OMG! This is amazing!
Its so hard to believe in today's world, that there are people out there, that have not had contact with the "outside world". Freakin amazing!
Thanks for the post!
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i saw this on CNN this morning!! SO COOL!!

i find this story and the pictures amazing. seeing them in their war paint and trying to take down the plane with bows and arrows is fascinating. we have so much to learn from people who live this way and it breaks my heart to know that their lives are being disrupted because of what we are doing to the rain forest.

I saw this on the news earlier and found it both fascinating and sad.

Yeah, I bet the helicopter was pretty scary for them

Very interesting!

Yeah, wow, what must they be thinking!

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On one side, I think that it would be amazing to preserve their ancient customs for the anthropological value, but on the other, I also realize that they deserve to improve their lifestyle. In any way, it truly sucks that we are sacrifying their habitat and destroying the rainforest, all in one strike.
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I hate to be the one who is the NON-believer.

Point # 1 , Looking at the photos, it appears that one of the men is wearing sneakers (tennis shoes) while he is pointing his arrows toward the sky.

Point # 2, do people honestly believe that this tribe of uncontacted Amazon indians, had time to put war paint on and then confront the airplane? It is absurd to believe that.

Point # 3, there appears to be a black object in each photo, is it bigfoot? Is is head to toe war paint that was thrown together upon seeing the low flying air craft?

Something about this story and the photos makes me want to investigate further. I do believe that there are bands of indians living in the Amazon jungle or in jungles all over the world. However, society is curious by nature and guided by greed, I find it way to hard to believe that someone saw these indians and looked at the window, snapped a photo and said "cool".

hmmm

There are actually so many unexplored tribes of natives all over the Amazon that many - who have sporadically been contacted by reasearchers or missionaries, are still living the same way they did centuries ago.
However, it is true that more research needs to be done. We all remember the Tasadays of Mindanao.
Hopefully we will have more in-depth information soon.
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Really fascinating to see this. It's sad I think to really disrupt their way of life. They don't know any differently and probably manage decently to survive- until, as you stated Shi, we start destroying the rain forests that they have around them. Amazing story though- I don't think many of us stop and think of what still remains undiscovered and untainted around the world.

i appreciate your points threesecondfall but i will go on to add we don't know how long the plane/copter had been circling that spot. this could have been going on for some time. they could have circled and waited for a glimpse of the inhabitants who could have been hiding from this strange thing. then after all the time hearing the noise they could have had enough and decided to try to get rid of it. honestly we just don't know. true or not it is has sparked some amazing dialogue.

@ yowza, they're feisty!

This is so fascinating!!

I totally have to post pictures of the Shrunken Heads that I took in PR, the jíbaros really know their shizz
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