Peru Reveals Video of Unknown Amazon Tribe
- Posted on November 13, 2010 at 4:26pm by
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Contact with the tribe happened in the summer of 2009, but the video is just being released:
The footage was taken in the Kugapakori Nahua Nanti reserve in the country’s southeast by members of the government-run National Institute of Development of Andean, Amazonian and Afro-Peruvians (Indepa).
They saw the indigenous group while monitoring area checkpoints that have been installed to prevent entry of unauthorised persons, specifically illegal loggers.
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Comments (99)
UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 12:36amThey should be left alone to become an integral part of the protected reserve. The tribe likely has technology to survive the New Word Order, this is how you function with no currency.
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:26pmProbably the happiest people in the world until now.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 12:33amYep.
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Report Post »4theTruth
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:24pmOkpulot Taha, such anger. As a Christian, I am ashamed what has been done in God’s name in the past, but I didn’t do it. As a white person, I am ashamed of slavery, but again, I did not do it. People used the term manifest destiny to take what ever they wanted. It was wrong. In today’s world it is politically incorrect to stereotype everyone except Christians. What does what people did in the past have to do with me. What does what other people do right now have to do with my character. Or is my character defined by my religion? Stop characterizing Christians as if they are all the same. And for the tribe, there life will change. Some for the better and some for the worse. It will depend on the character of the people who they come in contact with and their determination to keep their traditions.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 1:38am4 THE TRUTH writes, “Okpulot Taha, such anger.”
Mule manure. Get over yourself. You are not a victim and nobody is victimizing you.
Okpulot Taha
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knuckle dragger
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:04pmI can hear Ward Churchill now!
Report Post »Makes you skin crawl don’t It?
JustMel71
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 10:53pmThis last sentence is what troubles me “members of the government-run National Institute of Development of Andean, Amazonian and Afro-Peruvians (Indepa).” Now that the government knows of this group, they will confront them and “impel” them to become part of the government way. In other words, this self reliant group will be no more.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 10:45pmIt seems far fetched that these people could remain isolated for all these centuries in Peru which, after all, has been widely inhabited by Europeans for about five-hundred years. But it is possible. Either this is a terrific PR stunt to increase that country’s tourism trade or these folks were LOST all this time. Hey, they do look “oriental” and that would be a clear indication that their ancestors were indeed from across the ice of the Bering Straight during the last ice-age of about 10,000 years or so ago. It’s a great story!
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 9:31pmThey tell of a ancient story when the flying god gave them a gift. Xi the great warrior had to carry the gift (which was found to be a coke bottle) the edge of the world to give it back to the gods. Or something like that.
Report Post »frgough
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 9:08pmSpot on. Let’s keep the little brown people living in primitive squalor, crying over their children dying from preventable diseases, because, you know, they make such a good zoo exhibit.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 9:08pmTaha said “Oh yes! Technology brings us smog, pollution, radioactive fallout, endangered species, genocide, war and lots of cancers among many other delightful benefits, such as big fat butts. Technology also gave us Barack Obama!”
So we should be expecting you to stop using your computer to speak to us and go back to smoke signals soon?
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 9:30pmNEO FAN eats McDonald’s hamburgers, “So we should be expecting you to stop using your computer to speak to us and go back to smoke signals soon?”
My boy tells me I keep our home fire fiercely burning. He likes my smoke signals.
Of interest, we only have half century old rotary phones in our home, but do have a touch tone in a kitchen cabinet for when needed. Our newest vehicle is a 1956 Chevy pickup truck, a real rattle trap rust bucket which would take you to the moon and back without a hiccup and on a single tank of gas.
Major tune-up for one of our trucks, which we do ourselves, costs about thirty dollars in parts. What does a tune-up for your 2007 Honda Civic cost you? Can you, personally, tune up your Honda without a need for a hundred grand worth of computer equipment?
I bet the Amish really annoy the heck out of you, NEO FAN.
I could send you smoke signals, NEO FAN, but you are illiterate in my language which is OK because I do not speak Text Messaging like you do. OMG! BFF! WTF!
