Stories tagged indigenous peoples

Remember the amazing photos from earlier this year of indigenous peoples in Peru aiming their arrows and spears at a helicopter hovering overhead? Well, it appears these folks have been displaced from their home turf in Peru to Brazil by illegal logging operations. Read all about it here.

Tags : Peru, Brazil, indigenous peoples, illegal logging

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We don't have time machines that can turn back the clock, but earlier this month the organization Survival International made contact with an Amazon River tribe that appears to have had no contact with the modern world. Photos and a full report are available here, but the link may be slow to come up as the website is experiencing heavy traffic with this big announcement. Survival International officials actually flew over the tribe's village with a small aircraft and did not have face-to-face contact with the tribe. Here's another interesting photo of the find.

Tags : south america, primative tribe, Peru, indigenous peoples, Brazil, Amazon River

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