The obligatory freaky double deaky lost Brazilian tribe photos
posted at 4:11 pm on May 30, 2008 by Allahpundit
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The amazing pics are among the most viewed on Yahoo News, with good reason: This is as close to that “Invaders” episode of the Twilight Zone as we’re ever going to get. Here’s the money shot, in which Red One and Red Two defend the black widow in the back there from the imperialist colonial tyranny of the Brazilian chopper:
A government official took an arrow in the face from one of them when he got too close a few years ago. The stakes:
“First contact is often completely catastrophic for “uncontacted” tribes. It’s not unusual for 50 percent of the tribe to die in months after first contact,” said Miriam Ross, a campaigner with the Indian rights group Survival International. “They don’t generally have immunity to diseases common to outside society. Colds and flu that aren’t usually fatal to us can completely wipe them out.”
Loggers and developers are inching ever closer. Exit question: What’s the answer? Some sort of nature preserve where you wall off a certain number of square miles on each side? Or is Brazil really going to move in and let the microbes take care of business here?
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reminds me of the Nintendo game “pikmin”
RMC1618 on May 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM
They really should work hard to protect these indigenous peoples.
Hey, were these the same tribes in the Indiana Jones movie? No, I think that was a different country.
Snidely Whiplash on May 30, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Ah, a preview of how we will live once carbon rationing comes into effect.
Maxx on May 30, 2008 at 4:17 PM
I suppose Bush will want to turn their society into a democracy.
aengus on May 30, 2008 at 4:17 PM
I don’t know, but if they got bows that’ll take down a
, I say sign ‘em up for the military.
Hollowpoint on May 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Tribalism in its most organic form….where we are headed back to with the libs.
jp on May 30, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Those are the Democrat superdelegates.
JammieWearingFool on May 30, 2008 at 4:19 PM
We all know Darwin’s opinion of the matter.
Beo on May 30, 2008 at 4:19 PM
I say leave them alone. Else, within a few months, they will be having debates about gay marriage and carbon credits, and who would wish that on any tribe?
Think_b4_speaking on May 30, 2008 at 4:20 PM
I don’t know about that, but now that these people have been found, you can bet Democrats are going to want their back taxes.
Maxx on May 30, 2008 at 4:20 PM
I’m skeptical about this statement.
blink on May 30, 2008 at 4:21 PM
why not put them in a Zoo?
jp on May 30, 2008 at 4:21 PM
Oh no! “Insurgents”!
SpencerFan on May 30, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Will the government “save” them from their poverty (they don’t even have toilets!) and give them free medical care? Or are we going to just watch them like some ant colony? And what’s with the one in the gorilla suit?
crosspatch on May 30, 2008 at 4:23 PM
They’re probably just a bunch of college students who got lost during spring break.
Socratease on May 30, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Reservations. Worked here didn’t it?
Brat on May 30, 2008 at 4:24 PM
this reminds me of the rainforest episode on Southpark
jp on May 30, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Has anybody ask them who they support for the Democratic nomination yet?
Maxx on May 30, 2008 at 4:24 PM
the red ones are actually members of Al Qaeda!
RMC1618 on May 30, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Or Obama’s secret superdelegates?
Brat on May 30, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Hmm, does anyone else smell a “Meadeian” (as in Margaret) scam?
SteveMG on May 30, 2008 at 4:26 PM
I bet they are polygamists. We should take all their children away.
SailorDave on May 30, 2008 at 4:27 PM
As you should be. Loggers don’t move in inches, they move in miles.
knat on May 30, 2008 at 4:27 PM
The FLDS even have chapters down in Brazil…
Hey, leave these guys alone, a no fly zone, an enviormental buffer zone, and only one Grateful Dead concert year.
right2bright on May 30, 2008 at 4:28 PM
they could illegally immigrate to the US and do jobs americans just wont do. maybe build huts for the homeless and teach them how to live off the land…
jp on May 30, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Texas CPS is probably on it’s way to save the tribe children.
MT on May 30, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Worked out great for Japan and Germany.
We could do the compassionate thing and build em a few Indian casino’s, that should make them self sufficent.
RobertInAustin on May 30, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Exactly.
When they throw out the numbers that we evil infidels use 3-4 times the average person in the rest of the world. Keep in mind these folks were figured into the average.
