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No offer of Western medicine or technology can compensate for apocalyptic destruction
The Last 'Unknown' Tribe knows enough about us
Seeded on Mon Feb 2, 2009 1:26 PM EST
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Interesting article, and far more fact filled - even if a strong element of speculation remains - than I would have thought from the presentation (here and on the blog).
The article revolves around the common misunderstanding that this Amazon rain forest tribe is "undiscovered" and puts their apparent hostility in a cultural-historical context:
<blockquote>"The Indians in the photo are probably descendants of the Tano and Aruak, people whose first substantial contact with the Western world occurred during the Amazonian rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Back then, whole tribes suffered slavery or annihilation at the hands of the rubber barons. A few groups escaped into the forest."</blockquote>
There are also "updates" about missionaries unwittingly spreading diseases, loggers cutting down mahogany trees and exporting them for huge profits, and drug traffickers using the rain forest as shipping stations.
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#1 - Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:02 PM ESTIndigenous peoples have always been exploited, enslaved, nearly annihilated, from the beginning of history.
Now that all the peoples are discovered and "assimilated",.... it's important to understand that there are still populations that are being exploited, enslaved, and nearly annihilated. And on it goes.
Instead of trying to learn from another culture (a sustainable, self-sufficient one) and respecting it, there are too many power hungry, ignorant, selfish people that only see a way to profit from it. shame. but unfortunately typical.
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