am i the only one who thinks this is propaganda made by those against illegal deforestation? i mean cmon.....

PEOPLE. WE SHOULD LEAVE THEM ALONE. THATS THERE WAY OF LIFE. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN CULTURE. WE SHOULD LEAVE THEM ALONE.

hahaha!! Do you think they even know that mere pictures of them have generated so much discussion? They remain blissfully unaware, so I say, let them be. Enjoy their pictures, respect their culture and privacy and go on with our lives!!

uncontacted from this turbulent and bad world

leave them alone guys!!!

regarding #80's comment
"And to Miss Vegan Love Child Hippie (#62) who probably drives a beat up old VW van that emits more toxins per mile than it gets miles to the gallon, push your van to the nearest blockbuster "
Why so hostile towards people who don't eat or drive the way you do? The old vw van emits less toxins and uses less gas than the suv you might be driving around with.

The last sentence:
"For crying out loud, this just a stupid blog and its not as if these tribe members are gonna pick up a laptop anytime soon and get all indignant about it!"

really highlights the lack of understanding of the portent of the previous comments as well as of the pictures themselves.

Forget the coke bottle. Throw them some shampoo and a calendar. I can't believe how people can think inbreeding and stomach parasites is somehow the sure path to Eden. I doubt you'd feel the same way if you came across toothless hillbillies. These people are suffering from isolation. Sure, they might suffer more in the modern world, but only as a result of not being able to cope. Not because nudity and ignorance are preferrable to being aware that there's a world outside of the jungle. I hate to break it to everyone but lack of immunity among certains peoples is why some of us are presently communicating digitally and some of us are picking nits off ourselves and eating them. It's evolution, baby.

Also, I'd hate to know that looking down on me right now from outer space is an advanced people thinking, "Aw, let's leave 'em alone, guys. They're just too quaint and peaceful running around naked and blowing themselves up with primitive nuclear weapons. Aw, look they're trying to communicate with radiowaves."

How come they can be left alone in isolation, without adhering to the laws of the land and it's okay? Why should they be protected from outside contact? Who knows how grotesque their culture and rituals might be.

Polygamist Mormon sects in Texas have their own way of life and culture as well…

I agree with #98, and think that we should give them the choice to join the modern world or not - neither "force" it on them nor leave them alone. To anyone who thinks that these people live an idyllic and pure life, you're deluding yourself. Pre-modern life is brutish and short (although the scenery is quite lovely). With inbreeding, no medicine and limited/no agriculture, people tend to be hungry and diseased. It's not any way to live.

Guys, have a sense of humor... What is great about these photos is that is shows us that the world is not always what we think of it. I am sure that NOW they are not reacting the same way to this aerial invasion... they may even have a sense of humor about it too. Maybe they wanted to get that large bird down there to share some tomato soap......

Being a photographer, I am amazed, and want to know more about them but I would opt to leave them alone.

Being a normal, grounded person though can't help but want to toss out a coke bottle :)

This fly-over has probably changed their cosmology forever

Somehow the posts have become more interesting than the photograph. From a Sociologist's point of view, this gives more insight than viewing pics of people going about their lives. People are very interesting, but I think the ones that get on here and rant at each other say more about the world than the ones shooting arrows at the big noisy thing in the sky.

This tribe is just one of over a 100 uncontacted tribes around the world, all of them facing huge threats to their land, livelihoods and, ultimately, lives. For more info on this - for more photos, some video footage and stories about the issue - have a look at http://www.survival-international.org/campaigns/uncontactedtribes.

One of the few things known about tribes like this is their preference for living in isolation and until they make it clear they want contact, they should be left alone to live on what is their land (as, in theory, recognised by international law) in their own way, rather than having that decision made for them by governments, companies, wildcat loggers and miners and whoever else who want to take their land and will force contact with them in order to do so. And contact is almost always catastrophic: it is common, in Amazonia, for more than 50% of a newly-contacted tribe in to die because of their vulnerability to outsiders' diseases - even the common cold.

