Uncontacted tribe seen in Peruvian Amazon where loggers are active
Uncontacted tribe seen in Peruvian Amazon where loggers are active
Mashco Piro sighted coming out of rainforest more frequently, apparently moving away from loggers
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Well... there goes another group of people who will die from Western diseases sometime soon. If previous encounters with similar groups by loggers are any indication, they might get some revenge first.
"Uncontacted", in this instance, is more like "They're talking to other indigenous folks in the vicinity once every couple of years and it is generally known that they want to be left alone so Peru doesn't insist on issuing everyone ID cards and considers them sovereign regarding criminal law and stuff".
They're already resistant against the usual bugs and as far as illegal loggers, poachers etc. are concerned: Those don't give a rat's arse about whether a tribe wants to be left alone or not. Or whether whoever they come across is indigenous or not.
Or, they'll straight up murder them if they get in the way or resist. They don't give a fuck about who or what lives there. They will extract the resources they want and move on to the next spot.
Diseases? The last group we knew of in Brazil died from bullets from illegal miners.
The most Western of diseases: lead poisoning.
I’m not sure gunpowder is the thing you wanna try and argue is a western invention
They never said it was, but it certainly is a Western disease at this point