman & Nicobar islands; the Indian state has agreed to let them be and has kept development away from them because they don't want it. In reality, they're not uncontacted so much as simply left alone to continue their lifestyle and not force modernity onto them. I hope Brazil/Peru will do the same with these folks if that is what they want.

[gniewkoit]

Could be recycled pics although heard various sources on the radio this morning reporting the story including NPR and Fox below...

Survival International created a stir in 2008, when it released similar images of the same tribal groups -- images that sparked widespread allegations that the pictures were a hoax. Peru’s President Garcia has publicly suggested uncontacted tribes have been 'invented' by 'environmentalists' opposed to oil exploration in the Amazon, while another spokesperson compared them to the Loch Ness monster, the group explains on its site.

Survival International strongly disputes those allegations, however. A spokeswoman for the group told FoxNews.com that the Brazilian government has an entire division dedicated to helping out uncontacted tribes.

"In fact, there are more than one hundred uncontacted tribes around the world," the group explains.

FoxNews.com - Astonishing Photos of One of Earth's Last Uncontacted Tribes

[gniewkoit]

there are "uncontacted" tribes in India too, especially in some of the Andaman & Nicobar islands; the Indian state has agreed to let them be and has kept development away from them because they don't want it. In reality, they're not uncontacted so much as simply left alone to continue their lifestyle and not force modernity onto them. I hope Brazil/Peru will do the same with these folks if that is what they want.

I think Peru is going to sabotage the group's "free will" and carpet bomb them with porno mags and Apple products .......

[DoroKickcrofe]

I think Peru is going to sabotage the group's "free will" and carpet bomb them with porno mags and Apple products .......

After what P B S : C o n q u i s t a d o r s - P i z a r r o

[Todilrdc]

In the 70's or 80's photos by John Nance came to light about the Tasaday people in the Philippines. Supposedly stone age people who were first contacted by outsiders in the early 70's. However, later other photos came out showing these people had visited other tribes that weren't in the "stone age". Also, a linguist had pointed out certain similarities between the Tasaday language and other groups suggesting greater contact. Nance truly believed what he reported but the evidence seems great that there was a hoax of some kind.

The Yanomamo played a little trick on Napoleon Chagnon when he was making family trees for everyone in the village. A year later when he went back he found that they weren't using the names on his charts. Everyone in the village made up names just to play a joke on him. He spent that year working on family trees of everyone in the village.

A photo from a helicopter can't be considered research by itself.