Okpulot Taha
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thepatriotdave
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:58pmOk, here’s my two cents worth… Since I was a kid I always thought it would be nice if we just left these ‘previously un-known’ tribes alone. For them to have survived as a tribe for so long they must be able to thrive in their environments without any help from us. Besides, we humans have a bad habit of corrupting them in ways that we think are harmless. If these people wanted to be saved so badly they would have followed others back to civilization.
I say leave them completely alone. If someday they come to civilization for help, then we are obliged to help, if not, leave them alone. But by all means, keep the illegal loggers out of their area. Hell, keep the legal ones out to. Just leave these people alone.
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Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:49pmBet they could teach us a lot.
Report Post »Thirteenth Paladin
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:59pmLike how to dress and cut our hair?
Report Post »vic138
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:19pmI swear I saw one of the indigenous people wearing nike shoes.
Report Post »go2gym
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 6:50pmTake a good look. This is how far back our current presidential administration wants we citizens to go.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 6:31pmHey! I just saw the same thing in Washington! The tribe of Democrats were just discovered! Isolated from all America for years!
Report Post »dmyze
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 6:21pmSo should we deny these people modern conveniences? Don‘t you think some of them might want to use indoor plumbing or fly around the world and see it’s wonders? Or read the novels of Shakespeare?
I‘m not saying one way or the other but it seems to me that liberals would want to keep these people in ignorance to ’preserve’ them. While I would want to educate them.
Report Post »cmsmik
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 6:16pmOkpulot Taha,
May I ask what “Okpulot Taha and Choctaw Nation means?
Just curious.
Report Post »H2OBoardem
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:31pmChahta Okla! Chahta Yakni! Chahta Okpulot Taha!
“Choctaw People! Choctaw Land! Choctaw Crazy!”
The Choctaw are a proud, sovereign nation whose language named of the State of Oklahoma.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 8:48pmWATER BOARD THEM delights me, “Chahta Okla! Chahta Yakni! Chahta Okpulot Taha!
“Choctaw People! Choctaw Land! Choctaw Crazy!”
yukpa! hatak nipi tohbi okpulot taha!
laugh! crazy white boy!
Some annoying nonsense of mine as usual. “hatak nipi tohbi” — man meat white.
Neither traditional Indians nor our tongues suffer racial tinging. Those outside of our cultural are unaware we identify them based on meat color, literally. Our notion of meat color does not come with all those Western notions of culture, hyphenated names nor racism. Your meat is simply a certain color and there are no other connotations nor attached deep meanings. Difficult to be racist when all you see is color of meat.
This, WATER BOARD THEM, is a type of misunderstanding which will take place with this tribe in Peru making initial contact with Western peoples. Language is a barrier which both protects us and defeats us. Peru would do better to send in a team of well trained cultural anthropologists who know to observe and not to judge. Sadly, a century from now this tribe will no longer exist; they will be assimilated into whatever culture is predominate in their general region, probably a western culture.
They will be assimilated unless they know to fight back and know to preserve their culture.
Wish I could live long enough to discover if Christians will be assimilated by the Islamic.
Okpulot Taha
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Parkeralan
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:11pmChoctaw, I must say you have adapted to that written language thing very nicely, where’d you learn that?
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 12:58amPARKER ALAN asks, “Choctaw, I must say you have adapted to that written language thing very nicely, where’d you learn that?”
Couple notions, first. There are no written Indian tongues. What you read is an enunciation guide, a way of phonetically spelling our oral words. Other notion is our tongues are so simple and logical, non-speakers have a lot difficulty learning our tongues because body language, physical environment and context are critically important.
I teach Choctaw. The greatest challenge for me is having learners leave behind English and leave behind Anglo thinking. American Indian thinking is radically different than Anglo thinking, I would need to write a novel to begin to touch upon those differences in thinking.
All in our family grew up in Eagletown, Oklahoma, which is the traditional heart of our Choctaw Nation. Our home town and tiny towns around enjoy a large Choctaw population. I learned to speak Choctaw out in the fields and around our rural community. My decades of early learning is considered informal. My formal education in Choctaw is from Charley Jones who lived north of us. He is well known for teaching all things Choctaw. Almost all language courses in Choctaw are based on teachings of Charley.