This isn't about 'preserving' the tribes or 'freezing' them in some kind of time warp, nor is it about denying them 'modernity', nor is it about saying they shouldn't ever have contact. It's about respecting the way they live and giving them the time and space to make decisions for themselves about how they interact with the rest of us.

I had no idea such primative life still existed... I realize they are saying "go away" with their bow and arrows, but it still looks hilarious!

you all have to find the movie "the Gods must be crazy" It made you really think about our lifestyle.To put down some one ,about the coke-comment,when you have not seen the movie is just ignorant. Make war over the distruction and poisoning of the enviroment,not oil or ideology!

re 105..
Why is seeing a culture different than your own, which is wanting to protect themselves in the only way they know how, "hilarious"?

What is funny about people struggling, or suffering?
What is hilarious about human beings being bothered?

this pictures are invasion of privacy.

Leave them alone and undefiled by the increasing baseness in our civilization these days.

They are true survivors.

Part of me says leave them alone and then I think about the women and children. What if they have sick rituals where they rape women and sacrifice children? In that case they may need to be questioned and then stopped.

READ THE STORY PEOPLE, click here

As to the "American" exploitation and similar comments about these photos and people - read the article (*link above). This fly-over and the report was issued by a gov't agency of Brazil. Why must you all assume that it was American? Read the story before you speak your uninformed drivel.

Please....before any more people make negative comments about the "COKE BOTTLE", please take the time to rent the 1980 movie titled:

THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY
Directed by: Jamie Uys

If you can't find the movie - at least google the movie title and read a little bit about the plot before you make un-informed comments.

Here's the link to the info page about the movie on the Internet Movie Database website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/

Why be a non-conformist like everyone else?. Or if that's too scary, at least begin to look for ways to think for yourself instead of joining the crowd.

I think is amazing that there could be "uncontacted" peoples somewhere on the Earth in this day and age. Humankind's need to see what is over the horizon (for as long as there have been humans) hasn't reached everywhere is amazing. Either "us" reaching them or they wondering what is over THEIR horizon and stumbling into a larger village.

We bemoan our children's lack of academic education in the U.S. a lot. What we fail to understand is that their cultural education is also important. That way when someone says "toss them a Coke bottle" they know it is a reference to a MOVIE and not a literal suggestion to toss a Coke bottle out of an aircraft. My kids may not be on the honor roll, but they won't be making fools of themselves on a public message board by getting their knickers inappropriately knotted up.

Wow... just wow...

I think the black-painted figure (the one on the right in the last picture) is a woman. As it appears the rest of the women and children are hiding, I wonder if this woman has a special role in the tribe? Something ceremonial? She's not armed but does hold some sort of thingy in some pictures.

#52 Get over it

@18 Just like we trying (or hoping) to shoot down UFOs with missiles or watever. u never know :)

I wonder what Indiana jones would do? ----- you can pay me later Mr. Lucas....

I think that it is a crying shame that the majority if not all of the comments above are evidently from Americans in the US - why is it that so many of you feel that the US is the centre of the universe and that therefore you must impose your distorted notion of civilization on to another people, tribe, nation or country.

Please - get your own house in order first. Is it any wonder that so many people across the world hate and despise America, Americans and all thing American. There are other ways, ideas and cultures that have equally and in many respects better answers to life and how to live it.

Until recently only 7% of Americans had passports (and this has only recently changed because you now need one to visit your neighbours) - so it is no surprise that so many of you are unaware of other ways of doing things. Before you decide what is good for others go - 'Travel with an open mind and see how other people, neighbourhoods and nations do things' - without saying or thinking "awe you should do it like we do back home". And that does not mean only going to countries where they will accept the US$ and speak some form of English. Travel to a land where you have to speak a different language to begin to be understood - and you do not have to learn that language before you go. You can learn a lot when you do not understand the local tongue.

Leave them along - until they decide to venture out of the forest.

Those guys are lucky. I hope they won't be contacted by anyone for as long as possible.

Welcome to the jungle, we've got fun and games...

To all the people who left negative comments....and you all know who you are:

GROW UP!!!....EDUCATE YOURSELF and STOP BEING SO DAMN IMMATURE!!!