Won’t life be grand when society has leveled halfway between the 3 bed/ 2 bath/ 2 car family and the 1 grass hut/ 2 spear chucking/ 3 family dwelling?!
cntrlfrk on May 30, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Beat me to it. :-)
MT on May 30, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Quagmire.
Matticus Finch on May 30, 2008 at 4:31 PM
More pics and explanations of the body paint.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7427417.stm
Brat on May 30, 2008 at 4:32 PM
While we make jokes about the tribe, somewhere, in a dark room, Janet “Rambo” Reno is putting on her war paint.
RMC1618 on May 30, 2008 at 4:32 PM
I had two choices: either a Texas CPS quip or an allusion to Apocalypse Now. I went with the briefer option.
SailorDave on May 30, 2008 at 4:34 PM
About the microbes. . . .how well do they florish or not after contact? I mean I bet common colds tend to kill an amount every year or so.
- The Cat
MirCat on May 30, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Ths solution… send them off to work in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.
Was that so hard? What is the matter with you people?
AndrewsDad on May 30, 2008 at 4:35 PM
The only question I have:
Do the females walk around with their naughty parts hanging out?
If so, do whatever it takes to save em.
If not, meh.
lorien1973 on May 30, 2008 at 4:35 PM
This is seriously one of the funniest things I’ve read on here in a long time lol
ballz2wallz on May 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM
They should be gotten out of there and introduced to modern life and its benefits, like innoculations, dentistry, anti-parasite therapy, and so on. Leaving them like they are is to treat them like animals.
Akzed on May 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM
Send in Ann Coulter to convert them all to Christianity.
Mark1971 on May 30, 2008 at 4:38 PM
They are so brave…instead of running from something that must look terrifying to them, they stand their ground and defend themselves…awesome!
I hope that there will be a way to leave them alone.
surrounded on May 30, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Exactly my thought. Do they vote on which neighboring tribe to invade for the weekly cannibalistic raid?
If not, we need to invade immediately.
bayam on May 30, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Hey the guy in the back looks like he might be the missing link. Evolutionist cheer up.
Maxx on May 30, 2008 at 4:38 PM
I hear these pics were taken by a guy named Krippendorf.
rivlax on May 30, 2008 at 4:38 PM
I totally agree.
lorien1973 on May 30, 2008 at 4:41 PM
How much fun would it be to prank that group? Be prepared to dodge arrows and spears for sure but I can’t imagine anything funnier then having a guy dressed as a space alien parachute out of the chopper. Chaos!
Zetterson on May 30, 2008 at 4:41 PM
“Damn big mosquito… could be good eatin’ tho…”
max1 on May 30, 2008 at 4:41 PM
If so, then one thing is certain. The babe in the back is getting laid.
MikeZero on May 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Do I smell another environmental hoax here?
Maxx on May 30, 2008 at 4:43 PM
There is nothing wrong with introducing these people to civilization. Besides some pie-in-the-sky blather about protecting their “innocence”, what’s wrong with letting this tribe enjoy a steady reliable supply of food, clean water, modern sanitation practices, modes of communication and current medical practice?
As someone suggested, are they to become the equivalent of an ant farm or a zoo exhibit? Why shouldn’t they be allowed to join civilization?
thegreatbeast on May 30, 2008 at 4:44 PM
HAHAHAHAAAHAHA!
In all seriousness. Didn’t I see these people on Gilligan’s Island?
kcd on May 30, 2008 at 4:45 PM
I second this! I was moved to see these pictures. I say leave them alone and let them live their lives the way they have for the last thousand years or so.
Pulchritudinous Patriot on May 30, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Why shouldn’t they be allowed to join civilization?
thegreatbeast on May 30, 2008 at 4:44 PM
they already have a civilization… ethnocentric much beast?
max1 on May 30, 2008 at 4:47 PM
What if they don’t want to join civilization? It’s all relative anyway…one mans primitive society is another advanced society.
Pulchritudinous Patriot on May 30, 2008 at 4:48 PM
My liberal friend from Equador sent me the MSNBC/Reuters link to this story this morning with the subject line: “Leave us alone…”
My friend is very anti-civilization-capitalism like most good liberals. I thought HA readers would dig the article and how Reuters uses this to say that over-development will make unknown tribes extinct, like they’re some sort of animal or we’re back in the days of Christopher Columbus. There are lots of native tribes that have been touched by civilization and it hasn’t made any of them extinct.
