Isolated Tribe Spotted In Brazil … Democrats Race To Register Them To Vote
Maybe they have a room for Susan Sarandon …
BBCNews:
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.
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May 30th, 2008 at 9:25 amThese people are BARBARIC!
May 30th, 2008 at 9:57 amThats pretty weird to imagine that their are over 100 tribes in the world that have never been in contact with modern humans. look at the picture, they are aiming their bows at an airplane
May 30th, 2008 at 12:03 pmIs it just me, or do they look as confused as a cow on astroturf?
May 30th, 2008 at 1:11 pmThe “100 uncontacted tribes” is undoubtedly unadulterated bullshit. Y’all know as well as I do that sociologists, anthropologists, and envirotards are hauling their collectively useless asses down to South America at this very moment to find and exploit these fine folks. My point is, there is no way in hell that academics are cognizant of 100 pristinely-stone age groups of people that they haven’t bugged the ever-loving shit out of. It is impossible. Multi-culturalists and anthropologists would be all over these brown folks like white on rice.
May 30th, 2008 at 4:08 pmActually, it´s *very* unlikely those indians are really isolated. In Brazil there is a debate going on about the stablishment of new indian “preservation areas”, many of them on national borders. One of these will be in Brazil-Venezuela´s border, an area that is of paramount interest for those FARC terrorists. Imagine a terrorist heaven about the size of Connecticut…
You may not be aware, but the current Brazilian president, Lula, is the leader of a leftist party that has *formal* relationship with FARC, although nowadays this kind of support is largely kept undercover.
The brazilian indian-affairs office, who made those pictures, is a nest of all kind of echo-freaks and is *no* coincidence that they released them now.
June 1st, 2008 at 10:54 am