Comments on: Making Our Future as Better Ancestors http://futurismic.com/2008/06/02/making-our-future-as-better-ancestors/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Swisher http://futurismic.com/2008/06/02/making-our-future-as-better-ancestors/comment-page-1/#comment-17451 John Swisher Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:14:30 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3365#comment-17451 The reality is that they really have no way of telling what tribe it is or what language they speak. They just made a wild guess. Sort of like Christopher Columbus thinking that the Tainos were Indians from India. Anthropologists have been trying to contact many of these tribes in the Amazon for years. What they have discovered is that THESE PEOPLE WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH US. The isolation is self imposed. For more on this subject, check out <a href="http://www.amazon-tribes.com/" rel="nofollow">Amazon Tribes.</a> Just my 2 cents. The reality is that they really have no way of telling what tribe it is or what language they speak. They just made a wild guess. Sort of like Christopher Columbus thinking that the Tainos were Indians from India. Anthropologists have been trying to contact many of these tribes in the Amazon for years. What they have discovered is that THESE PEOPLE WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH US. The isolation is self imposed. For more on this subject, check out Amazon Tribes. Just my 2 cents.

]]> By: Tom Marcinko http://futurismic.com/2008/06/02/making-our-future-as-better-ancestors/comment-page-1/#comment-15229 Tom Marcinko Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:24:42 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=3365#comment-15229 I've edited this post to replace the words "previously undiscovered" with "uncontacted." The <a HREF="http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN24332207" rel="nofollow">group that publicized the photos</a> never said the tribe was "unknown." A lot of the media jumped the gun, including me. <a HREF="http://www.survival-international.org/news/3400" rel="nofollow">Survival International</a> has more: <blockquote>What is, and remains, true, is that so far as is known these Indians have no peaceful contact with outsiders. The publication of the pictures has pushed the Peruvian government into investigating their plight, a huge step forward given that just a few months ago Peru’s President publicly questioned whether uncontacted Indians exist at all.</blockquote> I’ve edited this post to replace the words “previously undiscovered” with “uncontacted.” The group that publicized the photos never said the tribe was “unknown.” A lot of the media jumped the gun, including me.

Survival International has more:

What is, and remains, true, is that so far as is known these Indians have no peaceful contact with outsiders. The publication of the pictures has pushed the Peruvian government into investigating their plight, a huge step forward given that just a few months ago Peru’s President publicly questioned whether uncontacted Indians exist at all.

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