Rather enjoyable to listen to him speak Choctaw with an Okie accent.
My husband and I moved to California when younger. Out here, I found and studied every book, tape, course and resource for Choctaw language I could find. My learning on our farm and in our community gave me advantage by learning traditional Choctaw compared to modern Choctaw. I learned all the cuss words and expressions you will not find in books! However, frequently I end up in arguments with modern Choctaw speakers who do not know of our traditional words. Modern Choctaw is simplified for easier understanding and does not require so much body language.
My tongue is Six Towns compared to Long Town down Mississippi way. Both tongues are basically interchangeable; almost identical. I am one of about fifteen-thousand native tongue speakers.
When I write Choctaw here on the web, in blogs, I dumb this down, keep this simple so people can visit an online Choctaw – English dictionary to look up words and understand. This helps to promote goodwill between my peoples and others.
I enjoy a duality in culture. I am raised by both Choctaw and by my Anglo grandparents. Advantage here is I can see through my traditional Indian eyes, and I can see through my Anglo eyes. This allows me to better understand both cultures for comparison and contrast.
Related to this topic at hand, I can better relate to this lost tribe in Peru with my having lived their way at times during my life along with our girl later in life. During school summer breaks, our girl and I lived either on farms in Oklahoma or on reservations of our Southwest. Taking her back to farms taught her how her father and I once lived, taking her to reservations to live taught both of us timeless traditional ways of living almost exactly like how this Peruvian tribe lives. She is fluent in Choctaw and knowledgeable in the ways of Indians. This does give her an advantage of her own in dealing with a Western World lifestyle.
Greatest mistake Western culture peoples make is thinking “Anglo” while trying to understand “Indian”. This is simply impossible. I see this mistake a number of times right here in this blog.
At heart, Parker Alan, I am simply an Okie farm girl, and we are known for being right ornery.
Nice of you to express interest in my peoples, this honors me.
Okpulot Taha
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tnalp
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 6:07pmWhat is Afro-Peruvians? Is this the same prefix we have to American” They don’t look the same.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:58pmIt’s interesting how modern society has no problems corrupting “ancient cultures” in the name of “helping” them. Then when they disappear from existence modernity is blamed as the ‘toxic substance’ that destroyed them followed by prolific curses of modern society.
Where does the line of common sense begin and end? Is it only “grave robbing” if it’s NOT “archeologists” pillaging sacred grave sites? stealing ancient antiquities for their own “scientific” purposes?
I don’t buy it. There is no “reason” for destroying cultural heritage. Period. ESPECIALLY when the cost is the irrational blame of others for the same exact thing.
Report Post »OneRepublic4us
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 9:42amI disagree. Christianity shed light on many civilizations about the value of life.
Report Post »“When the Spaniards under Hernan Cortez gazed upon the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán in Mexico in 1519,they were amazed by the scene before them. There, in the middle of a wide lake was a shimmering city with bright white walls of vast buildings sitting on an island in the middle of a large lake with causeways linked to it. The astonishment of those first Spanish visitors soon turned to horror when they saw the vast scale of ritual sacrifices made by the Aztecs.”
OneRepublic4us
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 9:50amI left out the part about cannibalism because I haven’t eaten breakfast yet……
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:49pmDemocrats will sneak them in through Arizona to illegally vote.
Report Post »benrush
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:40pmAwesome! Now academics throughout America can apply for grant money to “study” them on the taxpayer dime.
Report Post »civilunrestnow
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:27pmUMMM I call BS. Look at their haircuts…Unless they just got it cut for the camera those heads have been cut with electric trimmers..
I remember years ago someone “found” a tribe in the Phillipine Islands that didn’t have words for “war” or Fight or any other violence. It was also all a fraud
Report Post »APEXIdaho
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 6:37pmThe “tribe” they found in the Phillipines was the first thing that I thought of too.
Report Post »mom0258
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 9:30pmI remember being fascinated by the story of the “Lost Tribe”.
