About three years ago, I read an article by the same Journalist Mitra Taj reporting from the Alto Madrede Dios river in Peru.He told the reader that he had discovered a tribe forgotten and living in the "Stone-Age" and had not been approached by anyone from the 21st century!
I can remember the last article when the Mitra Taj reported that the tribes women shot a spear into the skies when a helicopter flew over. They hurruled their spears at it, as they had never seen anything like that before! People and Anthropologists went to see these people that time had forgotten. and the problem of taking them deseases became a huge problem. These deseases that we take for granted polio, smallpox, measles, killed and still does such as anthrax and now the Imola that has hit the Afican .coast! But horrors a friend had read the Evening Standard last night 9th Sept that an actavist in the Jungle protesting that the roads made by the rubber plantation had been shot!
Tragic that these people just concerned about their homeland "Big Business " solved that problem!
Very sad that for a saucepan they have risked being spotted by people nearby. There are only 600 in the area. In 1980's germs wiped out a large proportion of the tribes men. They are in two groups who move through the jungle making shelters and digging for turtle eggs, It would be such a crime that simalarily to the secrets of the benefits of certain plants in the area, we loose it all because of our greed!
The tragic thing is we can learn such a lot from these people, but destroy them in the process!
I can remember the last article when the Mitra Taj reported that the tribes women shot a spear into the skies when a helicopter flew over. They hurruled their spears at it, as they had never seen anything like that before! People and Anthropologists went to see these people that time had forgotten. and the problem of taking them deseases became a huge problem. These deseases that we take for granted polio, smallpox, measles, killed and still does such as anthrax and now the Imola that has hit the Afican .coast! But horrors a friend had read the Evening Standard last night 9th Sept that an actavist in the Jungle protesting that the roads made by the rubber plantation had been shot!
Tragic that these people just concerned about their homeland "Big Business " solved that problem!
Very sad that for a saucepan they have risked being spotted by people nearby. There are only 600 in the area. In 1980's germs wiped out a large proportion of the tribes men. They are in two groups who move through the jungle making shelters and digging for turtle eggs, It would be such a crime that simalarily to the secrets of the benefits of certain plants in the area, we loose it all because of our greed!
The tragic thing is we can learn such a lot from these people, but destroy them in the process!
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