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Some Isolated Tribes in the Amazon Are Initiating Contact - 0 views

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  • “controlled contact”
  • “I believe we’re going to see a succession of first contacts in the coming ten years.”
  • Tourists and locals have made videos of themselves embracing the Indians, handing them clothing and bottles of soda pop. But some of the encounters have also been deadly. In May the tribesmen killed a 22-year-old man in his village with an arrow-shot to the heart for reasons that remain unclear.
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  • ncludes controlling access to the upper reaches of the river that the Indians are known to frequent, educating nearby communities about the dangers of interaction with the Mashco-Piro, an inoculation campaign in settlements to minimize the chances of disease transmission, and fact-finding patrols
  • Peru’s official policy of “no contact,” adopted in 2006,
  • no contact” policy is modeled on the approach pioneered in the 1980s by Brazil, which harbors at least 27, and perhaps as many as 70, isolated indigenous communities,
  • Both Peru and Brazil have created networks of forest reserves and parklands to shield these tribes from the exploitation and devastating illnesses that often accompany the arrival of Western civilization
  • They believe the Indians are simply seeking more of the goods they have come to know through raids on settlements and encounters with strangers.
  • If they are seeking contact, we must welcome them in the best manner possible. We must take care of their health, block out the boundaries of their territory, give them some time to adjust to the madness of our world.
  • he violence and attendant exhaustion they suffered cleared the way for contact.”
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