Peru releases Dramtic Footage of Uncontacted Indians

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The Peruvian government has released dramatic new footage showing a near-encounter with a group of uncontacted Indians along a riverbank in the Amazon rain forest. The video was taken by travelers on the Manu River in southeastern Peru in recent months, according to officials from Peru’s Ministry of the Environment, who released the images on Monday.

In the video, travelers appear to be playing a game of cat and mouse with the naked tribesmen, drifting close to shore only to flee in panic in their motorboat as the natives approach. Some of the Indians brandish bows and arrows, and at one moment, one of them prepares to launch an arrow at the boat. The travelers are heard debating among themselves whether to approach, whether to back off, and if they should leave gifts of food or clothing on the shore for the Indians to take.

The idea of Uncontacted tribes really intrigues me, I wish we could communicate with them without corrupting them. It would be interesting on what their social structure and take on a 'god' would be.

Anyways I hope you enjoy the footage. When the man points the bow at them, wow, I would be so scared at that point.

Amazing footage.

Any thoughts?

Pred...

you cant observe a thing without affecting a thing.

Let them be.

They aren't "an un-contacted tribe". Previous air photography of the first sighting of this tribe show one of the Indians holding a metal machete. They appear to be an offshoot of the Yanomami Indians of south Venezuela. I can't believe they're still trying to claim they're an un-contacted tribe lol.

Source - me, a former missionary kid that worked with the Yanomami, Jhoti, and Panade' indigenous tribes of the Amazonas region of Venezuela.

How in the heck can they claim those people are uncontacted?

Makes no sense. All they did was see some primitive tribes people on the river bank. They never spoke with them. Maybe those tribes people have had numerous run ins with poachers, adventurers, photographers, over the years.

Sounds like B.S. to me.

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How exactly is that "Dramatic Footage?"

All it shows is some people at a distance on a river bank. Wow.

How do they know they're uncontacted?

How do they know nobody ever traded with them or met them?

I don't get it..


But they should just leave them alone, let them live their own existence.

Ahhh! Happy naked people!
I'm always overjoyed when people are free to run around happy, uninhibited, and untainted by silly cultural taboos that make running around naked into something naughty, or gross.
It makes me happy to see these people shooting arrows at the camera people.

"go away! we know you will try to replace our gods with some stupid white guy with a beard, and turn our freedoms and ways into something dirty! pew pew pew, i shoot at you with arrow!"

"The idea of Uncontacted tribes really intrigues me, I wish we could communicate with them without corrupting them"


loool yea , communicate without corrupting them hehe . we civlized peeps are so evil with our wicked ways , taint everything pure market it and sell it as 99.9 percent pure lol








. It would be interesting on what their social structure and take on a 'god' would be"


god would be whatever forces they don't understand .

fire , wind , sun , eclipse etc..


like early humanity anything unknown is attributed to the supernatural .. and the one who can minipulate that force is considered the spirtual one

Although some great questions where posed in your thread, I really did enjoy the video. Thank you for posting it.

They should just leave them be. They have probably (in my opinion) had some form of contact with others but who really knows. Point is, they obviously want to be left alone and that should be respected.

I can not decide which smart alex remark to post, so I am posting both!

Remark #1
We can't leave this people alone! They must be contacted immediately!!

They have not paid taxes in years!!!

You can clearly see they are not all young people. Some are well into their late 20's and therefor they owe their fair share plus interest!

/sarcasm

Remark #2

Leave them alone! They are the 99%

Originally posted by MrWendal
I can not decide which smart alex remark to post, so I am posting both!

Remark #1
We can't leave this people alone! They must be contacted immediately!!

They have not paid taxes in years!!!

Gah what were we thinking?! **eye roll as that darn smiley isn't working**

Just yet some more people the 'governments' (or whoever, you know) can steal from, leave broke, rip off, invade....you see my point.

Originally posted by Diplomat
How exactly is that "Dramatic Footage?"

All it shows is some people at a distance on a river bank. Wow.

I thought it was interesting that the photographers were threatened by the tribesmen, but it wasn't all that dramatic.

This footage of supposedly "uncontacted" tribes is more dramatic because you can see their homes, and their gardens where they grow food like bananas etc.

Uncontacted Amazon Tribe: First ever aerial footage


As another poster said they've probably been contacted, but still, you can see from the footage that they are remote enough to where they probably don't get much contact.

I don't know how much traffic the river gets, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's where they made contact, somewhere like the river bank?

Originally posted by KJellybean
They should just leave them be. They have probably (in my opinion) had some form of contact with others but who really knows. Point is, they obviously want to be left alone and that should be respected.

Would you feel that way if you found out they were killing their own babies if they weren't healthy?

They contacted one tribe and found out that's what they were doing, and westerners started judging them for it.

The video is on youtube called "First Contact - Lost Tribe of The Amazon..." but I'm not going to post any link because they appear "Au Naturel"

the Spartans used to kill babies that weren't healthy too, they consume resources and if they are really sick they don't contribute much in return.

I still say let them be, even if they kill some of their babies. Actually they don't personally murder them, they drag the babies out in the jungle and let the jaguars eat them, but it's pretty much a death sentence with hungry jaguars around..

That was a wonderful video !!


I know some things Tribes do are horrific or wrong to us but who are we to impose our will and belief on others?
IMHO we , meaning outside humans , should just leave them be , let them live peacefully.
All we would do is cause sickness and problems where there weren't any to begin with.
Throughout history we have interfered and forced ourselves upon too many Foreign civilizations and it has ended badly.

I envy them , they're virtually untouched by us . They're not conditioned the way we are , they are free and they are most likely happy IMO.

