Mind Blowing News - indian tribe discovered in brazil

[Ganja Kirbya]

Lol known since 1910? Still, tribes like these are amazing. They act nothing like us, because if they did they'd all be dead.

Anyways, I'd love to be able to speak with one of them if it were ever possible. A peak into their culture would be fascinating.

 

[Tokermon]

so how did they get from India?

 

[southflorida]

these people if they really had no contact with the outside world...have seen airplanes and shit....maybe they thought they were gods..etc...lmao

 

[flubnutz]

i think they are just like animals...more or less....like a smart monkey..that's all

hey, i wear my monkey-hood with pride LOL

ps read the first couple of chapters of that book by napoleon chagnon i mentioned it was amazing how much they had in common even separated like that.

 

[Chamba]

there used to be a tribe in northern Thailand..they also shunned contact with outsiders, lived in groups of two dozen or so, wore no clothes at all and survived as hunter-gatherers in the rainforest. I think they were called " the Yellow leaf" people (or similar) as they used to set-up camp near clumps of banana trees, cut the leaves to make temporary shelters..when the leaves turned yellow, they moved on

in the 70's as the rainforests got smaller, eventually they were forced to live a non-nomadic life and ceased to exist as a tribe

In the 80's I remember reading about this tribe while in Thailand and was told stories about them from a hill trekking guide.....but I tried to find anything about this tribe on Google and couldn't find anything??

 

[GET MO]

Its a FAKE.

 

[PhenoMenal]

there used to be a tribe in northern Thailand..they also shunned contact with outsiders, lived in groups of two dozen or so, wore no clothes at all and survived as hunter-gatherers in the rainforest. I think they were called " the Yellow leaf" people (or similar) as they used to set-up camp near clumps of banana trees, cut the leaves to make temporary shelters..when the leaves turned yellow, they moved on

in the 70's as the rainforests got smaller, eventually they were forced to live a non-nomadic life and ceased to exist as a tribe

In the 80's I remember reading about this tribe while in Thailand and was told stories about them from a hill trekking guide.....but I tried to find anything about this tribe on Google and couldn't find anything??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mlabri
http://www.mlabri.org
"Only about 300 or fewer Mlabris remain in the world today, with some estimates as low as 100."

 

[Guest]

Go watch John Boorman's The Emerald Forest if you're interested in Amazonian tribes, great movie.

think they are just like animals...more or less....like a smart monkey..that's all

Ludicrous and ignorant statement, they are homo sapiens, same species as us and just as smart, take away our technology and we wouldn't survive long, these folks you call smart monkeys will have vast knowledge of their environment and how to use the resources around them.

Look at the Aborigines of Australia, they have no written history or knowledge, everything is verbal, but they know far more about the natural world than modern science does, they can find water where technology can't, they can travel hundreds of miles on foot to visit relatives, carrying nothing with them but a few very simple tools. Just because we don't understand their way of life very well doesn't give us the right to consider them less intelligent.

As to why they are red, they obviously painted themselves with red ochre, possibly they were in the middle of a religious ritual when the plane flew over, it's common for people to decorate themselves as part of rituals, the Celts used to paint themselves blue with Woad.

My uncle told me about the headhunters he knew when he was in Malaya and Burma during WWII, they had been in contact with the British before the war, nto undiscovered at all, but largely unaffected by the outside world, they had iron and steel blades and the odd musket, and ocassionally traded for clothes etc, but still lived on their ancestral lands in their traditional lifestyle. Then the Japanese came and began treating them very badly, they would slaughter the whole village if they thought they had been helping the british. These hill tribes have a very long warrior tradition and they fought back, the Japanese became terrified of them as they were perfectly at home in the jungle and could sneak up on a Jap, lop his head off with a pareng, steal hi rice and ammunition and rifle and be gone before anyone noticed. My uncle told me he saw many collections of Japanese heads proudly displayed by these warriors and my uncle certainly didn't consider them primitive or stupid in any way, he admired them greatly and owed his life to them as he was carried out of the Irrawaddy delta back to safety at Imphal by four of them on a litter after he was wounded, their tracking and hunting (animals or Japanese) always amazed the British Army, so I wouldn't talk down the intelligence nor resourcefulness of any indigenous people!

 

[PhenoMenal]

Look at the Aborigines of Australia, they have no written history or knowledge, everything is verbal, but they know far more about the natural world than modern science does

Aboriginals in Oz don't have paper writing as such (although they have used paperbark for numerous purposes) ... their history is in the form of paintings. Even 'lessons' have been painted in the form of art, for example at Uluru (Ayer's Rock).

I disagree that they know more about the natural world than modern science does though

 

[southflorida]

ganja pasha.....i consider some ppl in this world even dumber than fuc...ng monkeys....so that was actually a compliment to those mofos...lol

 

[nycdfan042]

How do the older tribla members deal with ED?? someone should air drop some viagra to them ASAP!

 

[sirgrassalot]

these people if they really had no contact with the outside world...have seen airplanes and shit....maybe they thought they were gods..etc...lmao

That tribe (Sentinelese)I linked on the first page are one of the most isolated of them all. Over the years they've left things for them like buckets which they'd take the red buckets but not the green ones, they buried a doll & shot a pig than buried it.

 

[thekingofNY]

someone already said it, but hate to tell you guys but that was a hoax, if i have time i'll find the news article.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23911279-23109,00.html

 

[Verite]

.. Still, tribes like these are amazing. They act nothing like us, because if they did they'd all be dead.

Anyways, I'd love to be able to speak with one of them if it were ever possible. A peak into their culture would be fascinating.

[ copy of GK's last text message to wife ]

Honey, I met the most fascinating tribe in the jungle today. I think the chief has taken a shine to me as hes asked to have me for dinner. Dont wait up I think I'll be late.