SO THAT'S WHERE THE tango man WENT ...... I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR HIM.... HE OWES ME .....

Wow, I am FLOORED by the lack of common sense and humor of people on this site! Since when did joking around become so taboo? Its really almost sad that people can't find humor anymore because of politically correct morons or religious freaks these days. Why do you have to suck the fun out of everything?

Even if you didn't have the intelligence to know the movie "The Gods Must be Crazy" even an idiot would know that the commenter was not intending for somebody to actually throw a coke bottle at them.

Remove whatever is spikey and hard from your a$$ and learn to laugh! Life is much more enjoyable that way, trust me. Oh and people might not think you're such uptight prudes.

and to make up for the lack of relevance on this post: Those pictures are amazing, its almost humbling to know that there are still people out there who live such lives uninterupted by modern society!

This is the 'noble savage' we admired for centuries: headhunters, cannibals, etc. This is what happens when civilized people are left to themselves in a forest.
Just like our own American Indian who caused stampedes of hundreds of buffalo by burning dry grasslands, tkaing a few buffalo and abandoning the hundreds of carcasses behind them-talk about conservationism. These same Indians eviscerated their enemies, like other local tribes, to prevent them entry into the world-to-come. Welcome to real history.

#125 Laura, you're exactly right. There are so many self-righteous comments on here! It's amazing that the self-righteous types see themselves as the bastion of goodness in a world gone evil, and what are they doing? Screaming their heads off at people who are making less-than-100%-serious comments! "Uh oh, someone quoted something from a movie - look out, he's destroying an alien culture! Must be an American, since that's the way Americans are on TV!"

#120 Dude, it sounds more like you need to come visit America, find someone who isn't in a business suit, talk to them, then be floored by the unbelievable knowledge that he or she is pretty much the same as you. We go to work, we chill with our friends and families, we bitch about the ruling class, then we do it all over again. I know you watch George Bush on TV and you think, "Americans are insane!!!" Listen man, we have a ruling class who decides how everything gets done. It's just the same as it is in your country. If we could change it without bloodshed, we would, alright? So just chill.

Now, having said all that... I'm grabbing my PlayStation 3 and heading down there right now... I'm going to SAVE those people and none of you can stop me!!!!!!!!!!

In the third or so photo one is clearly holding a Machete...doubt he forged it himself. There was some contact somewhere alo0ng the way.

My understanding is that this tribe is so primitive, they are still using dial-up.

Hey Kyle...I think Guitar Hero III is the way to go, but make sure to bring 2 guitars...competition always brings out the best in everybody.

In fact, I'll met you there, I was going to run to Abercrombie real quick and buy them all some logo shirts, they deserve only the best in American consumerism!

Laura - #125 - I love you! :D You are a bright light in this world of darkness. The darkness being people who are stuck up snobs with no common sense and no sense of humor.

These pictures are incredible - I'm sitting here typing on a laptop surrounded by fancy computer equipment talking to people all over the world, and the people in the pictures have to hunt for food. Humans have set foot upon the Moon, and there are still people who use rocks as weapons (because that is the best that they can do).

Wow.

Go Laura! (#125).

Oh yeah... and the photos are excellent.

i think we should preserve them and keep them away from civilation

Send them Jehova's Witnesses and film it

Makes me want to play Diablo 2.

generally, the more you hate a thing, the less you understand it.

if you hate americans, it's probably because you haven't talked to very many in person and you have NO IDEA what we mean, think, or feel when we use idioms and colloquial terms -- you get your mass information through a filtered media with its own agenda (just like we do!) which is full of half truths (read: LIES) meant to inflame sentiments and sell headlines.

if you hate technology, it's probably because you understand too many narrow aspects of our current, globally tangible state and too few broad aspects of the creative motive entwined within the hearts of all humans to prosper towards ideals. technology and civilization are mere tools to that end; they are imperfect, incomplete and disposable.

what a profound contrast to realize this small culture has no such talking-heads to sway their inter-personal connections.

and since WHEN did ANYONE on this forum become the spokesperson for this tribe as to whether they are seeking isolation or contact? reading most of these comments makes my head spin. seriously, get over your self-righteous opinions; you don't know this culture at all.