Thank you for posting that video , it was a pleasure to see them but for their sake I hope we never see them again

Originally posted by yourboycal2
"The idea of Uncontacted tribes really intrigues me, I wish we could communicate with them without corrupting them"


loool yea , communicate without corrupting them hehe . we civlized peeps are so evil with our wicked ways , taint everything pure market it and sell it as 99.9 percent pure lol








. It would be interesting on what their social structure and take on a 'god' would be"


god would be whatever forces they don't understand .

fire , wind , sun , eclipse etc..


like early humanity anything unknown is attributed to the supernatural .. and the one who can minipulate that force is considered the spirtual one

Most of the Amazon indigenous tribes I knew were polytheistic. The interesting part was that in most of, if not all of various tribe's accounts of world history included a great flood and mankind being saved by animals/humans that floated on a hollow log to survive in order for mankind to escape extinction. They also have accounts of a time when the sun stood still, didn't set, or was extra intense and no one could go outside.

Keep in mind these were tribes that weren't contacted by the outside world until the last 2 decades or so. Their accounts of past events intrigue me, without knowledge of the Bible, they knew of a "Great Flood" in which all mankind died save for a few. They believed in "Great Spirits", there were good spirits, and there were bad spirits. They were invisible to the human eye, but these spirits could be hurt by man but not killed. In one account, a man cut off the arm of a bad spirit but the spirit picked his arm up and "put it back on". The bad spirits were like giants and would eat humans. Even though we had black jaguars, the animal they feared most were snakes no matter how small or harmless they could be. Full grown men would scream like little girls and run away when I would bring out my pet snake close to them.

There was usually a patriarch that would act as the unofficial chief or spokes person for the tribe. Sexual immorality was very rampant in the tribe I was with and it wasn't uncommon for a man to have 2 or more wives. In the event the man got a new wife, the other one who is probably older in age, would stay in the current house while the man and his new wife would build a new house and live in it. The man would still take care of the older wife, keeping her house up, feeding her, having children with her, etc. Even they knew what hazards 2 wives under one roof might pose. lol

Its my belief most of the various tribes in that region were apart of the same tribe at one time. Perhaps the remnants of the Mayan civilization. Some of the pottery I found looked distinctly Asian. The tribal people look like an African and Asian mix. The skin complexion was dark brown and the lips and nose looked African, but the eyes were slanted, the face was round and the hair was black and straight. I also think that this is evidence that the world continents weren't always apart.

Here's what a lot of the indigenous tribal people looked like:
Anyone else see what I'm saying?

Pay no attention the the rare indigenous albino on the middle right lol

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Thing is we don't know that is what they're doing. Do many tribes like this do that? Maybe, but I'm talking about the tribe the thread is about and it isn't mentioned that they leave their weak young as animal food so who am I to make a comment about something I personally have no idea is true or not? As for my comment, I'd say to leave anyone alone that stays away from our corrupt governments and lives in their own world so to speak. Who would want to be under the governments thumb (the way so many of us are unfortunately) if they can keep themselves out of all this b.s?

Originally posted by deadmessiah
There was usually a patriarch that would act as the unofficial chief or spokes person for the tribe. Sexual immorality was very rampant in the tribe I was with and it wasn't uncommon for a man to have 2 or more wives.

Wow you've had some interesting experiences! Thanks for sharing your insights.

Are you saying that having more than one wife is immoral? Abraham in the Bible had multiple wives and I thought he was supposed to set an example, because God said he liked Abraham

I worked in Africa for a time and my assistant there told me his father had 5 wives and 25 children, but my helper thought that was too many and he didn't want that many wives and children. Nothing seemed immoral about it to him, he just didn't want that many wives! I had no problem with it; if two or five women want to marry the same guy why should I care? As long as it's their free choice to do so, I don't care.

Its my belief most of the various tribes in that region were apart of the same tribe at one time. Perhaps the remnants of the Mayan civilization. Some of the pottery I found looked distinctly Asian. The tribal people look like an African and Asian mix.

The old theory was that the Americas were populated by people crossing the Bering land bridge like the dark blue and orange arrows here, but some more recent theories suggest that Asians could have actually traveled to South America over the Pacific Ocean as shown by the green arrows:

marukuwato.multiply.com...


I'm not seeing as much African as you are, though maybe a little bit. But the residents in this video in New Guinea look decidedly African and they are located very close to the left most part of the green arrows, so they could have traveled from New Guinea along with Asians or at separate times, and of course interbred after arrival:

Tribe meets white man for the first time 1/3

By the way they reacted the same way as the tribe in the OP video, with threatening gestures, so I guess that's a normal human response when you feel threatened.

We should get some better insights regarding human migration patterns as we continue to map DNA via the Genographic Project

The skin complexion was dark brown and the lips and nose looked African, but the eyes were slanted, the face was round and the hair was black and straight. I also think that this is evidence that the world continents weren't always apart.

It's a known fact the world's continents weren't always apart, but what you cite as evidence for that, is not evidence for that. The continents were together over a hundred million years ago and man's most distant ancestor we know of, Australopithicus afarensis, is represented by a 3.2 million year old fossil we refer to as "Lucy". So the timing isn't right, as this series of maps shows:

www.scarborough.k12.me.us...

Therefore, they must have traveled from Asia to the Americas somehow, and while the separation of the continents may have been a challenge for intercontinental travel, don't forget we can be pretty clever when we want to be, so the continents didn't really have to be together to facilitate human travel between them.

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I always thought that it was mankinds basic instinct to explore. I wonder, when I hear stories like this why someone from the tribe in question never went for a walk. They never wanted to know what was on the other side of the mountain or river or forest? Imagine if all people were like that. We would never have discovered any of the lands outside our original boarders. Its hard to imagine in this day and age of fast cars and planes and computers that there are still people on this planet who have never gotten out of the stone age.