Behavior: Lost Tribe of the Tasaday
Time Magazine
Monday, Oct. 18, 1971
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,910112,00.html
Then it was reported to be an elaborate hoax:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Tasaday.aspx
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | 2008 | Copyright
“Tasaday: alleged band of 25 hunter-gatherers living in the Philippine rain forest, purportedly contacted by Westerners for the first time in 1971 in southern Mindanao (Cotabato Province). They reportedly lived in a cave, used stone tools, subsisted solely by foraging on wild foods, and had no knowledge of agriculture or contact with farmers. After 1974, the Philippine government strictly prohibited all contact between outsiders and the Tasaday. After the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, Western reporters returned to Cotabato and found the Tasaday living in houses in a farming village and wearing Western clothing. News accounts followed stating that the discovery of Tasaday as a band of cave-dwelling rain-forest foragers had been an elaborate hoax staged by the former presidential assistant on national minorities. (Manuel Elizalde Jr)
Specialists disagree on the matter.”
Report Post »APEXIdaho
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:12pmSpecialists disagree on the matter. In 1991 an independent anthropologist issued a report concluding that the Tasaday were probably a band of foragers who did in fact live in the Cotabato rain forest but who were not nearly as isolated as the initial reports by the government agency entrusted with their protection made them out to be. Before 1971 the Tasaday wore cloth (not leaves), secured trade goods by trading smoked meat with farming villagers, and spoke a dialect of Catoboto Manobo that was fully intelligible to the local surrounding farming villagers but slightly different from these villagers’ language. These facts suggest that the Tasaday represent the descendants of a group of Cotabato Manobo farmers who moved into the rain forest and adopted a mobile economy based on foraging, small-scale horticulture, and trade with surrounding farmers. It is unlikely that they ever lived permanently in caves. Ethnic groups practicing similar seminomadic subsistence economies are known from many parts of Southeast Asia (e.g., the Semang). Although Philippine authorities apparently initially promoted the “primitive” nature of the Tasaday band and then prevented independent specialists from properly investigating them, the Tasaday probably represent a genuine group, rather than a set of villagers recruited to take part in a hoax. The precise nature of the Tasaday band prior to 1971, however, is difficult to assess and remains controversial.
Bibliography: See T. A. Headland, ed., The Tasaday Controversy: Assessing the Evidence (1992).
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:24pmKeep loggers out? Or keep Christians out? hhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….The Lord is at work all over the world. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, right?
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:59pmDAGNEY T asks, “Keep loggers out? Or keep Christians out?”
Loggers will destroy their livelihood, Christians will destroy their lives.
I am noting the first item on a Christian agenda would be to make those people wear Christian clothing, then the sinful apple shtick.
Okpulot Taha
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heavyduty
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:18pmTo Okpulot Taha it sure seems that you have something against Christians. How would you know that the Christians would destroy their lives? Do you have proof or you just spouting off at the mouth like you usually do? I have seen men destroy lives in the name of the Lord. But they were far from Him. So I really wish you would keep your nonsense to yourself.
Report Post »workin4alivin
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:35pmdo you ever wonder why there are no windows at a jehovae witness facility???
Report Post »geminisailor
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 8:08pmHeavy Duty,
In the case of Okpulot Taha, fear always springs from ignorance, and arrogance diminishes wisdom.
It is humorous to read some of her replies though!!!
Regards
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 8:25pmHEAVY DUTY has his nylons in a knot, “How would you know that the Christians would destroy their lives?”
Well gosh, meathead, least you did not call me a left liberal this time, but I did label you “meathead” again! You should use “could” in place of “would”. What is with your “that the” usage? Dang, borderline illiteracy.
Turnabout is fair play, yes? You insult me, I insult you, but I am significantly better at this.
This is intuitive, this is common sense, this is child’s play. Any five year old out in a pasture could explain this. The moment outsiders, Christians in this case, make initial contact with with a culture, those peoples are forever changed. More important, Christians will take to imposing Christian thinking, behaviors and morals upon those peoples. This utterly destroys a culture, this is to rape a culture, is to steal away a culture’s legacy and history, “For God’s sake, slip on a blouse and cover up your teats, you heathen woman!” I am certain you noticed mothers breast feeding in this video up there. Rather disturbing for stereotypical Christians.
