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Indigenous Nations' Games
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Agaguk replied on Wed Jul 14, 2010 @ 11:57am |
 Coolness: 57380 | Ok so I decided I wanted to be a nomad and live with various indigenous tribes around the globe so I'm doing research... And found out that there's an annual "Indigenous Nations' Games" in Brazil where 29 ethnic groups compete in tug-of-war, spear throwing, blowgun, soccer, etc.
Is it just me or this is freakin' hilarioussss!!?? As in, AMAZING! lol 
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» pogostik replied on Wed Jul 14, 2010 @ 12:28pm |
 Coolness: 34525 | wow. quite amazing! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» recoil replied on Thu Jul 15, 2010 @ 7:33am |
 Coolness: 86480 | ha. crazy
sadly, though, the people down there who are hacking and burning down the rain forests like to kill off the indigenous people too. they see them as standing in the way of expansion and the native peoples are pushed into more and more remote areas. some of them are like endangered species.. they live in such tiny communities in such remote areas, their culture could be wiped out before anyone in the outside world knows about it, along with thousands and thousands of years of accrued knowledge of traditional medicines a couple years back a plane flew over what is believed to be a "pre-contact" community and they actually fired arrows at the plane as it passed overhead =) [ news.nationalgeographic.com ] PHOTO IN THE NEWS: "Uncontacted" Tribe Seen in Amazon * Drug Wars Threaten to Wipe Out Amazon Nomads (April 27, 2007) * "Into the Amazon": Photos and More From National Geographic Magazine May 30, 2008—In a palm-hut encampment, members of an "uncontacted" Amazon tribe fire arrows at an airplane above the rain forest borderlands of Peru and Brazil earlier this month. The black and red dyes covering their bodies are made from crushed seeds and are believed to signal aggression, native-rights experts say. Released May 29, the photo—one of several (see more of the photos)—was taken by officials from Brazil's National Indian Foundation (FUNAI). (See another photo, plus video of the tribe's camp, in our in-depth look at whether this group should be contacted—and whether they're truly uncontacted in the first place.) Peruvian officials and energy interests have publicly expressed doubt that uncontacted tribes exist in the Amazon. (See "Oil Exploration in Amazon Threatens 'Unseen' Tribes" [March 21, 2008].) But the new photos are more proof that uncontacted, seminomadic tribes do exist in the increasingly threatened Amazon rain forest, according to Survival International, an international indigenous-rights group that works closely with FUNAI. "We are very confident the photos are genuine," said Miriam Ross, a spokesperson for Survival International, which estimates that half of the hundred or so uncontacted tribes in the world live in the rain forests of Brazil and Peru. Some experts say few, if any, tribes have had no outside contact. It's more likely that previous generations had negative encounters, prompting social taboos that continue to drive clans deeper into isolation. Due to their vulnerable immune systems, these groups are highly susceptible to diseases borne by outsiders such as missionaries, loggers, or oil workers. The new photos come just months after a similar one (see photo) captured apparently uncontacted natives collecting turtle eggs by a riverbank in the Peruvian Amazon, where energy development and illegal logging are on the rise. 
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Agaguk replied on Thu Jul 15, 2010 @ 8:22am |
| Coolness: 57380 | OMG!! AMAZING!!! I wanna go there!!!
yeah it's crazy how much waste we produce, just look at all the junk we all have in our homes... Plus the packages plastic/glass/metal containers we get at the grocery store. It makes me sick. I'm trying to only buy fresh produce so I don't have anything harmful to throw away, but our society is pretty fucking insensitive to the environment and most people are too selfish to think of others. We should all live like those tribes and be self sufficient. The world would be such a better place! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Trey replied on Thu Jul 15, 2010 @ 9:39am |
 Coolness: 102740 | Does it have to be the Amazon basin?
why not with Russian Asian reindeer nomads in Eastern Russia? or the natives of in around the islands of Indonesia? or the hundred of tribes in Africa in their national park reserves? or the Bedouins in the Sahara? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Agaguk replied on Thu Jul 15, 2010 @ 8:13pm |
| Coolness: 57380 | Originally Posted By TREY
Does it have to be the Amazon basin? why not with Russian Asian reindeer nomads in Eastern Russia? or the natives of in around the islands of Indonesia? or the hundred of tribes in Africa in their national park reserves? or the Bedouins in the Sahara? Oh nooooo worries, I'll get to those later... lol |
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