Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil

Leave the natives to their ways and religions. If they wish to live simply and honor their God/ gods whatever, Then as Humans they have that right. Forget us teaching them, lets see if we can not destroy their culture and actually learn from them!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alright, TyMarshal. I just don't see why the world needs an ancient culture to exist. What I'm afraid of is when these hunter-gatherers send out scouts and discover us in 50 years when we are even less like them. I don't want them to die of smallpox-type diseases like the Native Americans did. I think we should introduce ourselves gradually and carefully so that culture clash is minimal.

tymarshal, that's very poetic but in fact doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I say we contact them and give them a choice, before we alienate them further from our way of life.

Got to this one late but did anyone notice they are firing at the chopper. I didnt see any S.O.S or signal flares. Hey send Jes Jackson as our diplomat (sorry that was mean)

its so sad how we are destroying out earth so fast...its tribes like these that can teach us how to leave sustainable... we must protect their lands...

since when do white people care about indigenous people...oh yah they dont..

Step one:discover "lost" tribe.Step two:Tell the world.Step three:Teach them how to burn their forest into charcoal.What a shame.

leave the tribespeople ALONE.... LEAVE THEM ALONE!!

so that's where hussein's weapons of mass destruction were hiding all along!

I like the way we want them to preserve their short-lived, violent, and dangerous way of life without asking them.

Ha ha, the gods must be crazy... I hope they didn't throw a coke bottle down from the plane.

the gods must be crazy 4?

I don't want to see this. Leave these people alone with their way of life! They're probably shitting themselves in that picture.

i love indigenous cultures and languages. i wish there was a way to know more about them without intruding upon their way of life.

part of what makes this sort of thing so fascinating is simply that they seem in many ways so much better off from our perspective.

Or better yet God will speak to some whack job and he will travel to the Amazon to spread the gospel and in the process give them some type of disease and wipe them out!

Next some guy will be on a reality show ''Living with the Lost Tribe'' And totally screw up their way of life in order to get ratings or fulfill his own personal agenda!

I used to look at a lot of technology we have today and think "wow you wouldn't even have to go back 20 years to make a person from then poo themselves"
Well I guess we can do that without an expensive government timemachine bill!

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure"
(Agent Smith - The Matrix - 1999)

Leave them alone modern screwed up society!!!

This is indeed looking through the hour glass of time to a world closer to prehistory than it is to modern society.
It boggles my mind how these tribes manage to stay so isolated to the evolving world outside of this rain forrest for so many generations. I mean thier still shooting bows and arrows! wow
To think i freak out just for misplacing my phone. These guys never even heard of one, much less ever needed one.

Lets hope they survive the rest of the world.....

Ah! don't ruin the ending of lost!

this is very interesting, if you could only imagine whats going through their minds.

I was just at the MountainFilm Festival in Telluride, CO this past weekend and saw a film called "The Last Nomads" about an anthropologist/linguist's search for the last hunter gatherers in Malaysia. Pretty intense stuff. Logging has forced just about everyone out of the forest now. He didn't find any hunter gatherers left. So sad.

We have nothing for them.

Fascinating. It's amazing to get this small glimpse into 21st Century lives completely separated from the age of the internet. Though I would love to learn more about them, I agree with responses above, and respect their right to be left alone.

And they are more than likely isolated because that is how they wish to remain. However, I guess the voyeur in some just can't allow them to leave people in peace.

Who said their lifestyle needs improvement?

That's pretty crazy. I wonder what it would be like to live in a tribe that's not exposed to the world at large around you... or are we that tribe???

I hope they dont find oil in their land! They will be wiped out immediatly!

Somebody should introduce them to a little Star Wars in HD... A little culture shock to an extreme, ah!

they say we could not get better pictures of them, but with satellites, shouldn't we be able to observe these people more closely without direct contact?

Boy are we in for a surprise when we find out it was just the set of Mel Gibson's latest flick Apocalypto II

I have an idea; contact them and GIVE THEM A CHOICE. Just because their life is more simple doesn't mean it's better. Maybe some of them want to live longer than a few decades?

Leave them alone! They may just be the best hope for the human race once Bush & buddies blow the rest of us up.

This is crazy...but yes, leave them alone

they want the crystal skull back..

