tribe

[certainthings]

On MuchMusic this morning they were talking about the "Undiscovered Tribe In Amazon Photographed From Plane", which obviously has now been discovered, but still. Kinda neat.

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[drvsilla.livejournal.com]

It is neat, but I am half afraid for this tribe. While I await infiltration of "unmanned" secret cameras and such. :/ Hopefully they'll be left undisturbed but I dunno- seems a lot to resist.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Exactly, what I'm thinking. I mean on the one hand it'd be interesting to learn how they've gone this long without being discovered or getting themselves all modernized, however if all that happened, chances are they'd get all modernized and that would, well, ruin their livelihood.

[tabularassa.livejournal.com]

Cool. I love those kinds of things. *iz geek*

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

It is pretty awesome.

[mooyoo.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the weirdest news? I never really thought that there actually could be people and tribes and entire communities and cultures out there till undiscovered by the general population, who've had no contact with the outside world. The pictures are so wild.

[mooyoo.livejournal.com]

From what I've read about it, it seems like the reason they were even discovered was because researchers have been trying to protect this area of the Amazon from illegal logging and destruction. The researchers who photographed them say they want to protect the tribe and their land and livlihood, so it seems there's more danger from loggers and people tearing up the forest.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I mean how is it even possible?

[keeplistening.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I saw that on the AOL homepage the other day and I still have the article open in a tab. How awesome is it that there are still tribes of people that haven't modernized? I can't even imagine living like that, and how they have managed to stay so completely isolated for all of these years.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

It really is mindboggling, eh?