Incredible pictures of one of Earth's last uncontacted tribes firing bows and arrows

Daily Mail ^ | 5/29/08 | Michael Hanlon

[allmendream]

I am not against either urban living or modernity. I am a Scientist and I live near L.A.. What I am against is the idea that these people are miserable without us and need us to teach them how to live, or that their life is somehow worse than what they could expect as “el Indio” in the slums of any Hispanic metropolis.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Howard Dean was in the helicopter waving voter registration forms at them.

[Mmmike]

It’s the secular elite subtly expressing their anti-Christian bias.

[Roscoe Karns]

[untenured]

What I am against is the idea that these people are miserable without us and need us to teach them how to live, or that their life is somehow worse than what they could expect as “el Indio” in the slums of any Hispanic metropolis.

What I am against any assumption that they are not capable of thinking it through for themselves. They might like (as some Brazilian Indians do) to stay, and they might like to leave. I would reject any argument (which I'm not sure you're making) that we should avoid contact for their own good. There is much bad in the slums of Lima, but there is much bad where they are too.

Modernity is no guarantee of anything, but it gives you possibilities the jungle doesn't, and the jungle at least is there as a fallback. Leaving them as untouched zoo animals, it seems to me, shows them no moral respect.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Well, the headline DID say, “Incredible Pictures,” didn’t it?

[Towed_Jumper]

“Just for fun, they should have thrown down a couple of tasers and filmed the ensuing hilarity.”

Or, the guys in the plane could through out a empty Coke bottle and see what happens (ala “The Gods Must Be Crazy”)

[Towed_Jumper]

“Just for fun, they should have thrown down a couple of tasers and filmed the ensuing hilarity.”

Or, the guys in the plane could through out a empty Coke bottle and see what happens (ala “The Gods Must Be Crazy”)

[Yardstick]

You'd start with the Coke bottle. That would be episode 1. Then you'd introduce them to telephones, television, etc. You'd figure out some way to film it, maybe have hidden cameras or something. Eventually you'd take a couple of them to a big city. Man that would make for a great reality series. It would be wickedly immoral to do something like that, but it would be fascinating television and everyone would watch, even those who denounced it.

[allmendream]

I agree that they shouldn't be deliberately kept in the Jungle as some sort of exhibit of feral humanity. If they have been out of contact this long it is probably intentional. I am sure they know that they are surrounded by other people, I am not sure they want them to know where they are.

[Erasmus]

And the girls have cute little “Sunday” through “Saturday” embroideries on their loincloths.

[Titan Magroyne]

bfl

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[TigersEye]

Interesting article. They could be photographed without flying so low if they used bigger zoom lenses.

[TigersEye]

It’s not that hard to figure out. Even a caveman could grok that. ;^)

[pandoraou812]

Yes it is interesting. I will show Sassy in the am. Want to bet she wants to send Nick there?

[driftless2]

"tribes"

From documentaries I've seen and articles I've read Amazonian Indians are as violent and power-hungry as the supposedly evil, white invaders trying to take their lands. That is the simple truth, there are no perfect humans anywhere on the planet. But there are people, like these Indians, living in primitive circumstances. The way of the world means transporting the primitive to a civilized level. Like the Romans did to my uncivilized ancestors 2000 years ago.

[Arrowhead1952]

Wow!! That is something neat. Thanks for the ping.

[brytlea]

LOL

[brytlea]

LOL!