Here is a hint on how I know Christians destroy lives, meathead: “American Indians”.
HEAVY DUTY is insulting, “Do you have proof or you just spouting off at the mouth like you usually do?”
I should be surprised you would set yourself up for humiliation but I am not. Proof is in this blood soaking our American lands, American Indian blood. Are you smarter than a fifth grader? A rhetorical question begging “no” answer.
HEAVY DUTY is whimsically wishful, “I really wish you would keep your nonsense to yourself.”
Fat chance, meathead. Unlike you, I am an American, a patriotic American who does not hesitate to exercise her right to free speech. By-the-by, if mules were wishes your front yard would be knee deep in mule manure, just like your mind.
You, HEAVY DUTY, serve as a perfect icon of what is wrong with Christianity; you are trying to destroy my online life just as Christians destroy lives of others, in the name of God.
Okpulot Taha
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geminisailor
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:53pmOkpulot Taha…instead of wasting your precious life, along with generation after generation of the Original People of this land trying to get revenge on those who have done your people wrong, why don’t you do like us Jews who have been done wrong as well. There is a defect in revenge, “it’s all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.”
We Jews have learned from the past, no matter how much we’ve been betrayed, and we have preserved our culture, no matter how unfairly we have ever been treated throughout our history…5000 years worth or more. There are movements afoot to bring these wonderful Christians and us together and understand the differences. Forgiveness and reconciliation is in the air between us. Perhaps you, perhaps your people could consider the same? You’re an extrememly intelligent person…perhaps you could be the tool that brings the Original People to the status that they deserve in this land for their (your) success?
Best Regards
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 1:31amGEMINI SAILOR comments, “instead of wasting your precious life…trying to get revenge”
You mistake assertiveness for revenge. I will briefly explain.
Our culture is one based upon reality and confrontation. This is a reality of living ten-thousand years and more out in the wild, a very dangerous wild. Survival in the wild demands finely honed skills and a willingness to stand up in the face of impossible odds.
Our confrontational nature is traditional. We confront each other every chance possible. This keeps a sharp edge on our minds. Quick, decisive and logical thinking is a must to survive out in the wilds.
We no longer live in the wilds for the most part, some do, most of us do not. Nonetheless we both adhere to and honor our traditions which date back thousands of years before the Hebrew. We remain maddeningly pragmatic and annoyingly confrontational even in our modern times. Our ways catch Anglos off guard, take western peoples by surprise. In our view, Anglos are sissies. This is not an insult rather is pragmatic thinking which so annoys you.
Anglos are all hung up on political correctness. My peoples are not. One of our traditions is being bluntly truthful. Our viewing you as sissies is simply a blunt truth sans any intended insult. You see this as revenge. I see this as simply being truthful. This upsets Anglos, and “this” is a culturally ingrained fear of truth amongst Anglos.
Here is a truth for you to consider, Gemini Sailor. Should you be down there in Peru around this lost tribe, and you do something which is perceived as a “threat” to their tribe, those people will kill you on the spot, just as my peoples would.
Westerners view this as murder. My peoples, this tribe in Peru, do not view this as murder rather as a pragmatic and logical solution to a threat, “This person threatens our tribe, we will kill him.” Easy enough solution and a final solution. This is highly logical.
There is no revenge seeking amongst my peoples, we just scare the daylights out of Anglos.
If you want to witness real revenge seeking, you only need to look at Black America. Some may label me racist for my being pragmatic and truthful, but this will not stop me from being truthful.
You mistake assertiveness for revenge.
Okpulot Taha
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H2OBoardem
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 12:15pmOkpulot Taha, American culture could learn a lot from the Chahta Okla. Though we grew up as neighbors, I grew up knowing virtually nothing of your culture. I thought my cousin’s embracing her Tsalagi heritage was fruitless – now I know different. Too bad we (Americans as a whole) do not understand the value of what we (past tense collective) almost destroyed. I thoroughly enjoy your cultural coup counting here when we step in the mule dung. I appreciate your assertiveness, insights and honesty. … Yakoke
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 12:23pmso your the one thats been writing our children’s history books…I was wondering about that…
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 1:49pmWATER BOARD THEM (H2OBoardem) adds good interest to our discussion, “Too bad we … do not understand the value of what we … almost destroyed.”
