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Funai said it photographed “strong and healthy” warriors, six huts and a large planted area. But it was not known to which tribe they belonged, the group said. “Four distinct isolated peoples exist in this region, whom we have accompanied for 20 years,” Funai expert Jose Carlos Meirelles Junior said in a statement. Funai does [...]

‘We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,’ said uncontacted tribes expert Jose Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior. Meirelles works for FUNAI, the Brazilian government’s Indian affairs department. Logging is driving uncontacted tribes over the border and could lead to conflict with the estimated five hundred [...]