Uncontacted Amazon tribe found

[HAcoreRD]

Their god has probably changed to an "airplane" now.

edit: Wait, that means that I could probably be their god if I played my cards right.

Where's that southpark episode?

http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/311/

?

[Jefe]

Assuming they have a religion. Remember, they are isolated and do not know the customs of the outside world. Religion may be an unknown concept to them, being ignorant of the world at large.

They don't need to be aware about the rest of the world to believe in something (they prolly, wild assumption, idolize the sun/moon or a rock), but yeah the Aztecs, Egyptians, etc. would liek to haev a word w/ u.

ANYWAIZ, they prolly got freaked out when they saw that giant colibri hovering above them ;o

[Darus Grey]

Personally I can't imagine they don't know what's going on outside in the rest of the world. Even if we don't make direct contact with them, we do make contact with many tribes, and those tribes likely make contact in some form with these tribes.

Well they probably have no idea how a helicopter works or what it really is...I imagine they're aware that it's a human flying machine, and are not worshiping it as a god.

[arus2001]

I was hoping by "Amazon tribe" it meant a bunch of hot Xena lookalikes running around in next to nothing. Alas.

[MisterBob]

Was actually a Cessna that flew over them, not a helicopter btw

[Mizango]

I was hoping by "Amazon tribe" it meant a bunch of hot Xena lookalikes running around in next to nothing. Alas.

You likey snu-snu?

[arus2001]

I was hoping by "Amazon tribe" it meant a bunch of hot Xena lookalikes running around in next to nothing. Alas.

You likey snu-snu?

I find the most erotic part of the woman to be the boobies?

[Anyway]

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/7261/2n80co9qj0.jpg

found it on digg

[Lordwafik]

LOL

Amazonian Guido tribe.

[Septimus]

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/7261/2n80co9qj0.jpg

found it on digg

The person who made that deserves an Oscar.

[Epical]

Holy fucking LOL that's perfect.

[Sythe]

Oh my sweet jesus that's fucking hilarious. You made my night. Thank you good sir.

[Howard Roark]

Arn't there like 70+ uncontacted tribes? Numbers from like 10yrs ago so might be massively out of date I suppose.

how does one document an 'uncontacted tribe'

dude in safari hat: hey, bro -- am I the first to speak to your bad uncontacted self?

guido native: yeah, but stop calling me uncontacted

[Darus Grey]

Pretty sure "Uncontacted" is a misnomer, and is used primarily to describe tribes who actively avoid(or attack) outsiders.

Lack of "civil" contact would be a more appropriate description.

[Khamsin]

Well, if they asked them, they wouldn't be uncontacted. So it probably just refers to tribes that they have seen but haven't talked to before. However, it may still be possible that someone they don't know about snuck in there and had a word with them, but if so, it's not readily apparent or has gone unnoticed in their observation of the tribes they have yet to contact.

[Howard Roark]

hehe just reminds me of Borat asking about pictures of undiscovered species

[Kuya]

Bump, but:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23 ... 09,00.html

THE man behind photos of warriors from an "undiscovered" Amazon tribe that were beamed around the world has admitted it was a publicity stunt aimed at raising awareness of logging.

Indigenous tribes expert, José Carlos Meirelles, said the tribe had been known of since 1910, and had been photographed to prove that they still existed in an area endangered by logging, The Guardian reported.

Mr Meirelles, who was working for Funai, the Brazilian Indian Protection Agency dedicated to finding remote tribes and protecting them, said he spent three years gatheiring "evidence" about the tribe, and then planned the publicity to protect them from losing their habitat.

Mr Meirelles, 61, said the "chance encounter" that produced the famous photographs was no accident.

"When we think we might have found an isolated tribe, a sertanista (tribe expert) like me walks in the forest for two or three years to gather evidence and we mark it in our (global positioning system)," he told Al Jazaera in his first interview since the images were released.

"We then map the territory the Indians occupy and we draw that protected territory without making contact with them. And finally we set up a small outpost where we can monitor their protection."

He said the Brazilian state of Acre offered him the use of an aircraft for three days.

"I had years of GPS co-ordinates," he said.

"A friend of mine sent me some Google Earth co-ordinates and maps that showed a strange clearing in the middle of the forest and asked me what that was.

"I saw the co-ordinates and realised that it was close to the area I had been exploring with my son – so I needed to fly over it."

Mr Meirelles said he he flew a 150km-radius route over the border region with Peru and saw huts that belonged to isolated tribes. But he did not see people.

"When the women hear the plane above, they run into the forest, thinking it's a big bird," he said.

"This is such a remote area, planes don't fly over it."

On the third day , Mr Meirelles spotted a large community.

"When I saw them painted red, I was satisfied, I was happy," he said.

"Because painted red means they are ready for war, which to me says they are happy and healthy defending their territory."

Survival International, the organisation that released the pictures along with Funai, conceded yesterday that Funai had known about the nomadic tribe for around two decades.

It defended the disturbance of the tribe saying the international media attention surrounging the images had forced Peru to re-examine its logging policy in the border area where the tribe lives.

PUNKED

[Lordwafik]

It's still a real tribe! I thought it was a complete hoax, that would have been shitty.

[Kaylia]

Called the hoax since the first time...I'm just surprised it was actually a tribe