My world just got bigger
Image: Gleison Miranda, Funai
BBC:
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".
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4 Comments:
I've got to say...why couldnt they just leave them alone? You know those people are right now in fear of the Apocalypse thanks to the ominous flying machine that hovered over them.
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Vera, at 11:59 AM
Yeah, it's a tough call. Obviously, you want to minimize contact between the "modern" world and the tribes as much as possible.
On the other hand, that contact is pretty much inevitable. Can it be managed so that inadvertent exposure to a virus doesn't wipe out an entire tribe? It's a tough call. It's also hard to predict exactly what effect on their mythology seeing a few flying machines is going to have.
By
Barry, at 1:43 PM
Cue the cargo cult.
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Locomotive Breath, at 4:30 PM
I think people feel guilty over how we hosed the:
-Indians
-Aborigines
-Other tribes
over the past coupla hundred years.
It would show we've "learned something" by taking a more cautious approach with these guys. But something tells me that ain't gonna happen.
By
Tony, at 6:10 PM
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