I absolutely agree with Leilani. And would like to add..... all of you who would say "leave them be" without even knowing a thing about what they seek, need, or have should be forced to live in a grass hut under a freeway over pass with none of the advancements made in medicine and technology. How awful of you to offhandedly suggest that progress should be limited to them alone. Let them choose. I mean... these are human beings.... not a newly discovered bacteria or species of animal. They would obviously be capable of understanding and choosing. Maybe you would like to put a fence around them so nothing can get in or out..... sheesh

Does anyone know where the exact coordinates of the camps of these uncontacted people are? I would like to see them on Google Earth, just to get a sense of how close other settlements are and what the state of the rain forest around them is like...

By the way, these people should be left alone until they themselves choose otherwise. If they truly want contact, I'm sure they have scouted the jungle deep enough to know where the nearest "white" settlements are. They would have at least visited them at night or something. The fact that they're pointing arrows at us means "leave us alone"!

In my wildest imagination, those pictures of the so called UNCONTACTED TRIBES seems not true.I believe in their long years in the jungle they have HISTORY passed on by their ancestors from one generation to another.Moving from place to place inside the jungle means that they are aware o f others existence.They have language, system in survival, etc., they are creatures that made them adapt with the life in the forest.I am sure they talk and asking how to mingle and how to adopt others tribe ways of life.Who knows they think of us like other tribes just few kilometers away.
Why not the government of Brazil form a commission to help those tribes.Careful studies will help us to come closer to them and will learn more about them and vice versa.Let say...send group of misionaries, bring them the tools like shovels, picks, rakes,varieties of fruit seeds and vegetables,.... they need hem to survive in the jungle if they dont want to move closer to our so called civilized society,Easier said than done but if we really want them to survive we should share to them the BENEFIT of every inventions ever made for us be they simple or technical.There is nothing funny about them, they deserve help.Remember hundreds of TRIBES are existing in deep jungle of Amazon that needs help, those pictured were only but few.

Thats really scary!!
Im pretty scared to sleep at night now.

Do their huts have WI-FI?

I'd like to see the Verizon guy walk through there.

just remind me a song named "Earth song". check it out!

you people are all nuts.
instead of focusing on the pictures you become bitter and comment on your comments and all kind of bs, i even saw someone that mentioned 9-11, and american education, wth?

Oh life would be so simple; no 50+ hours at the office, no paying taxes, no two hour round trip to work.
These people may not be the most fortunate compared to some but to some they have the "life"!

Read about the HOAX! It's not true, afterall!

the red ones have a low power left, i think the black one is there head leader he has still full power.

This whole thing was a hoax. Check it out here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/21/amazon

We should give them education, manners and home.

I am disgusted at the comments made by some of you! It is amazing that "we" claim to be such a great country but yet we make fun of what "we" know nothing about. Don't kid yourself-----you are no more "civilized" then whatever notiion you have about them!

I am horrified that someone would suggest throwing a Coke down there. How can you be so insensitive?
We can't have Western Society infecting this untainted culture with obesity!!!

Better to throw a Diet Coke.

Get off your high horses and grow a sense of humor. Until then I'll keep drinking.
Comment on the pictures, not the comments.

wow! i think some ppl should just go there and invade the tribe.... its time they get with the program

#151, didn't you just do the opposite of what you said. you just commented on a comment. Why don't you do yourself a favor and read ALL of the comments, and realize that about 10 people before me have stated that the "COKE" comment was not an insult, rather a reference from a very informative movie about civilization called, "The Gods Must Be Crazy". EVERYONE PLEASE LEAVE THE COKE COMMENT ALONE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS REFERRING TO! You're making yourself look silly.

How about that coke comment? Eh....

It's really funny how everyone was getting so angry about making jokes about a thing that actually turned out to be a hoax made by a stupid environmentalist lying to "better portray the truth." Anyone ever read "The State of Fear."