Leave 'em alone, protect their land! It's not like they don't know we're out here, if they wanted to kick it with us, they'd come out. I have a sneaking suspicion they're smarter than that, and until this world can learn to accept differences and embrace them instead of trying to homogenize every damn thing and person, they'll be happier where they are.

Indigenous peoples of the world deserve to be treated SOOO much better than they are, Stephen's right on in my opinion. That is how you live sustainably.

Sadly I have a sneaking feeling we've hogged up all our resources and we're greedy and screwed up enough to just keep taking everything we want no matter who we hurt... Our species sucks.

they look like ninjas

Now that this out in the media i bet a missionary is going to go out and teach them about god; or the discovery channel is going to want to study them. :(

Quick, send in the Christian missionaries!!! Instill doubt, self loathing and fear and don't forget the measel infected blankets!

We can bring them into this civilized society as soon as we civilize this society. God only knows when this world will be civilized enough to to stop kiling each other for self gain. Once we have become enlightened enough to realize killing is wron then bring them in, until then work on your own tribes.

does any one know what the dude in the red is painted

I say we let them be.

Star Trek has an interesting concept called the Prime Directive. It's prime usage is to not interfere with species that have yet to obtain Warp capabilities. It also prohibits Starfleet personal from giving technology that will make them more advance than others that are within their system or same planet. The point is to not impose on a culture that has been doing fine prior to being contacted.

This is no different other than it's on Earth and not another planet. We have a duty to let them be who they are. It is the outcry of th world to be allowed to be who you are without someone telling you're wrong this is the right way.

I even feel taking pictures of them is an intrusion upon their lives. I feel guilty just looking at them. How awing it is to see that in 2008 there are people who live in tribes. It's fantastic.

No wonder they are throwing spears, with these pictures all over the world every wannabe explorer and his blog will be packing there bags.

To hell with bird flu this lot won't survive the common cold.

Now all the corporation has to do is figure out how to get them to trade their lands for a handful of beads and trinkets, then cut down their forest for profit. After that send in the missionaries to cleanse their minds of their sins... pffft here we go again.

people people PEOPLE!!!

NO we should not fuck with them. They are the harmonious. They are the sustainable. Shit, we should be WORSHIPPING THEM!!! At the very least we should hold them to the HIGHEST REGARD OF HUMAN SUSTAINABILITY, and thus, HOLY!!!

I think we have a winner for the Tribes contest :)

now it is time to teach them Christianity, and how to be "civilized." J/K

Anyone found them on google maps? :D

I hope these pictures are real. I like the idea of completely different worlds simultaneously existing on this same planet.

Brazil is going to flood acres of rain forest. we r scrwed. Just like them.

betterwatching, while i can see good intentions in your comments, they are also very ethnocentric, these people may want their way of life and no other. What if they only believe in their tribal medicine and tools, then we ended up exposing them for nothing. Is it not "fucked" to change other peoples lifestyles so one could force even helpful advancements on someone else so we may feel like we helped?

just remember keeping them out of the loop because we feel guilty is no different than forcing them into the loop because we feel like we are leaving them out.

Survivorman should be canceled and these guys should air on TV. Pronto.

Sorry- but sooner or later these people will have to be contacted. How fucked is it to leave them out of the loop of incredible advancements happening around the globe?

Doesn't it seem selfish to keep them primitive because were feeling guilty about what happened to these types of tribes in the past?? Couldn't we do these people right by providing them the right to education, improving their way of life, and keeping their land?

Someone needs to let these people know about the upcoming new iPhone.

(This comment is a shameless rip off.)

I got sad looking at these pictures. thanks.....

I agree, these tribes should be left alone. It reminds me of another story of some of the Mexican indigenous populations in hard to reach mountainous areas being subjected to American missionaries actually air-dropping packages of propoganda into their communities. Disgraceful.

"Holy shit it's a giant mosquito!" - Them.

Not so isolated now!

Leave them alone, don't expose them to this wicked world. They are probably happy with no taxex, no politicians, no energy problems, no homocides, no drugs, no muggings, no pollution etc. Lucky people. I'll bet Bushie wants to go in and show them democracy.(LOL)

Leave them alone... Anyone who is not engulfed in the world's complex web of corruption deserves to continue to live in peace

most likely a helicopter they're shooting at.

Giant mechanical mosquito.

You really have to wonder what is going thru the minds of the people in that picture- I mean they have likely NOT ever seen an airplane so close before, so they probably think it's some kinda bird!