Yours is a critical thought. Many of us, most of us, are crying out for America to return to our traditional ways. Almost all of us “tea party” types are demanding we return to our founding principles and return to our traditional American way of life. In this sense, most Americans are asking we preserve and protect our cultural legacy, which will return our national pride.
This is no different than a cultural group here in America protecting and preserving its cultural legacy.
As you know, we can be Americans and identify ourselves with a cultural group without conflict. For American Indians, we are Americans first, Indians second. My traditional peoples have fully embraced a traditional American way of life and we also embrace our traditional Indian way of life. There is no conflict there, there is no mixed loyalties; Americans first, Indians second.
WATER BOARD THEM adds, “I thought my cousin’s embracing her Tsalagi heritage was fruitless – now I know different.”
Yes, you and I have discussed this previously. Her taking pride in her Cherokee legacy does not diminish her value as an American nor separate your cousin from America. I know in my heart she remains a patriotic American, and at the same time is a prideful American Indian. This does not create conflict.
WATER BOARD THEM is polite, “I thoroughly enjoy your cultural coup counting here when we step in the mule dung.”
Ha! Ha! This has me in constant trouble here at the Blaze! There are times I am the mule dung! None of us are free of fault and no culture is free of fault. What you are suggesting is we learn from the past, and learn from all these cultures which we label “American Society”. This is good, there is always much to learn and always will be.
WATER BOARD THEM closes, “I appreciate your assertiveness, insights and honesty. … Yakoke”
Be sure many here, including me, appreciate your valuable additions to discussions. You well represent intelligent open minded people. Your willingness to truthfully critique both yourself and others is a powerful personal attribute. You honor yourself, your family and your ancestors.
You are a truth speaker. You would make a darn good Indian.
Okpulot Taha
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Johnnyp1958
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:23pmThis is how America will look like at the end of Obama’s reign
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:57pmbut unhealthy
Report Post »cmsmik
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 6:14pmneversaynever-”This is pretty cool. I think it’s nice that there are some people not caught up in all the technological crap of the new world.”
I agree! The way this country is headed, we may want to join them. Each time I watch footage of a tribe similar to this one, they just seem so peaceful and happy. It‘s like they don’t know any better.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 1:55amThis is how the greenies want us to live.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:22pmChristian missionaries will not be far behind.
I am curious how those people cut their hair.
Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
BlazingPatriot
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:37pmA hairstylist flies in each month for haircuts! …and a McDonalds is just down the street for them.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:55pmBLAZING PATRIOT holds up his weed whacker, “A hairstylist flies in each month for haircuts!”
Just to be ornery, I tell people I cut my husband’s hair with a weed whacker. His hair reaches down to his butt, a bit on the long and wild side; he looks to be a stereotypical Wild West bounty hunter.
I figure those people have razor sharp knives or are good with fire or have a pair scissors hidden away.
Too bad contact is made, their culture will never be the same. Now I am curious if precautions were taken to not import a disease into their tribe.
Okpulot Taha
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A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:33pmTechnology is always good, people. Why is this tribe looked upon as “untouched” or “clean”? Get these people some technology so they can learn their potential as human beings.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:51pmThey are all cast members of a new “reality show”.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 8:53pmA DOCTORS LABOR IS NOT MY RIGHT comments via technology, “Technology is always good, people.”
Oh yes! Technology brings us smog, pollution, radioactive fallout, endangered species, genocide, war and lots of cancers among many other delightful benefits, such as big fat butts. Technology also gave us Barack Obama!
Okpulot Taha
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frgough
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 9:04pmThey probably get it done at the local trading post. To those of you who think this some pure, pristine, untouched by evil western technology, one with nature noble savages, just recently “discovered,” I have a great deal on a bridge in brooklyn. But, then again, you probably thought Avatar was actually serious social commentary instead of infantile fantasy totally disconnected from reality.