NOTHING is too sacred to make jokes about. Getting offended is the dumbest of all human emotion. Being offended equals being uptight and conservative. For all of you offended liberals making comments up above, you look as dumb as conservatives. Do yourselves all a favor and learn to laugh and vote Libertarian.

This comment is directed at all you people who are saying things like "we're the savages, they're the smart ones" and posters like #23. The "honorable savage" stereotype is disgusting and the most inaccurate mindset possible. Stop romanticizing people seen in these photos. They are known to war with other tribes... when was the last time you killed your neighbors? Computer-using civilizations are materialistic and debased in many ways, but do you reach for a shotgun and grenades when some people from the next town over drive through?

The lives of people in those photos are full of happiness, sadness, disappointment, pride, drama, difficulty, and love, JUST like ours. Just with much, much more violence.

At our prayer meeting today something was shared that I had to come home and search just to see if by chance I might find what had been seen.
I don’t know what it is about the Amazon Basin, The End of The Spear, Mincyea and all the Lord does in that area but I had to try to find the sight.
As the Lord had it, first try out and first sight on the search resulted in the sight. Becky never even mentioned the website she had been to. She only mentioned what one of the pictures looked like.
It grabbed me real hard. It hurt. I wanted to do something. I felt deep heartache and sorrow for the lostness.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/05/uncontacted_tribe_photographed.html

Is that my Congo? My heart connects. There is so much compassion.
I’m a mess right now.

The garbage commentary was such trash heap of banter compare to the remote separation and yet possible “sinners” ignorance those people in the forest might stand by way of saving grace as the rocks declare the glory of a living God who gave His only Son, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance and live eternally.
When trees are no more, the grass fade, and the flowers wither the Word of God will stand forever, then and only then will every knee bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. He alone lives. He alone has conquered the grave. There they are, people just like you and I once were. People that make wrong choices suffer the consequences and cry out for justice all the while complaining because things are not fair. What the soul longs for is justice because there is a just God that will settle all accounts. He has settles our penalty of wrong having done nothing Himself. How fair was that for Him?

Do those people know that? Do you?
I’m glad God is not fair, were that the case, it would be up to be a completely imperfect person to undo everything I ever did wrong.
God pardons at His expense. I am blessed by accepting the gift of life He grants if only I will choose to trust Him with my life.
Do these people know that? Do you?

It seems to me with all the commentary of what to do with unreached people groups the obvious has been missed.
All I read is commentary on what someone should do or not do have I missed the questions?
That to me seems the obvious; not what someone should do… rather what did you see?
What will you do?
There is a reason for these photos, there is a reason for these words. Every moment has its opportunity to impact eternity.
How will you use it?
This is my moment, these are my questions are you really any different than the person in the picture?
Is your spear raised to a God watching you whom you will not let near?
Was it really about a plane?

More than Conqueror in Christ Jesus!

To #156, V A Davis,
I respect your stance and your enthusiasm to seize the moment for Christ here. But I think you took this one over the top. Please don't let your emotions get the best of you here, and think also with your mind. I too am a devout Christian, however if you read all of the comments and not just the ones that move you to preach, you will see that 1) the coke comments (or in your words, the "garbage commentary") was not a degrading comment towards these people, please see the other comments that say this was a reference to an informative movie. Learn to laugh. and 2) This story was not 100% true in the sense of them being "uncontacted". A few comments point to the real story (whether it was a hoax or not). These people have been in contact with civilization, but have chose to still live this way. Who are we to choose how they live? I gather from your comments that you intend to do something about this so-called tribe. Why? Why intervene? Do you not think God will take care of the situation?

I realize you just came from a highly spiritual experience like a prayer meeting, but please don't think you have to take everything to the extreme and change the world now. Learn to laugh a little.

Wow, it's so fascinating how they attack the plane as it flies over. And a couple of them ARE actually red and black. The red seems like it could be paint, and is still close to the color of the others, but what's up with the black? How odd.

