Uncontacted peoples tends to be an interesting topic and this one has a bit of a twist as to why they are being contacted. Read the bonus article for a tragic story and hot hot DIVERSITY talk from a fat ugly white woman who fetishizes brown people.
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bongs said:The biggest expedition in 20 years to reach uncontacted tribes living in the Amazon rainforest is underway in Brazil - to prevent a bloody war breaking out between two of them, the country’s indigenous affairs agency, Funai, said today.
The government body said they hoped to make contact for the first time with members of the Korubo tribe, who live in complete isolation in the remote Javari valley indigenous reservation, in the far west of Brazil.
The Korubo are also known as the ‘clubber Indians’ because of the shoulder-height wooden clubs they use for killing their enemies by breaking open their skulls.
Authorities fear that a history of tensions between the Korubo and another tribe living in the region, the Matis, who already have contact with the outside world, could flare up again unless they intervene, a tribal war which could have disastrous consequences in the densely-forested region.
The Matis, known as the ‘cat people’ because of the ‘whiskers’ they attach to their faces, are notoriously violent but instead of clubs use bows and arrows or long blowguns with poisoned-tipped darts to kill their enemies.
Their rivalry with the Korubo began in 1920, when during a raid the Matis captured two Korubo girls and took them back to their village, where they had families and became part of the tribe.
As recently as 2014 the Korubo attacks one of the Matis villages, killing three elders.
In 2015, the Korubo split after an internal disagreement and a group of them separated from the tribe, moving to another part of the forest closer to the Matis, and they never had contact with each other again.
Among the breakaway tribe was a relative of one of the girls who had been abducted but Matis nearly a century ago, and they were able to reestablish contact and make alliances with the Matis cat people.
At the time, Funai intervened to monitor the unconnected group as they interacted with the Matis, fearing they could be wiped out by common viruses to which they had not developed immunity, unlike the Matis.
The Matis were first contacted in 1975, and have now developed immunity after Western diseases killed a third of their population.
Anthropologists now fear that, as well as the prospect of both tribes launching deadly attacks on each other, the potential of contact between the Matis and the other, as yet still isolated Korubo tribe, as well as the desire expressed by the breakaway tribe to reestablish contact with their relatives, could lead to a breakout of disease which could bring the ancient tribe to extinction.
Aerial footage taken by a Funai plane last month shows that the most isolated Korubo group has now come without 12 miles of the Matis, Bruno Pereira, who is leading the new expedition, explained.
He said: “This proximity to the Korubos, which are almost within the territory of the Matis, is a catastrophic scenario.
“In July last year there was a clash between the tribes, when the Matis stole the hammocks of the Korubos. They tried to (en)circle them but didn’t succeed.
“But if it escalates to another confrontation, the Matis will respond in their traditional way, which is violent.”
A team of 25 people, supported by the Federal Police and Brazilian army, are now on their making their way through the jungle to try to contact the estimated 30 to 40 members of the Korubo tribe at a cost of over £160,000.
They will use four boats as well as helicopters to reach the tribe in the most remote and dense forest of Brazil - the Javari territory covers an area of 32,000 square miles. Six Korumbo Indians from the breakaway tribe who have already made contact with authorities will travel with them, Funai said.
Mr Pereira said they hope to negotiate a dialogue between the two Korubo tribes, with the breakaway group helping the isolated group understand the Matis and thereby pacify the volatile situation.
He said: “The best case scenario would be an encounter between the isolated Korubo and their relatives where they are able to talk with their tribal relatives and decide to stay in the region.
“The worst case would be a fight breaking out with the Matis resulting in deaths.”
He added: “We have to think philosophically how to make this public policy work ethically.
“Today we the State have a responsibility to guarantee the physical and cultural protection of both the Korubo and the Matis. The risk is to delegate it to fate, which has resulted in conflict and deaths.”
Brazil’s Amazon is home to more uncontacted tribes than anywhere in the world, with at least 100 isolated groups in the rainforest.
The Javari Valley indigenous reserve, where the Korubo and Matis live, is home to seven unconnected tribes, one of the largest concentrations of isolated peoples in the country.
Since 1987, Funai has had a department dedicated to uncontacted Indians, whose policy is to make contact only in cases where their immediate survival is at risk.
As a result very little is known about these peoples, who have been known to shoot arrows at outsiders and airplanes, or they simply avoid contact by hiding deep in the forest.
Some are nomadic hunter gatherers constantly on the move, able to build a home within hours and abandon it days later, while others live in communal houses in forest clearings where they plant crops, hunt and fish.
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Amazon 'Man of the Hole': Inside home of last remaining tribesman dubbed the "loneliest man in the world"
Incredible photos reveal inside the home of an Amazon tribesman dubbed the "loneliest man in the world".
Known as the 'Man of the Hole', he is the last known survivor of an indigenous tribe who were murdered by farmers 22 years ago.
He is believed to have spent every year since having no contact to the outside world, surviving on pigs, birds, monkeys and plants of the jungle in Rondonia, Brazil.
Believed to be between 55 and 60 years old, very little is known about the lonesome figure who is classed as 'uncontacted' - meaning he's never spoken to anyone from mainstream civilization.
They claim the tribesman is often found digging holes to trap animals and to hide in- giving him his nickname, 'the indigenous man in the hole' - with one
He also makes all his own tools, including a wooden spear that he uses for hunting, seen in a picture below.
