Rare uncontacted Amazon tribe photographed from air.

[Thor]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

How much of a prick do you need to be to photograph those people without their permission. That has ######bag written on it on so many levels I cannot begin to start.

Just leave these people alone, they arent causing anyone any harm.

The people photographing them are trying to prove there are tribes out there 'uncontacted' and are actually trying to stop illegal logging and other encroachment near these people.

So these 'pricks' are trying to protect these people.

[Jayems]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Am I the only one who thinks the one in the back is suffering from "Milkman syndrome?"

[burn_baby_burn]

What I find interesting, is that these people have no idea that we exist. Obviously they think something is out there since planes are flying overhead. Yet many people around the world are viewing pictures of them and talking about them. A similar scenario exists between us and Space Aliens.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn

What I find interesting, is that these people have no idea that we exist. Obviously they think something is out there since planes are flying overhead. Yet many people around the world are viewing pictures of them and talking about them. A similar scenario exists between us and Space Aliens.

They must have had some contact with other tribes or missionaries, and know about us that way.

I spent some time in the Amazon in 1994 in Ecuador - an amazing place.

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by troutman

They must have had some contact with other tribes or missionaries, and know about us that way.

I spent some time in the Amazon in 1994 in Ecuador - an amazing place.

Apparantly some people have had some contact with Space Aliens.

[CaptainCrunch]

Some high school drop out is sitting on his lounger with no job, thinking that with a mere lighter and a generator he would become their god.

Then they would sacrifice him and throw him down a volcano, but don't tell him that.

[schnee]

Originally Posted by Jayems

Am I the only one who thinks the one in the back is suffering from "Milkman syndrome?"

Laugh!!

I think the dark one is a lawyer.

"I hear the...strange noise of your flying machine....and look up to see it approach the sun, it frightens me and I think - oh no! is your aeroplan going to crash and put out the sun? I don't know... I'm just a caveman - that's the way I think.

There is one thing I do know - your photographing of me and damaging my culture entitles our tribe to compensatory and punitive damages"

[troutman]

Originally Posted by schnee

Laugh!!

I think the dark one is a lawyer.

"I hear the...strange noise of your flying machine....and look up to see it approach the sun, it frightens me and I think - oh no! is your aeroplan going to crash and put out the sun? I don't know... I'm just a caveman - that's the way I think.

There is one thing I do know - your taking of my trees and damaging my culture entitles our tribe to compensatory and punitive damages"

I have to admit, I laughed out loud at this.

Undiscovered Amazon Lawyer

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

...I wonder what the government in Brazil does to protect them from contact...

It's called "the Amazon".

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

You would think that by now, some logger or natural resource tycoon would have gone there and swindled the land away from them. If you went there in a helicoptor armed with a few modern deviced, you would probably be a god to them.

Originally Posted by troutman

They must have had some contact with other tribes or missionaries, and know about us that way.

I don't think that some of you fully comprehend how truly vast the Amazon basin is. Picture the entire continental United States, but with only a handful of large cities and passable roads. Now picture it mostly covered in an incredibly dense forest canopy, and ringed by some of the tallest mountains in the world.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

It's called "the Amazon".




I don't think that some of you fully comprehend how truly vast the Amazon basin is. Picture the entire continental United States, but with only a handful of large cities and passable roads. Now picture it mostly covered in an incredibly dense forest canopy, and ringed by some of the tallest mountains in the world.

Sure I do. I've been there. I would still be surprised if they have not heard about us, even if they have not met us.

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Some high school drop out is sitting on his lounger with no job, thinking that with a mere lighter and a generator he would become their god.

Then they would sacrifice him and throw him down a volcano, but don't tell him that.

Such a high school drop out would do well to learn from this film.

Everything I know about the evils of meddling in the affairs of indiginous populations, I learned from early eighties movies.

[Flashpoint]

Originally Posted by Dion

You sir, are my hero of the day.

[vanisleflamesfan]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

It's called "the Amazon".

I don't think that some of you fully comprehend how truly vast the Amazon basin is. Picture the entire continental United States, but with only a handful of large cities and passable roads. Now picture it mostly covered in an incredibly dense forest canopy, and ringed by some of the tallest mountains in the world.

It is important to not confuse 'uncontacted' with 'unaware'. This group, presumably, based on the geography of where they live and those formidable looking weapons, is likely a gatherer-hunter type of economic organization. G-H groups traditionally range, out of necessity, over a large area. They would almost certainly have had contact with other groups (war, trade, inter-marriage, etc). Without exception, all 'pre-contact' G-H societies demonstrate the evidence of inter-group trade networks in their material culture, and argueably, in their non-material culture. A good example is pre-contact Plains First Nations objects that are decorated with dentallium shells from the West Coast. I would not at all be surprised to find some evidence of at least incidental contact (via trade) with the 'outside' modern culture in the material culture from this group. These people know that there are other groups, other ways of living out there somewhere.

[Otto-matic]

Dion's are better

[troutman]

This is quite an isolated area - each degree of longitude is about 100 km.

[CaptainCrunch]

"Ahem

Primitive subjects, worshippers, cheap source of labor. On Monday, I gave you fire, on Tuesday I gave you wine, On Wednesday I created Barry White. today as a gift to my loyal underlings, the George Foreman Grill."

“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

J. Robert Oppenheimer.

[wpgflamesfan]

i wonder if you can find their village on google earth

[Igottago]

Originally Posted by vanisleflamesfan

It is important to not confuse 'uncontacted' with 'unaware'. This group, presumably, based on the geography of where they live and those formidable looking weapons, is likely a gatherer-hunter type of economic organization. G-H groups traditionally range, out of necessity, over a large area. They would almost certainly have had contact with other groups (war, trade, inter-marriage, etc). Without exception, all 'pre-contact' G-H societies demonstrate the evidence of inter-group trade networks in their material culture, and argueably, in their non-material culture. A good example is pre-contact Plains First Nations objects that are decorated with dentallium shells from the West Coast. I would not at all be surprised to find some evidence of at least incidental contact (via trade) with the 'outside' modern culture in the material culture from this group. These people know that there are other groups, other ways of living out there somewhere.

That's kind of what I was thinking. If these people were unaware of any life outside their environment, and they suddently saw this helicoptor in the sky coming towards them, they could be at risk of having some type of existential meltdown. How would it affect them psychologically to suddenly find out that there is this completely huge other world out there, with people living in ways that they've never even thought of or could comprehend.

[Dynasty12]

Amazing

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by Igottago

That's kind of what I was thinking. If these people were unaware of any life outside their environment, and they suddently saw this helicoptor in the sky coming towards them, they could be at risk of having some type of existential meltdown. How would it affect them psychologically to suddenly find out that there is this completely huge other world out there, with people living in ways that they've never even thought of or could comprehend.

I dunno if I'd go that far, they were probably just thinking about how many weeks that shiny bird would feed them for. The black colored one looks like he'd be overjoyed to learn about recent developments in the toilet paper field.

EDIT: Also, speaking of primitive technology, what kind of camera were these people using to take these pictures?

EDIT2: Wow, there are orange guys too. This really is the lost Flames tribe.