And V.A. Davis, stop it. You are the deluded one. I do not doubt there is something that exists beyond our current world, but your personified God, an figure in the sky who acts with regard to his creation humanity, is not it. Figure out why it is you feel a need to believe in an "other" that will take care of and save you, and then dismantle the insecurities that led to it. Then you'll see you have only your own integrity to rely on.

amazing. LET THEM BE

Photo of Amazon Tribe Not a Hoax

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080624-amazon-tribe.html

wow this is amazing i never knew there were tribes still in the world that were unknown and didnt know what the world aroud them was like...they should be left in peace to live how they want its there tradition and i think its spectacular the rainforests must be saved!!

So many comments bourne of the worst kind of ignornance on this board before the hoax was claimed.A shocking statistic that speaks for itself ... well done to the hoaxter I say

To all the people who are glamorizing and idolizing so-called "primitive" cultures while bashing what is commonly known as "western" civilization: Who are you arguing against? Why are you assuming someone is trying to assimilate these people to western culture? Per the AP....

"The photos were taken to prove to the Peruvian government that the Brazilian tribe exists because there have been challenges controlling illegal logging near the border and the logging might be pushing Peruvian tribes into Brazil and into conflict over resources with Brazilian tribes, Watson said."

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Also - don't assume the stupid comments are from Americans just because this blog is hosted by an American median company. America produces a large volume of high-quality media, that doesn't mean all the people consuming the media are from America!

The issue here is that illegal logging may harm the local environment of these people and potentially cause a decrease in fertility rates.

I really like this blog, but I think the comments section falls on the lower end of the intelligence scale. Most blogs carry two types of comments:

1 - Comments written after investigating the noted references or performing a quick web search of the issue/topic. This takes about 3 minutes.

2 - Comments based on the emotional reaction and pre-disposed opinion of the reader.

While I thoroughly enjoy it, the format of this blog seems to lend itself to the latter type of commenting.

And I would definitely throw a coke bottle out the window (if you've made it this far into the comments without navigating to IMDB or Google to understand what this means, then you probably already posted a #1 type comment so screw you)
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" # 11 )Leave them alone, they are far better off then if they adapted to our so called civilization.
Posted by Rich June 5, 08 10:00 AM "

This is the best comment i read in this whole bunch of cr*p.....you all are so uncivilized that you think that the world is all about your little iPod and laptop....don't get me wrong i have those too but at least i respect their culture whatever it is..you think it's funny how they look at a plane...you should have seen our faces when we first saw something called a laptop or an iPod or an iPhone...for them they think they are living alone...what if aliens came from other planets and watched us from above....wouldn't we point our cannons and M16 to them?!?!..and trust me they are happier, more peaceful, calmer, and definitely live a lot longer than anyone of us living in this huge cage called the city.......

I think people ought to recognise that they're people in the world who are not infected with TV dinners, air condition, war, pain and hatred. The tribe in this picture are happy as they are, who are we to infect them with our ways.... our fast moving ways. I hope no one will try to go in and destroy their way of life and culture , or even take their wealth, whatever it may be. The affluent in society love to do that. So if anyone reads this remember they are also men and women GOD created, and if no one is willing to help, or love them for who they are then...... PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO READ THIS , LEAVE THEM ALONE..... They too need privacy...

they live… and a probably a very nice live… money break that… the truth is like that ;)… free mind… free live… the last beauty of this world is at this place… not in our countrys.

Can you imagine how scary that must have been for them? Some strange, loud, shiny thing flying through the air.

in fact, there is a rumor that the govenment knows about them since 1903. Just havent photographed them, until that day.

By the way, I´m from Brazil.

I would hope these people are not taken from the jungle for their "protection". Native peoples have never been successfuly introduced into society in South America, or anywhere else for that matter. I truely hope they fight to their last drop of blood to keep their way of life. It may seem harsh but, it would be a far better death than dying of some simple flu or cold because you have never encountered such a disease in your peoples history. LEAVE THEM ALONE.

All I can say is that I hope globalisation never ever reaches them...

I think we're doing something wrong here...