Though his name, tribe and language remain a mystery, it's understood the man has been living alone for at least 22 years, after the other five remaining members of his tribe were purged by farmers in a 'genocidal attack', in 1996.
While the authorities have no interaction with the man, they regularly carry out subtle checks to ensure he is still alive.
Much of his time is dedicated to hunting meat and he also has a small plantation where he grows papaya and corn on his piece of land measuring around 8,070 hectares.
Footage was released earlier this month as proof the man still exists in a bid to protect his right to the local land - the second time ever he has been caught on film.
He was seen wearing just a loin cloth while hacking at a tree with a homemade tool in the Tanaru indigenous territory.
Survival International advocacy director, Fiona Watson, believes the lone wanderer is a symbol for the importance of human diversity - a symbol that must be protected.
Fiona said: "Piecing together information from neighbouring tribes, we believe he is the sole survivor of a wave of genocidal attacks.
"We believe most of his family were murdered by land-grabbers and ranchers who poured into part of the Amazon along a new highway thirst for land and profit, in the 1980s.
"We don't know his name, the name of his tribe, what language he speaks - and in a way we don't need to.
"What's important is to respect his evident desire to be left alone, not be contacted and to protect his territory so he can live the rest of his life in peace.
"We know he hunts with bows and arrows and also digs 1.5-2m deep holes with wooden staves in the bottom to trap animals.
"Some politicians in the Amazon accuse FUNAI [The Brazillian Indigenous Affairs Department] of inventing uncontacted tribes in order to increase its budget and because they want to take over the land.
"[The footage is] important because his indigenous land rights can be recognised and territories protected."
Despite researchers monitoring him since his first discovery in 1996 the man has only been captured on film once before now.
He was first filmed as part of a Brazilian documentary called Corumbiara, shot in 1998.
Fiona added: "I think this man is a symbol of resilience, resistance and survival - I also think it's a wake-up call to the wider world.
"We are about to see yet another tribe become extinct and it's absolutely heart-wrenching.
"They [indigenous people] are not lost in a time-warp, they are contemporary peoples and represent a huge and vital part of human diversity.
"They should be valued and respected for their tremendous knowledge and unique ways of life.
"What does it say about our humanity if we do not act to save them?"
Amazon 'Man of the Hole': Inside home of last remaining tribesman dubbed the "loneliest man in the world"
Incredible photos reveal inside the home of an Amazon tribesman dubbed the "loneliest man in the world".
Known as the 'Man of the Hole', he is the last known survivor of an indigenous tribe who were murdered by farmers 22 years ago.
He is believed to have spent every year since having no contact to the outside world, surviving on pigs, birds, monkeys and plants of the jungle in Rondonia, Brazil.
Believed to be between 55 and 60 years old, very little is known about the lonesome figure who is classed as 'uncontacted' - meaning he's never spoken to anyone from mainstream civilization.
They claim the tribesman is often found digging holes to trap animals and to hide in- giving him his nickname, 'the indigenous man in the hole' - with one
He also makes all his own tools, including a wooden spear that he uses for hunting, seen in a picture below.
Though his name, tribe and language remain a mystery, it's understood the man has been living alone for at least 22 years, after the other five remaining members of his tribe were purged by farmers in a 'genocidal attack', in 1996.
While the authorities have no interaction with the man, they regularly carry out subtle checks to ensure he is still alive.
Much of his time is dedicated to hunting meat and he also has a small plantation where he grows papaya and corn on his piece of land measuring around 8,070 hectares.
Footage was released earlier this month as proof the man still exists in a bid to protect his right to the local land - the second time ever he has been caught on film.
He was seen wearing just a loin cloth while hacking at a tree with a homemade tool in the Tanaru indigenous territory.
Survival International advocacy director, Fiona Watson, believes the lone wanderer is a symbol for the importance of human diversity - a symbol that must be protected.
Fiona said: "Piecing together information from neighbouring tribes, we believe he is the sole survivor of a wave of genocidal attacks.
"We believe most of his family were murdered by land-grabbers and ranchers who poured into part of the Amazon along a new highway thirst for land and profit, in the 1980s.
"We don't know his name, the name of his tribe, what language he speaks - and in a way we don't need to.
"What's important is to respect his evident desire to be left alone, not be contacted and to protect his territory so he can live the rest of his life in peace.
"We know he hunts with bows and arrows and also digs 1.5-2m deep holes with wooden staves in the bottom to trap animals.
"Some politicians in the Amazon accuse FUNAI [The Brazillian Indigenous Affairs Department] of inventing uncontacted tribes in order to increase its budget and because they want to take over the land.
"[The footage is] important because his indigenous land rights can be recognised and territories protected."
Despite researchers monitoring him since his first discovery in 1996 the man has only been captured on film once before now.
He was first filmed as part of a Brazilian documentary called Corumbiara, shot in 1998.
Fiona added: "I think this man is a symbol of resilience, resistance and survival - I also think it's a wake-up call to the wider world.
"We are about to see yet another tribe become extinct and it's absolutely heart-wrenching.
"They [indigenous people] are not lost in a time-warp, they are contemporary peoples and represent a huge and vital part of human diversity.
"They should be valued and respected for their tremendous knowledge and unique ways of life.
"What does it say about our humanity if we do not act to save them?"
Mattis actually doesn't like the nickname Mad Dog. According to him it was made up by the media. He prefers his callsign "Chaos" which he chose after finding out it is a tongue and cheek acronym meaning Colonel Has An Outstanding Solution.