Report Post »zukrider
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 9:35pmSame as all primitives did. Obsidian, flint ect. Those primitive knives and axes are razor sharp. Look at the clovis points in the US. Man is adaptive, no matter how primitive.
Joe
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 10:01pmSadly, they will never be the same. I read the rest of the story linked and it seems that their lifestyle is already being tampered with. Outsiders should just leave them alone. No telling how many centuries they have thrived without government entitlements and interference ……”We have photographic record and have even been able to interact with them to see how they go about their daily lives. We have been able to bring them some tools that they have used to hunt, to fish and cook,” said Capac Alatrista, (president of government-run National Institute of Development of Andean, Amazonian and Afro-Peruvians (Indepa))
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:25pm@ OKPULOT TAHA,
“Technology brings us smog, pollution …”
Not all technology brings us smog and pollution, though along with the smog and pollution, we have a fresh supply of food in the markets, and supplies in other stores, from all over the country, and even from outside the country. Otherwise inhospitable places thrive because of technology, and in spite of the smog and pollution.
“… radioactive fallout …”
This is a danger for sure. Though, I don’t have a problem chucking fuel rods into outer space.
“… endangered species …”
Humans are far more important than animals. I really don’t care about losing a few species of them.
“… genocide, war …”
While genocide and war is easier with technology, so is defense. And there has always been, and will always be, arms races. At one time, it was pointy sticks versus slings, etc., etc. Besides, with the existence of birds, it was only a matter of time before man began using guano to make explosives. So, in a way, you can blame genocide and war on nature. :P
“… and lots of cancers …”
We know we’re doing something wrong to increase the cancer rates, for sure – but I think it’s too early to tell what that is.
Technology brings us Adult Stem Cell Research, which is doing amazing things for people. Those who work with Adult Stem Cell won’t call what these cells do “cures”, as of yet, because I think they don’t want to get ahead of themselves, but what they do is incredibly amazing.
“… among many other delightful benefits, such as big fat butts …”
Technology doesn’t make people fat. But even though it makes it easier to get fat, it also makes it easier to take it off, in the form of sports equipment.
“… Technology also gave us Barack Obama!”
Ahh, but technology also gave us TheBlaze.com! Am I right? :)
Also, it allows the world to catch news about other countries and to avoid walking into Progressive/Marxist traps in the future.
Also, also (Monty Python reference), if we can get technology to North Korea, it can set the citizens free.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 12:12amA DOCTORS LABOR IS NOT MY RIGHT loves his gadgets, “Ahh, but technology also gave us TheBlaze.com!”
Yes, and a dark side is technology allows me to constantly be in your face!
Boys and their toys, girls and their curls.
Technology is generally good. How we use technology makes the difference. Nonetheless, there is living proof we can do without a lot of technology and live better and healthier. This proof is the Amish.
I sincerely do envy this lost tribe there in Peru. Life is sweet for them. People would argue this lack of modern devices, medical facilities, short life span and high infant mortality rate. None of that really matters compared to their quality of life, which is simple, clean and lacking all this stress we suffer which does shorten our lives. If I could roll back the hands of time, I would have my family living the way our Indian ancestors did a thousand years back. This would paradise, albeit a tough and demanding paradise.
I would miss my vibrating *****, though.
Okpulot Taha
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A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 1:20am*Jaw drop*
Think guiro tone blocks, but larger.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 2:11pmA DOCTORS LABOR IS NOT MY RIGHT is stunned, “Jaw drop” Think guiro tone blocks, but larger.”
Blah! Shut your pie hole and quit your drooling, boy. You will know for a million years we girls have been looking for a viable substitute for boys. With the advent of sperm banks, you boys are now an endangered species.
I asked my boy to help me build a xylophone using different length and thickness ****** for guiro blocks, “I can make feminine delight music with such a xylophone!” Hour later boys wearing white lab coats and carrying butterfly nets showed up. They did not catch me, though.
I gobbed up the insides of my boy’s cowboy boots with axle grease for payback.
