Posts Tagged ‘tribes’

Lost Amazon Tribe = Hoax-tastic

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

A few weeks ago, I ran a post about a supposedly undiscovered Amazonian tribe that had been photographed from the air. Hey, its great that this guy cares so much about protecting these tribes and their ancestral lands that he would go to all this trouble to make huge segments of the media look foolish. [...]

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Brazil Discovers Uncontacted Indian Tribe In Amazon Jungle

Friday, May 30th, 2008

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 [...]

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Indiana Jones And The The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull - Indiana Jones

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

The Chachapoyan Fertility Idol was a solid gold statue, six inches tall, representing the Chachapoyan goddess of fertility. The idol was hidden by the tribe’s priests in a temple deep within the jungles of Peru. Braving the temple’s deadly traps to stare into the idol’s eyes became a rite of passage for young Chachapoyan warriors. [...]

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Quest For Fire

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

The film follows the Ulam tribe, which does not yet know how to make fire, and must continually feed their bonfire to keep warm. When another tribe attacks, the Ulams fire is extinguished, and three members of the tribe must venture out to find a flame and bring it back. Along the way these cavemen [...]

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Orang Pendek

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Forest tribes, local villagers, Dutch colonists, and Western scientists and travelers have seen the animal existing and documented for at least one hundred years. Majority among witnesses has given their opinion about Orang Pendeks nature as a ground-dwelling, bipedal primate and is covered with short grey to brown fur. It is also noted that the [...]

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Gov/bia Blackfoot Tribe In Montana?

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

The Siksika (which means Black Foot), are a division of the blackfoot tribe in Alberta, Canada. The three Nitsitapii Tribes are the Blackfoot in Canada or Blackfeet in U.S. (Siksika), the Kainai (Blood), and the Pikuni (Peigan). With the dollar at an all-time low against the Euro, theres never been a better time to explore [...]

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