We are taking the joking and gags too personally, too reactively, instead of having some humor about the situation and comment in a reasonable way. I mean, wouldn't it be better if , instead of saying "how immature these Americans that view this blog and comment are", or "LEAVE THEM ALONE YOU SO-CALLED CIVILIZED ONES", and that sort of things, we just comment our ideas freely, thinking about what other fellows say, respond to their comments if we want to, but not insulting or provoking them? Because what we do with that is to only stir the air and cause the relation between us to disrupt.

I know these tribal people are better without us, or maybe not. You can't definitively tell. I mean, maybe that’s your idea, or that’s other ones idea. But what you cannot do is to react that way to others’ thinking, because that in fact demonstrates a lack of temperance and manners, and most importantly, denotes lack of civilization, or whatever.

I am not some powerful supreme being that knows one way or the other what the result would be if the people photographed were, for example, given some labour saving tools and/or communication kit. I don't know if this was a hoax or not - although it all did look like a scene from a movie. Perhaps because movies are like reality? It's ok, I know they may not be, so no lecture please!

Maybe it is non PC, but what if women and girl kids are living primitive lives with no power over their own destiny? Are we supposed to take reponsibility for libeating them? What if they were poor families in UK or US? There are very many people living deprived lives, so should we just leave them to beat wives and kids, using all the welfare money for booze and fags? Just hope someone replies.

#122, haha tango men lol
#124 haha guns n roses lol classic
#142 "can you hear me now?" lol
#127 lol the playstation part was funny!!!

all these are # are funny if you havent gotten a chance to read them, hilarious!!! nice people!!! haha
Laura -#125 you rock, point heard-point understood. now if we can get the rest to listen right?
and for the record am not ignorant, i just have a sense of humor!

cause the truth is that the people who ARE talking seriously, have very valid points--JUST LET THEM BE...

They like the way they are used to so why not leave them free...............

that guys is look at us ha ha they are searching others without knowing thierown

If you don't give them chance to educate their kids, civilization will kill them sooner or later.

If you don't give them chance to educate their kids, civilization will kill them sooner or later.

You can tell their social status by their color. Did you notice all the red ones are the aggressive ones, aiming their weapons and shooting. The orange ones have weapons but aren't as aggressive, just holding the weapons...some aiming. The black ones are unarmed, just standing around.

They have to be converted to Christians and taught our capitalist & democratic way! Otherwise they could become part of axis of evil...

how interesting..... For those guys, the plane was mere a gigantic fly trying to harm them.... and when its gone they are saved...

These guys are one of the hot talk of the blogs, and thier pictures are all around the world. and they doesn't know this ...............

Really interesting ....

i think the pictures r amazing. but u guys neeed to realize that they just need to be left alone. and i dont think this was a hoax. i think the guy that discovered them truly didnt know they existed til then and didnt know they had already been "discovered" by somebody else. so CHILL!!!!

I can't believe that some of you automatically assume that they're cannibals. Don't be so closed minded. I wonder what life for them is like.... If we did contact them, imagine how that would feel-learning about this crazy globalized world going on around them...

What this uncontacted tribe needs is Jesus, not civilization or isolation. If they are like the other tribes in the Amazon Basin, they live in constant fear because of their Animistic religions. If only they could HEAR and understand John 3:16.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life."
These pictures have definitely sparked my prayer for them and the other uncontacted tribes that do not know the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ.

#184, your jesuit statement implying forced christianity disgusts me.

Broaden your horizons; what you need is an account that does not depend on any particular conception of the good, that does not presuppose the superiority of one way of life over others, this goes the same for belief systems. Only a justification neutral among ends could preserve the resolve not to favor any particular ends or to impose on a culture a preferred way of life. But what sort of justification could this be? How is it possible to affirm certain liberties and rights as fundamental without embracing some vision of the good life, without endorsing some ends over others? What's to say your perception of religion as any better than these people? Of course YOU have been appointed by God to save the 'barbaric cultures' of the world. Look to the transcendent force that you ascribe to and tell me why would a benevelent god be condemning these people to hell since the beggining of time, waiting for a missionary of 'your' status to save them from damnation?

