Laura Ling Reports On Amazon Tribe

The long-form of this pod is that much more fascinating. Does this tribe have anything to trade? I'm assuming the fishing is for their own sustenance.

The shot of you with the girls!!...Could be your sisters/daughters!!

Mitch Koss the producer on this trip just returned from a trip to Panama with correspondent Jael De Pardo. I didnt realize the similarity until I saw both pods side by side. Whats the common denominator here? Mitch filming naked people in the jungle!

Even though so much can go wrong in this business, sometimes, the wind is metaphorically at your back. After Laura and I had spent several days with American rancher John Carter in Mato Grosso state on the southern edge of the Brazilian Amazon, John flew us in his four-seater plane into the Xingu Indigenous Preserve to meet his old friends, the Kamyura people. Because it was the beginning of the rainy season, we only had a few hours on the ground before we would have to be dodging thunderstorms and lightening strikes on the return flight. But John is an extremely perceptive guide, and Laura, almost always right in the moment as a correspondent, was particularly brilliant that morning. And the Kamyura were their memorable selves. As soon as I started rolling video, I could tell that John and Laura and the guys in the tribe were going to make something memorable... That only left the question as to what will save the relative scrap of Amazon forest that stands in the Xingu Preserve--if you look at satellite imagery over the past 20 years, you'll see that the Xingu used to be deep in the forest, but now is an island of forest surrounded by soy bean farms and cattle ranches. Assuming that Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and the Walton family don't team up to buy the remaining Amazon to keep it safe, there don't seem to be a lot of options for keeping the Kamyura from selling off their trees in the long run. One option is to encourage high-end, boutique tourism--let rich people pay a lot of money to fly into the Xingu to have the sort of experience that Laura and I did on camera. This could have the effect of compromising the indigenous cultures of the Xingu, to an extent, but it might be preferable, in the long run, to deforestation... There don't seem to be a lot of obvious answers here, and every year, a lot more forest disappears.

The first full frontal nudity on Current.

great project, i agree with the tribe, you're pretty

This was a very interesting pod to watch. Its good to see how the native tribes live but one can only imagine how quickly they will be fully introduced to modern society.

Xingu tribe is one of my most favorite tribes in the Amazon. Believe it or not the last Documentary I've seen come out about the tribes of the Amazon was about the Yanamamu. And that was shot more than 15 years ago.
Thanks for this,

Pods like these are some of my favorites on Current. Thanks so much for giving us a real live look at how the people in the amazon live on a daily basis, it's great!

this was amazing... enlightening. thanks for your great work!

Fascinating, how the modern worlds slowly infiltrates the primitive. Amazing report.
Prayers to you and your family Laura on your safe and swift return home.

i can appreciate the fact that there are still indigenious tribes throughout the world, especially in this day & age where technology & globalization is at its peek.

hopefully this tribe aquires what they need to substain their existence.

good job miss ling + crew.

money is literally causing the extinction of cultures.
so much for diversity.

good stuff.

i would not say that their culture is disappearing though. we still fish, we still have hamocks, we still play didgeridoos, we still mimic genitalia...i do think their way of life is changing rapidly though. but if indiginous peoples prefer to have tvs, tractors and other modern things doesn't that say a lot about where humanity is headed? i mean, this is happening everywhere. humanity, given the choice, prefers the modern way of life.

Probably my favorite pod/feature of yours.

I imagine some of them are hooked on YouTube by now.