Uncontacted Indian tribe found in Brazil's Amazon »
Posted by: Aidenag 1 year, 3 months agoAn Indian tribe that has had no formal contact with Western civilization has been located in a remote Amazon region, federal authorities said Friday. The Metyktire tribe, with about 87 members, was found last week in an area that is difficult to reach because of thick jungle and a lack of nearby rivers.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 3 months ago
Brazil has laws to protect such peoples from intrusion by missionaries and other "educators," as well as from economic exploitation. Other people who were first "contacted" in the past 50 years, such as the Kreen-Akrore, have benefited from the protections established by Orlando Vilas Boas and his brothers.
These are extremely primative people, and their existence beyond the fringe of civilization is very fragile. No government has done more than Brazil to ensure the survival of such indigenous tribes. In fact, very little from the outside world will be allowed to reach them, and only the most critical medical care will be offered.
You might be interested in reading "The Tribe That Hides From Man," by Adrian Cowell. It deals with the last such contact, nearly forty years ago.
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Gebroida1 year, 3 months ago
What now? put them in reservations or slaughter them to death?
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lvrofwolves1 year, 3 months ago
I like it that there are undiscovered places and people, I like that there are different cultures. I do not think it's right for anyone to go in and try and change things, even if it seems for the good of them. Like a true story movie called 'End Of The Spear'-the Waodani in the eastern rainforest of Ecuador have lived their way of life for 1,000s of years. Missionaries come in, the tribe kills a few of them, and the missionaries Son ends up forgiving the tribe for killing his Father. ok forgiveness is nice, but..they shouldn't have been there in the first place trying to change people. We all aren't living in America, and shouldn't expect people to be either. If we are all shrink wrapped in the same package, the world would seem so small...who is anyone to say 1 culture is correct and another isn't? Like those people were lost-yahoooo we've been discovered!!! I just don't think it's right.
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lvrofwolves1 year, 3 months ago
My very dear friend who is a devout Christian, was telling me about this movie 'End Of The Spear' and said to me, "isn't it so wonderful that these missionaries went in and discovered this tribe and risked their lives to teach these savage people about God? Then they end up getting killed, and the Son goes years later and forgives them for killing his father?, what love and forgiveness the Son showed"
All I could say to him was, didn't God make those people too?
I just don't understand why some people think it's ok to go somewhere and try and change others. Plenty of work for missionaries to do right where they live. Really they are selfishly enriching their own lives by thinking they are bringing others to God, as they destroy other cultures that ironically, God (to them) also made.
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wildman65571 year, 3 months ago
Very few if any Tribes have been destroyed by missionaries. They are normally destroyed by the destruction of the forest and by gold miners etc. In other words, economic forces.
If you look who is behind most of the groups opposed to the missionaries, you generally find gold mining or oil extraction money or cattle ranching. The missionaries are easy targets but are not the destroying agents.
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puffin1 year, 3 months ago
http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/s_ot/...
- Their land and health is being destroyed by "economic forces" and their culture is being destroyed by missionaries. -
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wildman65571 year, 3 months ago
When the land and wealth and health are preserved, the culture is preserved. In Arizona (where I live), there are Hopi Indians who are culturally much as they were before the White Man come. Why? Because they have their land in pretty much a complete state. This is in spite of much missionary work.
In the East Coast of the US there is very little Indian culture left. Why? Because they had their land taken from them and were uprooted and sent elsewhere.
It is their land that needs protection from exploiters. They do not need to be protected from ideas and other cultures no more than anyone else like they are in a zoo.
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Aidenag1 year, 3 months ago
Many tribes have been destroyed by missionaries. Its been this way since the Spanish conquest of South America. Before they came, the people didnt even know of Christianity. Now its the worlds most populous Christian continent. And when they converted their tribe structures,beliefs,laws, all changed. Thus destroying the tribes and assimilating them into modern culture.
Could argue all day on if its a good or bad thing, but fact of the matter is, Missionaries destroyed the old way of life for them. Simple Cause and effect.
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jdhatl1 year, 3 months ago
They did a pretty good job on the Maya, with a mass burning of sacred texts, which, if they had saved them, may have prevented this madness of people who think the world is going to end in 2012 based on incompletely understood mayan writings. And missionaries have done plenty of harm, anyone who claims otherwise is either a mindless christian or a reactionary anti-liberal, either way contemptuous of historical truth. The way the europeans treated native american populations, often under the guise of christianity, is shameful, genocidal, and in no way defensible, is one of the darkest chapters in human history, and everything wrong with the world right now is just the after effects of this poorly conceived christianity superiority complex
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fudgie1 year, 3 months ago
From the bottom of my heart, I hope these people are treated respectfully.
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LibsRsick1 year, 3 months ago
Can you imagine if one day they decide to go out and explore, only to walk into a glass wall and realize they are actually in an exhibit. It is a sad truth, people who don't adapt risk there own destruction. They probably had a perfect balance with the land and animals around them to survive for this long.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 3 months ago
The lives of primitive peoples are a constant struggle--far from a "perfect balance." It is only myth which holds that there ever was a "Native American Culture"--American peoples, like those on other continents, had to create hundreds of cultures in response to the various environments in which they lived, and the resources at hand. It is also a myth that they ever lived in perfect harmony with nature--Native American cultures have been among the mmost wasteful and destructive to be found anywhere.
People are pretty much the same throughout the world--none is inherently superior to the the others, and no culture has yet evolved which can sustain such an illusion.
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truthiness1 year, 3 months ago
Miriam Ross, a campaigner with the indigenous rights group Survival International, estimates there are more than 100 uncontacted tribes across the world.
"This proves that often we just don't know whether these people are there or not," Ross said by telephone from London.
..really, we dont know how many people we havent contacted? thats brilliant. she should get a nobel prize for that realization...do they have Nobel Prizes for stating the incredibly obvious?
or do they just give you a job at some org. helping people who are doing just fine without you, and will probably be handicapped by the dependency created through your "assistance".
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 3 months ago
The article calls it an "estimate," but since no data is (or can be) available on those yet uncontacted, you could more accurately call it a "guess."
The only thing certain is that the land area in which such uncontacted peoples COULD exist is constantly shrinking.
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tkyrchncs1 year, 3 months ago
The fact is that in encounters between more technologically advanced cultures and less advanced ones, the more advanced one always dominates. And the smaller the less advanced group is, and the lower its technological level, the quicker it vanishes. Romanticize it all you like, there are not many on this globe who would voluntarily live in the stone age, even among those currently being born in it. It would be good to make as complete a record of these people as possible right now because they won't last long.
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Aidenag1 year, 3 months ago
Brazil still uses the term "Ãndios"(Indians) when referring to Indigenous peoples of Brazil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples...
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