Liberal Think: Toilets bad. Digging a hole in the ground outside your hut good.
Sultry Beauty on May 30, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Only a matter of time before the ACLU has them suing the U.S. for Global Warming turning them all red and black and such.
saltydogg14 on May 30, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Have the Yankees sent a scout yet?
SailorDave on May 30, 2008 at 4:49 PM
I think it is very arrogant to advocate “protecting” these uncontacted people to preserve their “pristine” existence. I have been in remote areas on the border with Peru and Brazil and seen groups in the Amazon who may not have been “uncontacted” but they were certainly “barely-contacted”. The living conditions are horrible with extremely high infant mortality rates and unbelievably low life expectancy. Who is the arrogant authority that decides these people should remain living in abject squalor. Humans want to improve their condition and to keep people in some isolated petri dish to maintain their unchosen “mud-age” lifestyle would be the height of arrogance.
Richard Disney on May 30, 2008 at 4:51 PM
For some reason, this reminds me of an episode of Trippin’.
km on May 30, 2008 at 4:51 PM
There are lots of native tribes that have been touched by civilization and it hasn’t made any of them extinct.
Wrong, it’s made lots of them extinct. probably most of them.
max1 on May 30, 2008 at 4:52 PM
What’s the big white blob on the ground (appears near top of red2’s bow)??? It looks WAAAYYY too much like the big white blob seen recently on Mars….
innominatus on May 30, 2008 at 4:52 PM
What’s the big white blob on the ground (appears near top of red2’s bow)??? It looks WAAAYYY too much like the big white blob seen recently on Mars….
innominatus on May 30, 2008 at 4:52 PM
probably cotton
max1 on May 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Like in The Village?
newton on May 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM
The spin on this story is obviously designed to tug at our environmental heart strings. I don’t suppose there could be a simple solution like the loggers just move around them could there? I mean, has this tribe got the only trees left in the forest?
Maxx on May 30, 2008 at 4:54 PM
I’d hate to say it, but doesn’t this make Medved’s belief in Bigfoot a little more possible?
This also illustrates Mankind’s over-inflated ego, “We’ve catalogued ALL of the species on planet Earth!”
omnipotent on May 30, 2008 at 4:55 PM
Hey, AP, looks like you beat them to iPhone ownership.
Ok, I’m done now.
SailorDave on May 30, 2008 at 4:55 PM
I think, Richard Disney, that it’s as equally ignorant to force them into moderninity. Yes, humans do want to improve themselves, hence their society, whatever it may be. I see shelter, weapons for protection and hunting, cotton, which means they can make cloth. It’s not as if they are sleeping on tree branches!
Leave them alone, let them discover society, not the other way around.
Pulchritudinous Patriot on May 30, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Perfect, SB. Just on more item:
“This is Al Gore, and I approve this message”.
Entelechy on May 30, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Thats it! They are really aliens from mars. They haven’t been discovered until now and this “primitive tribe” business, is their cover. ; )
kcd on May 30, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Yes, cotton.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7427417.stm
Brat on May 30, 2008 at 4:59 PM
These people need to be sent to Trinity Church in Chicago for some education on reparations, trepidations and exasperations.
The black widow is comin’ home….to roost!!!!
Hening on May 30, 2008 at 5:00 PM
“Progress Can Kill“, says Survival International.
forest on May 30, 2008 at 5:00 PM
I should have added, though, while Al Gore lives in the poshest of conditions and with the most sophisticated toilets.
Entelechy on May 30, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Thats awesome
Zetterson on May 30, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Algor poops?!
kcd on May 30, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Says who? Where do you come up with this? What majority of tribes have gone extinct? Do you know what the word extinct means?
How about this: I know a person who has the blood line of a very small tribe. This blood line is fine and strong beyond your little anthropologists understanding. How do I know? Because I happen to be that person, and I have two male offspring. We are hardly extinct but, I’m sure, by your standards we might as well be.
I can prove my heritage too. My mother had documentation that she felt would allow her entrance into “The Daughters of the Revolution”. It turns out the little gem of this blood line disqualified her.
Please give facts and figures before you start sparking off.
Sultry Beauty on May 30, 2008 at 5:05 PM
Send in Buraq Obama for some unconditional presidential diplomacy. Maybe he could convince them to abandon bronze production and their advanced spear-making program.
Or maybe he’d wind up in their cooking pot. Either result would be fine.
