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A photo released by the Survival International organization on Jan. 31, 2012 of what they describe as being uncontacted members of a family from the Mashco-Piro tribe somewhere in the southeastern Peruvian jungle. According to Survival International, illegal logging displaces the indians from their homes.
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A photo released by the Survival International organization on Jan. 31 of what they describe as being members of the Mashco-Piro tribe near the Manu National Park in the southeastern Peruvian jungle. According to Survival International, illegal logging displaces the indians from their homes.
AP Reports:
LIMA, Peru — Peruvian authorities say they are struggling to keep outsiders away from a clan of previously isolated Amazon Indians who began appearing on the banks of a jungle river popular with environmental tourists last year.
The behavior of the small group of Mashco-Piro Indians has puzzled scientists, who say it may be related to the encroachment of loggers and by low-flying aircraft from nearby natural gas and oil exploration in the southeastern region of the country.
Clan members have been blamed for two bow-and-arrow attacks on people near the riverbank in Madre de Dios state where officials say the Indians were first seen last May.
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???? It's hard to believe that these undiscovered tribes of people can still possibly exist in todays modern world????
I believe that they are not as naive of the outside world as one might think . They just choose to not be a part of it .....Can you blame them ?? I wish they would just be left alone ....
Fascinating---now they will no longer be isolated any longer.
News Media, survivalists, curious travelers, The Geographic Program, and Magazine will open up their lives to the world.
Hopefully, they will continue to live as they do; not taking on the Crazy World we all live in---Lucky for them.
P.Valdes:
It doesn't look like it from the picture---who has spoken with them in Peru? No outside ways of communication?
I think I might like to join them....never been to a nudist colony before!! LOL!
those indians are hung like fish
Not surprising really, theres plenty of tribe's in the world that maintain minimal contact with civilization.
nice cans,er uh the indiginous,uh,harrumph.Well if they do like us should be genocide soon
I do not see any come help us signs or anything like that. Maybe they should just be left alone. They seem to be doing okay without CIVILIZATION. Why ruin it for them?
Look back in history at what happened to tribes and even nearly complete civilizations when they came into contact with people from the outside world. They are not naturally immune to many of the common illness that we are and in a short time can be wiped out by it even with good intentions. Protect these people, leave them be and let them continue their lives as they are. They I am sure work hard for a living but I doubt very much that they live under the stress the rest of us do.
homeless bums.Get a job.Lazy savages
It's called 'Occupy the Jungle' to keep out the 100% of us that have screwed up the rest of the planet.
i'm confused about the woman on the far right of the photo sitting down. Anyone else see something really strange?
Yes - are you talking about the way she has her leg up in her "dress"? Or something else I didn't notice other than the entire, overall encompassing 'strangeness' of the woman..
I wish we could leave them alone.
let them be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they should just be left alone, but we should protect them but we should not anger them they could hurt a lot of people if people do
LD-1365651,
I see a few confusing things. One of which is such well kept facial hair on the man...almost to current styles...and well trimmed bangs on these people who don't get out in society much. However if they are the real deal...hope they are left alone... They don't seem to be hiding though...
Mamsu - Good eye! I was so consumed with the fact that these people who have had no contact with the modern world seem to be posing for these pictures that I didn't take note of the straight across bangs. How does one do that with a machete? The facial hair too? Some of them even seem to have a layered look to their hair (not a very good one, but a layered look nonetheless). Guess we will have to wait until they find someone who can speak to them to figure out these mysteries. :(
I look at the same pictures and I don't see modern styling. That's probably all the facial hair that guy has; notice the lack of body hair? Plus, they do have blades, and you can cut hair with a sharp knife - in fact, bangs are probably the most likely style to result if you grab a hank of straight hair and lop it off like you're cutting grass - and the bangs don't look that even to me.
I have spent a number of years since the mid 1950s near and among tribes in Ecuador and Peru jungles. It is true that these people do not look like isolated Indios. Why?
They look healthy and well-fed.
The male has facial hair, almost unknown among natives in the Amazon basin.
They have hair cuts - just look at the variety in styles.
That aside, comments like "don't bother them," etc, are not going to change the situation. Time and again as "civilization" advances these semi-isolated tribes (and there are hundreds in the jungle) are absorbed or wiped out.
On the other hand, those that are absorbed may benefit from medical attention and better nourishment. There is a reason why these tribes are so small. Disease, starvation, and violence keep these tribes from growing. Many consist of less than 100 people, the "survivors." Don't fool yourselves into thinking that modern life is going to be worse than what they already have.
I think there should be a way to maintain them for the purpose of tourism and make them to love us and we also love them so that we all will see ourselves as one people.
look at the boys...they all seem to have had regular , even "styled" haircuts