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 [...]
Continue Reading...‘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 [...]
Continue Reading...Possibly in New Guinea and Micronesia as well. Members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe and their dwellings are seen during a flight over the Brazilian state of Acre along the border with Peru. One of Brazil’s last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the [...]
Continue Reading...The Brazilian government foundation, known as Funai, said the Indians were sighted in an Ethno-Environmental Protected Area along the Envira River in flights over remote Acre state. 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.
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