Along the line of sperm banks, this Peruvian tribe must be sizable or share sperm with other tribes. My best guesstimate is a population between fifty to one-hundred at a minimum to maintain a viable birthrate, along with inter-tribal mixing it up.
Noteworthy is all appear to be slim, trim, healthy and this appears they have all their teeth. This does lead me to question the quality of our American health services and if we Americans are on the right track for good health. This tribe clearly does not suffer medical care a la America style and this does appear those tribal members are a lot more healthy than any of us.
We Americans should return to return to a lifestyle of making music on primitive guiro blocks, running around naked and fornicating like crazy. Our family is doing good, we don’t have the guiro blocks but we enjoy the other two requirements of leading a good lifestyle. We are slim, trim, healthy and have all our teeth, we must be doing something right.
Okpulot Taha
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TruthTalker
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:13pmunknown? unknown by some. known by others.
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:19pmOh great, now Acorn will try to get them to vote Dem in 2012!!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:21pm@John 7:18
Most likely they already are registered under several hundred names each.
Report Post »neversaynever
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:24pmThis is pretty cool. I think it’s nice that there are some people not caught up in all the technological crap of the new world.
Report Post »LSX
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:29pmTrumka is there, trying to unionize them.
Sharpton is there preaching racism to them.
Jesse Jackson is there, looking for another love child.
Olberman is there, giving out his business card, hoping for future viewers.
Soros is there, selling them his Open Society rhetoric
Obama is going to visit there and apologize to the tribe about how evil the USA is..
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:08pmIt’s a good thing they found them after they had their hair so cleanly cut. Oh, hey, wait a second! :P
I’m not buying it.
Report Post »SusansSS
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:43pmneversaynever – I agree. However, I don’t think they should have interacted with them. Just let them be, they’re likely much happier than most if not all of us. They don’t live by the clock, their politics are left to just the people in the tribe. Sounds pretty darned wonderful to me!
Report Post »frgough
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 8:56pm@neversaynever,
Right. Because it’s so wonderful to have to drink polluted water, deal with insect bites and disease, suffer in hot, miserable, humid weather, watch your children die from preventable diseases, and worry about whether you will starve if the hunt didn’t go well.
This “primitive is pure and noble” crap offends me no end. Primitive people are miserable people, and isolated little snobs sit in front of their computer screens in their artificially lighted homes with full bellies, refrigerated food and air conditioning and pontificate on how noble it is for some poor fellow human being to live in misery and squalor.
walkwithme1966
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 9:04pmOh great – something pure for us to corrupt – we should just leave them be in peace! http://wp.me/pYLB7-l4
Report Post »Parkeralan
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 10:43pmFRGOUGH, Great Post, funny and true!
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:02pmIt’s not a new tribe at all. That was Obama and his crew on a paid vacation,,,getting away from it all. See, the world is getting smaller and smaller and no place to ‘really’ get away from it all.
Report Post »sportlock
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 12:20am@FRGOUGH
Report Post »You seem to have forgotten the last time we introduced primitive tribes to a more modern way of life the “white man” was accused of bringing diseases and everything else to the tribes. I guess you really can’t win in the scenario can you?
watchmany2k
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 1:01amIf they truly are an “undiscovered tribe” and not just the third generation of back to naturists who forgot the world, the one thing that will bring them down is:
The electric light bulb, the inevitable bill, and the requirement of cash to pay it.
Not to mention taxes on the old hut.
Looks staged to me, where’d they get the idea of covering naked bodies?
how do they make the cloth ?
The brilliant at 7-11 has crap hanging off of all his appendages too,
his noseplugs are especially handsome.
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Report Post »WestOfThePecos
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 8:19amThis is what happened to Cuba in the 1990 after the USSR dissolved. Back to basics.
Report Post »HouseNegro
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 8:42amIf you can understand me “YA’LL RUN!!!!!”
silentwatcher
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 8:12pmundiscovered tribe, huh? Where did they get the neatly buzzed heads, t-shirts, and hemmed shorts from? they have an undiscovered WalMart in the area too?
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