World Uncontacted Indian tribe spotted in Brazil

[The Helper]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - One of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation said Thursday.

The Indians were sighted in an Ethno-Environmental Protected Area along the Envira River in flights over remote Acre state, said the Brazilian government foundation, known as Funai.

Funai said it photographed "strong and healthy" warriors, six huts and a large planted area. But it was not known to which tribe they belonged, the group said.

"Four distinct isolated peoples exist in this region, whom we have accompanied for 20 years," Funai expert Jose Carlos Meirelles Junior said in a statement.

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[konerboy]

Wow nice

please don't kill them and please don't give them alcohol or drugs they will die!

 

[The Helper]

Isn't it against the Prime Directive to fly a helicopter over people who have no concept of flight? Those tribesman are probably crapping a huge brick about now

 

[konerboy]

when i look at the picture one more time it looks like theire aiming with bows at the helicopter

 

[BANANAMAN]

Chopper Vs Bowmen....The epic showdown.

 

[The Helper]

Can someone do a Motivator for me? That picture then the bottom says

Where is your God now?

 

[Cilla]

Isn't it against the Prime Directive to fly a helicopter over people who have no concept of flight? Those tribesman are probably crapping a huge brick about now

Yeah true...
I have a bad feeling about that.

'We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,' said uncontacted tribes expert Jos

Great expert.

 

[Cornface]

Hahahaha

 

[Ninva]

Haha! I laughed out loud.


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Oh man, this is so great. I'm slightly spectacle of the validation of this article... But if we ever do study these people I'd love to get the data! I'm so excited! This discovery is awesome! I bet they thought of the helicopter as a demon, god, or some type of animal that they believed their greatest warriors could kill off. I wonder if there are sub tribes, which is very possible! Oh boy! Oh boy!

EDIT: I just read the full article. I'll have to check out what information they have about these "Indians" now.

 

[ScarletBlade]

Bet they are going to be scared shitless, media would probably be all over that place now...

 

[sqrage]

In 2 weeks they'll be playing PS3 and Xbox.

 

[IceWarrior98]

I love how ones pitch black and the other two are orange. It's probably some kind of ranking but it's still pretty sweet. Also, Bows vs Choppa = Epic!

This kind of makes you wonder how many more uncontacted human civilizations live out there.

 

[Uberplayer]

They shouldn't have done this .

 

[Miz]

They shouldn't have done this .

What and watch them live normally?
There people too...

We have all rights to fly airplanes, and helicopters above their heads

 

[IceWarrior98]

What and watch them live normally?
There people too...

We have all rights to fly airplanes, and helicopters above their heads

Yea well, until now we thought that these guys didn't exist and mistakenly took their land without knowing. For all we know they have air traffic control laws that we keep breaking but they can't get their arrows up high enough.

 

[n[u]ll]

I wonder if any of the other uncontacted tribes have invented anything that we haven't, that'd be interesting ..

It also makes me wonder if somehow there's an uncharted island somewhere, or maybe a civilization in the middle of nowhere that are more advanced than us. 99% sure that's not true, but crazy thought anyways..

 

[Seb!]

They should do studies on them, to see the effects of living in our society. Also, the reaction to an outside force an such.. Not many people throughout people have suddenly realized that there was a huge world around them that they new nothing about.

 

[ScarletBlade]

I lol'd at the "Air Traffic Control" It'll probably be just a story they will pass down to their children * BIG THING IN SKY ATTACKED US D: *

 

[BlargIAmDead]

"Uncontacted" doesn't mean quite the same thing as "undiscovered".

Anthropologists say almost all of these tribes know about western civilization and have sporadic contact with prospectors, rubber tappers and loggers, but choose to turn their backs on civilization, usually because they have been attacked.

And:

While "uncontacted" Indians often respond violently to contact — Meirelles caught an arrow in the face from some of the same Indians in 2004 — the greater threat is to the Indians.

And of course:

Survival International estimates about 100 tribes worldwide have chosen to avoid contact, but said the only truly uncontacted tribe is the Sentinelese, who live on North Sentinel island off the coast of India and shoot arrows at anyone who comes near.

It's not that they're just simple cavemen, and our metal birds and thunder sticks frighten and confuse them. They know exactly who we are and what our civilization is going to do to them -- after a few hundred years of plagues, warfare and pollution, I guess the word spread -- and they will try to kill anybody who trespasses on their property.

(+Rep for the first person to identify the "simple caveman" reference.)

 

[Ninva]

Geico caveman commercial?