Tribe in Hiding From the World
In both newspapers I read today (NZ Herald and The Waikato Times) there was mention of a rainforest community which faces threat from civilisation. Both articles had photographs showing their primitive style living. Reading through some recent bookmarks in Diigo I found a link to this story online which you might want to read – Incredible pictures of one of Earth’s last uncontacted tribes firing bows and arrows
It is extraordinary to think that, in 2008, there remain about a hundred groups of people, scattered over the Earth, who know nothing of our world and we nothing of theirs, save a handful of brief encounters.
The uncontacted tribes, which are located in the jungles of South America, New Guinea and a remote and the beautiful and remote North Sentinel island in the Indian Ocean (the inhabitants of which have also responded to attempts at contact with extreme aggression) all have one thing in common – they want to be left alone.
And for good reason. The history of contact, between indigenous tribes and the outside world, has always been an unhappy one.
