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Stone Age Indian Tribes in Amazon.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:13 am
by Minimalist
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/world ... ner=EXCITE
Far more Indian groups than previously thought are surviving in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest isolated from the outside world, but they risk destruction at the hands of encroaching loggers and miners, experts said Wednesday.
Now this is what I call a confirmed bachelor!
Envoys from the National Indian Foundation have for years tried to contact a man in Rondonia, a state in the southwestern Amazon forest, because he is believed to be the last survivor of his tribe.
They tried to introduce him to an Indian woman to procreate. But the Hole Indian, as he is called because he lives on branches over a hole, shot arrows at them, sending the potential bride running.
Confirmed bachelor
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:34 pm
by Cognito
They probably sent the bride on the left:
I would start flinging arrows, too!
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:38 pm
by Charlie Hatchett
They tried to introduce him to an Indian woman to procreate. But the Hole Indian, as he is called because he lives on branches over a hole, shot arrows at them, sending the potential bride running.
I would start flinging arrows, too!
That's hilarious.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:52 pm
by Minimalist
Hell, Cogs....I'd fling anything I happened to have handy.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:29 pm
by marduk
this national indian foundation sounds like a hell of a dating service
If youre all on your own in the middle of the Amazon they'll fly you out a chick just so you can screw her
no restaurant, chocolates, or flowers required
where do I sign up
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:52 pm
by Beagle
This week the federal police and the government’s environmental protection agency are to remove hundreds of illegal settlers who invaded the Uru Eu Wau Wau indigenous territory in Rondonia, where uncontacted groups live.
“If we don’t expel the invaders now, those Indians won’t survive,” said Rogério Vargas Motta, an environmentalist.
I imagine that these isolated groups are still highly susceptible to our viruses.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:02 pm
by Minimalist
That explains the arrows.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:10 pm
by Beagle
Who knows, I guess it's possible that these Natives are aware that the white man brings death by disease.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:14 pm
by Minimalist
It's been five centuries.....one would think that the survivors would have made the connection by now!