Cicero43 on May 30, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Pfffffffftttttttt…..leave them alone? In what universe?
Missionaries of every flavor are probably on their way.
Besides, where do you draw the line? Is the Amazon to be another Dog Island?
Limerick on May 30, 2008 at 5:07 PM
I don’t understand how some societies never evolve beyond the bare minimum of food, shelter and sex.
If they haven’t discovered it yet, what makes you think they ever will?
Besides, you’re not just talking about TV, toilets and guns. In the modern world, people live longer and have healthier lives. These people will be in contact with civilization eventually, likely by loggers with bad intentions. Isn’t it better if we go in peacefully taking as much caution as possible to ensure they aren’t killed by our diseases?
Esthier on May 30, 2008 at 5:08 PM
HAHAHAHA!! Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Barack-a-bones
kcd on May 30, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Am I the only one tempted to fly over them and drop them a Coke bottle?
fusionaddict on May 30, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Esthier on May 30, 2008 at 5:08 PM
My God! A “man” paradise!
kcd on May 30, 2008 at 5:10 PM
Somewhere, a billion miles away, an alien species is having the same debate.
Zetterson on May 30, 2008 at 5:12 PM
“Uncontacted” unless you count the shiny, roaring devil-bird hovering over their hovels…
It does make one wonder anew, though, what it was that sparked the idea of progress and moved some of the world into the present, while other pockets of humanity have remained socially unchanged since the stone age. I’m guessing higher levels of population and lower levels of tribal isolation were probably key.
Blacklake on May 30, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Shades of the Tasaday.
easy on May 30, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Maybe they should be put on the endangered species list. That will save them.
Dollayo on May 30, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Please give facts and figures before you start sparking off.
I can prove my heritage too.
Sultry Beauty on May 30, 2008 at 5:05 PM
maybe you should open a casino then….
you want to quibble over the meaning of “extinct”? Well, technically we’re all human and our species is not…
I think you are maybe confusing the “extinction” of a culture, which is the danger here, rather than the “bloodline” of a tribe…
max1 on May 30, 2008 at 5:14 PM
How about a couple of machine guns. That could be interesting. Might help them with the whole hunting thing. I doubt they would ever look at their spears the same way again.
Zetterson on May 30, 2008 at 5:15 PM
LOL
inviolet on May 30, 2008 at 5:17 PM
They way things are going, I think sometimes it might be nice to live in isolation. Just think…they have no idea who Nancy Polosi or Harry reid are. Sigh…isolation does have its pros.
kcd on May 30, 2008 at 5:17 PM
If there are highly advanced altruistic aliens out there studying us, then they should come over and say hi. I can’t imagine anyone would be upset at the prospect of being introduced into a society we didn’t know exists.
Only for the alphas.
Esthier on May 30, 2008 at 5:17 PM
My husband used to feel the same way during his senior year of high school. He talked repeatedly about living away from civilization and becoming an eskimo.
It’s probably my fault he changed his mind.
Esthier on May 30, 2008 at 5:19 PM
Better drop instruction booklets in their language or the learning curve would ensure some of them never look at anything again, period.
inviolet on May 30, 2008 at 5:19 PM
Right hand side, middle of picture…looks like a direct tv antenna.
right2bright on May 30, 2008 at 5:19 PM
Arrows?! But I thought all Indigenous Peoples were naturally peaceful, and violence was brought to all others only by Europeans.
eeyore on May 30, 2008 at 5:19 PM
That and probably war.
Esthier on May 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM
Read Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. It attempts to answer that very question, and the conclusions aren’t what you’d expect.
Cicero43 on May 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM
Someone should sneak in there at night and leave a wheel, or a metal tool.
jaime on May 30, 2008 at 5:22 PM
Interesting.
Esthier on May 30, 2008 at 5:23 PM
Hey maybe one is reading this blog right now because he likes the dude posts and caught your comment. You just provided them with the moral authority to come forward and contact us. Our lives will never be the same! Is that good? I guess it depends. I hope they are exactly like us, just all female with hereditary nymphomania. Niiice. Awesome alien babes.
Man I need to get out of here and call it a weekend.
Zetterson on May 30, 2008 at 5:23 PM
LEAVE THE VILLAGERS ALONE! All you people want is more, more, more! Leave them alone! If you have a problem with them, you deal with me! I mean it!
paul006 on May 30, 2008 at 5:24 PM
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