It was your type of thought that was the leading factor to destruction of grand civilizations such as the Aztecs. This civilization may well fade from existance under your 'west is the best' exposure. Your ignorance knows no bounds...

The helicopter is terrorizing these people, plain and simple.

So many comments from adolescent-level immaturity and tiny minds. To think it's anyone's "right" to just walk in there and change things parallels the kind of thinking that allows a person to walk up onto your carport and steal your car, but that wouldn't be funny at all, would it?

Some people are so eager to scream out "leave those people alone", and some people are crazy enough to say that we are "terrorizing these people". I will take a crazy guess that majority of the comments left here were by people that leave in North America and those that are not should be able to figure out what I'm saying anyways...

SO, my question is this. Has it ever occured to any of you, that if Columbus left us "savages" alone when he arived in AmericaIt's a nat on his big ship, that probably looked as bizzar to our ancestors as the helicopter does to this tribe, YOU would NOT be sitting in front of a computer screen, voicing some stupid opinion like "Don't you think these people would contact us if they wanted to be bothered?"

It's a natural progression of life and why wouldn't you contact tribes like this? I'm certain that there is plenty we can teach each other. The argument of keeping their culture and so on, of course, but not because they choose to, because they just don't know any better!!! If you saw this picture on your computer, while eating a microwave dinner, watching TV, updating your iPod, and texting someone from the letest model blackberry; and than said screw this, I want to live like these people, you paint yourself red and go join them in the jungle, THAN yes, you chose to be that way, but until than that's the only way they know and they probably pray every day to their God to show them a way to EASIER life.

Like most tribes, they probably have the most fulfilling life possible and are in contact with God, and live WITH God, so if they have been praying for an easy way of life for all this time, and they are that connected with Earth, I am sure they have exactly what they want. We killed most of the natives everywhere else, and call other cultures primative. Look at us? We are committing suicide. Whether we do it slowly, or just get right to the point, if you look at our society you will see that as a whole, we have a serious mental problem, were diseased, we're in denial of ourselves living. Just living as human beings, having a close relationship that all that surrounds us, and would protect us if we asked. Who cares about rituals they have, even if they do involve sacrifice. That is there own fucking business. That's why they are still sustaining a life they know, even now, in all the madness of the world. We have the same attitude as when we killed 90% of the natives in Norh America....and people are talking about evolving? Who needs technology, something so primitive, when shamans of tribes can speak directly with higher beings without any cell phone or computer. The possibilites are endless, and if we focused our minds on being the creative beings we are, there would probably be a big bang inside each and every one of us over night.

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Leave God where he is, and these people where they are. Keep the tree cutters away, and all the helicopters of the world too, with the people in them as well, whatever good intentions they have... I think that what these "primitive" might meet is not God, but preachers who will have no better idea than put on them bras and shorts... This way they will look like true children of God, won't they? Next come the burning of cultural items, or rather their collecting for high prized auction sales (missions must be self sufficient, or maybe preachers accounts!). And then the tribe will be "reserved" from the outside and hostile world, parked on a ever shrinking territory, and they will prosper in such a wonderful world... Before taking care of these people, let's take a good and better care of similar "natives" in other parts of the world; ie in Asia, Africa and Americas... maybe on our doorstep too.

Agree with DABURON and megan, although I don't believe in Gods and higher beings. We should leave them alone. It just might happen that we are the on the brink of total collapse. There is nothing sustainable in the way we live. And from that perspective we can learn much more from them than we can give to them. Some people say we should give them choice. Bud did they ask themselves if we have any choice? I would pick a much more sustainable way of life but I actually have very limited options of doing so...

woooow sh*t it must be scary to be them and watch that helicopter pass by.

they must believe it's from a different planet, from a different time, maybe even believe that we contain any answers! maybe that we created them or want to use them! it must be like us observing an UFO. would we want the UFO to land and to explain something to us using intelligent communication? I would, if it came with peace.

but knowing history, greater civilizations never greet people like these with kindness or good intentions.

leave them.

:( that's so sad- they'll never find out.