Amazonian tribes that live deep in the Peruvian Rainforest have been forced to move out and seek help due to illegal logging and drug trafficking happening in the area. There have been various sightings along the border between Brazil and Peru, and according to a member of a native tribe there, they asked for weapons and allies.
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Despite FUNAI, the National Indian Foundation of Brazil, warning against contact with these indigenous tribe, many people seem to be ignoring this, and contacting them anyways. The problem of contact with indigenous tribes is that something as simple as a flu or a cold can wipe out a large population of a single tribe. Many people have been seen giving them food and clothing, with the intentions to help them, but they don’t know that those items contain germs.
FUNAI managed to contact them twice, and the second time brought two Panoan translators to try to communicate with them. One of the indigenous tribes men tried to make contact and he “described being attacked by non-native people and many died after coming down with the flu and diphtheria”. We can see here that the indigenous tribe members have been forced to move out due non-natives, which are most likely illegal loggers and drug traffickers.
According to Anthropologist Terry Alquino, these indigenous tribes men were looking for materials such as knives and axes. He said the reason for this was because the conflict that they had with the supposed drug dealers. He said that they were in an internal war, and that is why they were searching for contact with the outside world.
Influenza epidemics have killed entire tribes in the past, and this is the reason why FUNAI is so worried about their sudden contact. After one of the first contacts, the tribe returned to the forest with the flu, and so to prevent it from spreading, FUNAI has sent a government medical team to go treat members from their tribe.
Photo: Telegraph
Despite FUNAI, the National Indian Foundation of Brazil, warning against contact with these indigenous tribe, many people seem to be ignoring this, and contacting them anyways. The problem of contact with indigenous tribes is that something as simple as a flu or a cold can wipe out a large population of a single tribe. Many people have been seen giving them food and clothing, with the intentions to help them, but they don’t know that those items contain germs.
FUNAI managed to contact them twice, and the second time brought two Panoan translators to try to communicate with them. One of the indigenous tribes men tried to make contact and he “described being attacked by non-native people and many died after coming down with the flu and diphtheria”. We can see here that the indigenous tribe members have been forced to move out due non-natives, which are most likely illegal loggers and drug traffickers.
According to Anthropologist Terry Alquino, these indigenous tribes men were looking for materials such as knives and axes. He said the reason for this was because the conflict that they had with the supposed drug dealers. He said that they were in an internal war, and that is why they were searching for contact with the outside world.
Influenza epidemics have killed entire tribes in the past, and this is the reason why FUNAI is so worried about their sudden contact. After one of the first contacts, the tribe returned to the forest with the flu, and so to prevent it from spreading, FUNAI has sent a government medical team to go treat members from their tribe.