A friend of mine posted this on his blog and Fb and it's one of the most awesome things I've ever seen. They're trying to get the tribe protected so that the Jungle won't be bulldozed. And just to add to the awesomeness, Agent Scully is narrating.

http://andrewgunsberg.com/absolutely-mind-blowing-video-aerial-footage

I found a youtube link but Scully isn't narrating this one...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lWVVFHzuLE[/youtube]

Absolutely incredible.

Thanks Redial.

Nice video.

There is a similar village in America. It is called the Republican party HQs. Untouched by civilization for thousands of years.

Humans. Unadulterated.

Fascinating stuff! Thanks for sharing!

"The last free people on the planet."

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I'm not sure I can work out the ethics of the situation.

I honestly don't get why these people are supposed to live a superior life to me that's worth protecting.

it's not that it's superior, but it's their's and it has been their way of life for so long, what would happen to them if their forest was suddenly bulldozed, they'd either be herded like cattle into some kind of welfare protection (which in brazil would be pretty dodgy I'd imagine), taken into scientific protection/study. run and be dispersed and disorientated and possibly lose their family during the process or attack and get killed in "self defense". Their life is neither superior, nor inferior, it is simply their life and they should be allowed to live it in peace.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to live in such a place just surviving from day to day.

Ubjon wrote:Sometimes I think it would be nice to live in such a place just surviving from day to day.

Ever tried it?

Redial wrote:it's not that it's superior, but it's their's and it has been their way of life for so long, what would happen to them if their forest was suddenly bulldozed, they'd either be herded like cattle into some kind of welfare protection (which in brazil would be pretty dodgy I'd imagine), taken into scientific protection/study. run and be dispersed and disorientated and possibly lose their family during the process or attack and get killed in "self defense". Their life is neither superior, nor inferior, it is simply their life and they should be allowed to live it in peace.

That may no longer be possible as there are likely people that will now travel to these areas to "see" these people for themselves. I think it was a poor idea to release this video and these photos as the curious (read:idiots) will attempt to contact these people w/ dire results for both groups.

Interesting vid. Thanks.

And no, It's not Scully, it's John Hurt, who's infinitely cooler.

edit: why'd you put this in S&F? Surely this belongs in Anthropology & Archaeology?

Ubjon wrote:Sometimes I think it would be nice to live in such a place just surviving from day to day.

The mormons would still find you.

One reason to not try and change their lifestyles actively is something Brazil ran into lots of times earlier, when it tried to do that: the newly contacted tribes lacked immunity, and promptly most of them died from diseases that pretty much everyone outside of the tribe is a latent carrier of.

This is one reason Brazil has taken to protecting them instead of trying to make them into potential tax-payers.

Wiðercora wrote:

Ubjon wrote:Sometimes I think it would be nice to live in such a place just surviving from day to day.

The mormons would still find you.

Only if they look up and Mormons can't look up

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/91536

Although this might have been the first time they were photographed, they were known about for decades before. The article I just linked says at the end to expect more to come out about it, but that was a couple of years ago and there's been no more that I've seen, so I guess there wasn't more to it than that to come out.

I read about this in one of the daily newspapers. There was a still shot of a modern metal cooking pot on the campfire.

james1v wrote:I read about this in one of the daily newspapers. There was a still shot of a modern metal cooking pot on the campfire.

Possible archive footage?

Ubjon wrote:

james1v wrote:I read about this in one of the daily newspapers. There was a still shot of a modern metal cooking pot on the campfire.

Possible archive footage?

Dunno. It was sometime last week that i read about it. They (the journalists) speculated that either the tribe had contacts outside, or they had found the pot laying around on their expeditions.

I'll have to see the metal pot to believe it. The pictures that have been published don't even have that much resolution.

Some very isolated tribes do have limited contacts with contacted tribes, but at the remove from civilization we get, communicating with them by proxy of such a tribe is a pretty bad game of telephone.