Monday, February 7, 2011

Isolated Indians living in Western Brazil's Amazon who are in danger from loggers


Brazil is the biggest country in South America.  It also has one of the largest indigenous Indian populations in the world.  When I say indigenous tribes I am describing a people who have stayed away from conforming to our materialistic world.   Descendants of the original tribes that fled deep into the forest to avoid the Portuguese oppressors.  Some of these tribes have stayed uncontacted and choose to stay like that, because they live deep in the Amazon away from any infustructure and people.  How they have survived threw the years of European exploitation, slavery, and the “rubber boom” blows my mind.  It’s crazy to think that at the time of the arrival of Portugal the tribes were mostly nomadic people based off hunting, fishing, and gathering.  And to go untraced and unaccounted for gives a lot of credit to the sustainability and presence of mind to be one with nature.  For me to know people are living in and off nature without leaving a footprint is inspiring.  There are plenty of activist groups who spread the word about how indigenous groups are in danger; their lives should be protected from illegal loggers who want to cut their homes away, our planets rainforest, for greed and money.  The problem with the loggers making money isn’t anger me, I want everyone to eat and be able to provide for they families but there has to be importance on the earths geography, and the embodied energy that comes from cutting down acres and acres of trees that have been growing for thousands of years.  This is a recent picture from a helicopter of some uncontacted family from the Amazon near the border of Peru. 

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  1. I can't image how difficult their life will be. If the European colonization did not happen, wondering what the world will be like today.

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