Posted on 09/10/2020 3:37:33 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Rieli Franciscato, 56, spent his career in the government’s indigenous affairs agency, Funai, working to set up reservations to protect uncontacted tribes.
Kanindé, an NGO that Franciscato helped found in the 1980s, said the indigenous group had no ability to distinguish between friend or foe from the outside world.
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The tribe may not be contacted, but their arrows do make contact.
These tribesmen sound xenophobic.
“the indigenous group had no ability to distinguish between friend or foe from the outside world.”
Xenophobes.
I can’t even begin to imagine how LUXURIOUS it would be to live somewhere with no contact with the outside world!
Though, I would miss a few FReepers. ;)
Just went on Priceline and did just that. I owe this man big time. He saved my life!
Kidding aside, he’s not the first to die under such conditions. Over the years there have been many such incidents. Several involving cannibal tribes.
“These tribesmen sound xenophobic.”
As I included the tribesmen in a story I wrote I read a couple of books and articles on them. Anybody who goes anywhere near them is flirting with death. They have zero points in common with the rest of us and anything you are wearing is something they don’t have. They will kill you for your pen knife. And it’s easier and safer for them to just kill you rather than bargain. They would not think twice about doing it. Nor would they feel badly afterwards.
DUMBgrunt is right BUT you made me laugh! :o)
I’m trying to remember. Where were those guys?
Sounds like Seattle’s CHODE ZONE
I imagine he and the white lion guy could swap stories.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3882490/posts
An old cliche, “You can always tell a leader by the arrows in his back”???
Ya I'm starting to know how they feel.
For some reason this story made me think of Teddy Roosevelt’s expedition up the Amazon more than 100 years ago. It may well have led to his death, but imagine an ex-President attempting (or even being allowed to attempt) such a thing today.
Am I the only one thinking “Cannibal Holocaust”? People from the outside screwed with the tribe, tribe later sees different group of outsiders, lunch ensues?
Not that Mead woman and all her sex talk?
Better take the kids out for a night with the monkeys...
the pioneers take the arrows
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